Framework. EU. Notes towards Digital Literacy. Anyone who has talked to me for any length of time over the past couple of years will have been hard pressed to have avoided my growing preoccupation with the UK's digital literacy agenda, or rather, lack of one. However, while I've been talking about this a lot, I haven't made many written remarks outside of policy contributions and consultations. Hopefully this brief post will act as a marker of progress rather than just a register of the current limitations of the UK education system. A lot of progress has been made recently in terms of the e-safety agenda, for example with the publication in March of Dr. Byron's Safer Children in a Digital World, and the approval of all the reports recommendations by the UK Government, and the establishment of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) at the end of September this year. However, while it is a critical area of development and resourcing, e-safety alone is not enough.
So what is digital literacy? Digital-literacy2004-JEMH.pdf (application/pdf Object) Digital_literacy_review.pdf (application/pdf Object) UK Online Centres join open Digital Mentor bid. Networkedlearning » digital literacy and how it affects teaching. Digital literacy anyone?
The Information Literacy Section of IFLA has announced the winner of a competition to design an "information literacy" logo. The aim of creating this Logo is to make communication easier between those who carry out information literacy projects, their communities, and society in general. The Logo will be available free of charge and promoted as an international symbol of information literacy. The initial funding for the logo contest came from UNESCO, as part of the Information for All Programme (IFAP). ALA define information literacy as follows: To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.
A definition that is re-used by Wikipedia. We need to empower people with the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to embrace new technology to make the decisions that will protect themselves and their family. Doug belshaw phD. I wrote the following (c.2,400 words) today towards my Ed.D. thesis Literature Review, needing to get something written as I’ve neglected my studies for too long. It represents my current thinking, but needs fleshing out (a lot!) And tidying up. I’d very much welcome your comments if you’ve got time to read it critically… The concept of ‘literacy’ is akin to the Wittgenstinian problem surrounding the concept of a ‘game’: everyone knows what you mean when you employ the term, but pinning it down in a more formal sense is extremely difficult (Hannon, 2000:36). Simply conceiving of literacy as ‘the ability to read and write’ not only sets up a false dichotomy, but makes no allowance for reading and writing using various tools and for different purposes.
Even the Oxford English Dictionary equivocates between two definitions: ‘one who can read and write’ and ‘a liberally educated or learned person’. New knowledge is undergoing constant metamorphosis. Literacy is a social technology.