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ASET 2002: McCarthy - digital literacy - information literacy - the new literacies

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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!

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