How The Truth Was Murdered Digitally Lit #263 – 10/10/2020 Welcome back to Digitally Literate and issue #263. Let’s face it, a lot happens each week in the news. A lot of important bits and pieces. I use this space each week to take time to highlight the things you need to know and provide…
A Broken World Digitally Lit #222 – 11/16/2019 Hi all, welcome to issue #222 of Digitally Literate, thanks for stopping by. Please subscribe if you would like this to show up in your email inbox. This week I posted the following: National Council of Teachers of English Defines Literacy in a Digital Age – Last…
A Brave New Face Digitally Lit #221 – 11/9/2019 Hi all, welcome to issue #221 of Digitally Literate, thanks for stopping by. Please subscribe if you would like this to show up in your email inbox. This week I posted the following: NCTE’s Definition of Literacy in a Digital Age – Under the leadership of…
Facebook is teaming up with community colleges as part of a nationwide effort to teach digital-literacy skills to small-business leaders and others in …
News from EdSurge as Facebook is teaming up with community colleges as part of a nationwide effort to teach digital-literacy skills to small-business leaders and others in cities. Facebook’s education strategy focuses on economic enablement and job growth, as well as supporting small businesses with the skills “they need to grow.” In addition to the…
For educators, digital literacy means much more than learning to read online. Here’s a guide to understanding it.
This post is from 2016, a lifetime in Internet years. How much of this thinking has changed? While the word “literacy” alone generally refers to reading and writing skills, when you tack on the word “digital” before it, the term encompasses much, much more. Sure, reading and writing are still very much at the heart…
This past week danah boyd presented the keynote at SXSW EDU 2018. The talk is quite nuanced, and I recommend taking the time to read it. boyd talks about how critical thinking and media literacy efforts are backfiring. She surveys some media literacy programs and sees a simplistic set of assumptions about the way media could and should…