Technologist

Technologist

Digital Literacies for Teaching

Digital literacies are complex and nuanced, and there are myriad of ones to consider.  Using technology tools effectively to address specific learning challenges is just one aspect of digital literacies for teaching.  These literacies encompass the abilities to locate, use, summarize, evaluate, create, and communicate information while using digital technologies and web-based platforms. They also include the expertise to engage safely, responsibly and ethically in online communities and networks.

What does digital literacy mean to you?  How would you define digital literacy?

Explore some of the definitions of digital literacy that are linked below:

• JISC Guide to Developing Digital Literacies
• All Aboard: Digital Skills in Higher Education
• The Government of British Columbia Defines Digital Literacy
• Higher Education Academy: Digital Literacies

As you are reading the definitions, take note of ideas or competencies that resonate with your sense of what digital literacy is so that you can come up with your own definition.

Developing digital literacies is an ongoing process.  These modules are a starting point; they include resources and a set of challenges and activities, that are part of a never-ending process as we extend our digital literacies for teaching.

Extend Community

Visit the Extend Community Space Digital Literacies discussion area (in the #technologist channel) to share your definition of digital literacies for teaching and provide thoughtful insight as to how you arrived at this definition.