ASET 2002: McCarthy - digital literacy - information literacy - the new litera... - The Diigo Meta page

• 30 Oct 08
  

  Penny Taeuber

  digital literacy

  • Internet and the access it provides to vast amounts of information has raised
    concerns regarding the need for increased attention to digital literacies.
  • 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"
    • have access to a vast expanse of digital information.
    • fastest growing communications media in world history
    • Information is expanding at an unprecedented rate
    • digital divide
    • ability to locate, evaluate and effectively use the needed information
    • too much information
    • Surely the challenge now is on acquiring and developing the necessary skills to
      effectively use the information
    • World Wide Web pages at face value
    • troubling
    • students must learn to manage, retrieve and analyse information, think
      rationally and creatively, solve problems and communicate effectively.
    • technological workplace
    • 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
    • Teachers are learners in this too and must master technology in order to assist
      their students.
    • "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]
    • learned how to learn
    • prepared for lifelong learning
    • can learn from them
    • 1999.[
    • 2002
    • Computers to a large extent have overtaken sport and other leisure pursuits
    • They are mostly self taught and often find their way more by accident than
      design.
    • almost 40 years ago
    • individual help
    • • 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
    • curriculum which incorporates Information skills and Digital Literacies across
      all Learning Areas
    • With of course, no continuation in secondary schools!
    • after years of ICT and IT, it is time to teach to their future, not our past!
• 10 Jul 08
  

  doris molero

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  "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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