Monday, April 4, 2011

Digital literacy

I have been reading from the book called School reform and the school library media specialist  - Huges-Hassell and V. Harada (eds) In the article Literacy and learning in the digital world by P .Berger  she talks about digital literacy. She discusses how it requires the learner to think at a higher level. She talks about 6 aspects of this type of literacy. She calls them "navigation" which is finding you way around the net; "Context" which she refers to as seeing the connections between websites and not just looking at one site which can generate very biased information; "Focus" - students need to be encouraged to think deeply and not succumb to the distractions of being on a computer ; "skeptism" -evaluating info sources; " Ethical behaviour" - following the rules of the internet.

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