Areardon222's List: Digital Literacy

• • "...skills with the new literacies of the Internet and other Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) will become an important determinant of an engaged life in an online age (IRA, 2009; NCTE, 2008)"
• • Three issues:
    1. Literacy is now deictic; its nature and meaning continuously changes.
    2. Effective online information use requires additional online reading comprehension practices, skills, and dispositions.
    3. Misalignments in public policy, assessment, and instruction impede out ability to prepare students for the effective use of online information and communication.
• • "New technologies and social practices rapidly and repeatedly redefine what it once meant, in a simpler world, to be able to read, write, and communicate effectively."
• • "Individuals, groups, and societies who can identify the most important problems, locate useful information the fastest, critically evaluate information most effectively, synthesize information most appropriately to develop the best solutions, and then communicate these solutions to others most clearly will succeed in the challenging times that await us."

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• • "Toward this end, we have to figure out how to inject our discipline with these new tools and ways of communication as concepts such as reading, writing, listening, and speaking take on new dimensions in the media age."

• Access is no longer limited to a select few, but rather it is available to anyone who is digitally literate.
• Ubiquitous access is one reason why digital literacy is now going to be taught in American schools as we move forward. Students in our school system today will be given the keys to the information lock boxes of our society for their consumption.
• Educators who are connected use that technology to maintain relevance in the fast-paced, changing world of education. Being connected is not an add-on or a luxury for educators; it has become a necessity. We must have digitally literate educators, if we want digitally literate students. We need relevant educators in order to provide relevant teaching. We need connected educators, if we are to expect them to be life long learners and to model that for our children. Yes, we really need to have connected educators.

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• Her digital search literacy would define her ability to learn
• Kids should be expert searchers by the time they reach middle school. Anything less and we’re leaving our kids unprepared for the world they are living in today, not to mention the world they will inherit tomorrow.
• The first thing I would teach would be search. And we’d practice it every day.

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• Being tech-comfy, however, does not guarantee their proficiencies automatically grow into new and sophisticated literacies
• It is critical for institutions and organizations to pay attention to a person’s specific skills and literacies rather than submit to the notion that age or generation gives one a free membership pass into this new literacy club.
• In a time where students will do most of their reading, writing, and research across digital texts and mediums, I would argue they need these skills more than ever. And, more importantly they need us to lead them into their digital future.

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