Monday, March 4, 2013

What is digital literacy? | Connected Principals

What is digital literacy? | Connected Principals:


What is digital literacy?

CC licensed photo shared via Flickr by s@lly
CC licensed photo shared via Flickr by s@lly

Digital literacy is the topic that made the ETMOOC learning space so irresistible to me… I think as educators we spout off about wanting our students to be digitally literate, but not many of us (myself included) have a firm grasp about what that actually means, and quite a number of us are still attempting to become digitally literate ourselves.
Whatever that means.
It turns out, defining digital literacy isn’t such an easy task. The etmooc community was fortunate enough to hear Doug Belshaw speak on this topic in a recent webinar. I’ve followed Doug on Twitter for quite some time,