Tracy Parish's List: Digital Literacy

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Doug Belshaw's Ed.D. Thesis

Digital literacy is, simply put, the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and create information using digital technology. It involves a working knowledge of current high-technology, and an understanding of how it can be used. However, what I described above and the digital skills that the U.S. population utilizes the majority of the time do not exemplify a digitally literate society.

A digitally literate society is not one that simply knows how to use computers and common software applications, but is one that knows how to leverage information technology to apply knowledge, share knowledge, and attain goals and objectives.

The nonprofit will promote broadband adoption and digital literacy for all Americans by establishing a new portal to host job listings and educational content, develop a database with digital literacy classes, and help train digital literacy instructors across the country.

The curriculum is designed to be interactive, discussion filled and allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario activities. On this site you'll find a resource booklet for both educators and students that can be downloaded in PDF form, presentations to accompany the lesson and animated videos to help frame the conversation.

“Tools and Resources for increased digital literacy”  Curated by Tracy Parish

Connect to Compete is a national private and nonprofit sector partnership created to increase broadband adoption and digital literacy training in disadvantaged communities throughout the United States. The initiative is designed to help residents improve outcomes in education, health, and employment through broadband opportunities and technology solutions.

Students today have instant access to information through technology and the web, manage their own acquisition of knowledge through informal learning, and have progressed beyond consumers of content to become producers and publishers. As a result, traditional teaching and learning methods are becoming less effective at engaging students and motivating them to achieve.

Welcome to the Microsoft Digital Literacy Curriculum. The goal of Digital Literacy is to teach and assess basic computer concepts and skills so that people can use computer technology in everyday life to develop new social and economic opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities.

There are easy ways to monitor and guide what information is published about you online.

Our "Digital Footprints" research found that many Americans are jumping into the participatory Web without considering all the implications. If nothing really bad has happened to someone, they continue to neither worry about their personal information nor take steps to limit the amount of information that can be found about them online.

While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010.

While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. Although email continues to be the primary way that older users maintain contact with friends, families and colleagues, many users now rely on social network platforms to help manage their daily communications—sharing links, photos, videos, news and status updates with a growing network of contacts.

A Primer on Digital Literacy
Adapted from the book
DIGITAL LITERACY

In recent decades “literacy” has taken on new and varied definitions and has become an even more complex and contested site as “new literacies” become prominent aspects of our lives, particularly for youth and children. This conference takes up these issues within a Canadian context, where researchers are currently poised to play a vital leadership role in exploring the connections among local and global new literacy practices, defining what it means to be literate in the 21st Century, and sharing their work with a broad range of educators and policy makers.