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30 Oct 08
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Internet and the access it provides to vast amounts of information has raised concerns regarding the need for increased attention to digital literacies.
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Internet is "unproofed" information
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digital literacy is "the ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers"
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have access to a vast expanse of digital information.
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fastest growing communications media in world history
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Information is expanding at an unprecedented rate
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digital divide
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ability to locate, evaluate and effectively use the needed information
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too much information
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Surely the challenge now is on acquiring and developing the necessary skills to effectively use the information
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World Wide Web pages at face value
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troubling
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students must learn to manage, retrieve and analyse information, think rationally and creatively, solve problems and communicate effectively.
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technological workplace
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We have created a complicated city of information with superhighways for very high speed travel, without training drivers... or teaching them how to use road maps
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Teachers are learners in this too and must master technology in order to assist their students.
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"We are a generation in transition. Generally reared in a print period, but increasingly required to function electronically. We are required to teach in a way that we have never been taught."[8]
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learned how to learn
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prepared for lifelong learning
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can learn from them
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1999.[
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2002
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Computers to a large extent have overtaken sport and other leisure pursuits
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They are mostly self taught and often find their way more by accident than design.
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almost 40 years ago
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individual help
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- How to conduct a search for information
- Defining a search and the need for information including prior knowledge
- Initiating a search strategy after brainstorming ideas and defining key words
- Locating a variety of resources including human, print, digital
- Assessing and understanding information including reliability and currentness, key points and differentiating between fact and opinion
- Synthesise, analyse and organise information
- Communicate results
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curriculum which incorporates Information skills and Digital Literacies across all Learning Areas
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With of course, no continuation in secondary schools!
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after years of ICT and IT, it is time to teach to their future, not our past!
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10 Jul 08
doris moleroView highlights at: http://awurl.com/lxtkaz129501
"Teachers are excellent communicators but digital literacies need 21st century skills. Are we preparing students to live in a world we grew up in or one we cannot yet imagine?"
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