digital Literacy
Questions for planning a webpage
- What is the purpose or the goal of your webpage?
- What information do you want the reader to learn from this page?
- What content is most important (current and accurate)?
- Is there a content expert that should be represented on my webpage?
- What is the purpose or the goal of your webpage?
- What information do you want the reader to learn from this page?
- What content is most important (current and accurate)?
- Is there a content expert that should be represented on my webpage?
Questions for identifying content for the webpage:
Digital Literacy: How do we educate individuals to be able to effectively and critically find, evaluate, and compose information using a range of digital technologies? - Effectively navigate digital devices and the web to find information a. Typing skills b. Ability to use web browsers c. Productivity tools (and how to organize information into folders) d. How to be a critical consumer e. Where/ how to find free-to-use pictures - Evaluating online resources a. Determine the accuracy of content on Web sites and wikis, b. Verify the credibility of sources to avoid fake news and manipulated images ("photoshopped") c. Assessing the trustworthiness and security of online vendors, d. Recognizing phishing attacks - Composing information a. Ability to produce writings, images, audio and designs using technology b. Ability to use collaborative tools c. Cultural and Social Understanding |
Aviram & Eshet-Alkalai contend that there are five types of literacies that are encompassed in the umbrella term that is digital literacy.
Aviram, A., & Eshet-Alkalai, Y. (2006). Towards a theory of digital literacy: Three scenarios for the next steps. European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning.
Retrieved from http://www.eurodl.org/index.php?p=archives&year=2006&halfyear=1&abstract=223
- Photo-visual literacy: the ability to read and deduce information from visuals.
- Reproduction literacy: the ability to use digital technology to create a new piece of work or combine existing pieces of work together to make it your own.
- Branching literacy: the ability to successfully navigate in the non-linear medium of digital space.
- Information literacy: the ability to search, locate, assess and critically evaluate information found on the web and on-shelf in libraries.
- Socio-emotional literacy: the social and emotional aspects of being present online, whether it may be through socializing, and collaborating, or simply consuming content.
Aviram, A., & Eshet-Alkalai, Y. (2006). Towards a theory of digital literacy: Three scenarios for the next steps. European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning.
Retrieved from http://www.eurodl.org/index.php?p=archives&year=2006&halfyear=1&abstract=223
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