Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

“How did you do that?” This is a question I have been asked a few times in my career when using an element of technology in my lessons.

The thing is, this is not a reaction to my students tackling some carefully crafted web quest or using iPads to create animated video clips (simply because I don’t usually do those kind of tasks but more on that later!) It is often a reaction to my class using an app like Padlet to collaborate or Kahoot to create their own quizzes.

“I didn’t do that,” is usually my answer. “I just set it up and my students did the rest.”

“But it seems so complicated,” they continue. “I could never do something like that.”

When a teacher is reluctant to use technology in class, there are two reasons they may offer – “I don’t know much about technology,” and/or “my students are much better with tech than me so how could I teach them anything with it?”

Provides ideas and resources to inspire the strategic development of digital literacies - those capabilities which support living, learning and working in a digital society

This webinar will present case studies on how 3 university libraries in New Zealand and Australia have been working to build library staff, academic staff and student competencies in information and digital literacy.

If literacy is just ‘reading and writing’ then why has so much ink been spilled over such a simple concept? Is there just one ‘literacy’ to rule them all? Or a…

I spent a good deal of time with this excellent report this weekend, exploring the models, examples, and expert commentary on a subject that near and dear to me. The New Media Consortium first explored Digital Literacy in their 2016 report which ultimately provided some simple definitions of Digital Literacy (shown in graphic below).