This document discusses concepts of digital literacy. It provides definitions of digital literacy from Martin and Bawden that emphasize the ability to use digital tools to identify, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, analyze and synthesize digital resources. It also discusses core competencies of digital literacy like internet searching and content evaluation. The document explores how digital literacy is important in today's digital society and education, where students are digitally literate and schools need to integrate technology effectively into teaching. It concludes that digital literacy allows individuals to understand their relationship with digital tools and retain control in an era of increasing digital influence.
2. Concepts of digital literacy
“Martin’s definition of digital literacy emphasizes both its wide meaning and
the role of media: Digital Literacy is the awareness, attitude and ability of
individuals to appropriately use digital tools and facilities to identify, access,
manage, integrate, evaluate, analyse and synthesize digital resources,
construct new knowledge, create media expressions, and communicate with
others, in the context of specific life situations, in order to enable constructive
social action; and to reflect upon this process.” (Martin, 2006: 19)
3. According to Bawden the four core competencies of digital literacy are:
• internet searching,
• hypertext navigation,
• knowledge assembly,
• content evaluation. (Bawden, 2008)
4. “Digital literacy is the awareness, attitude and ability of individuals to
appropriately use digital tools and facilities to identify, access, manage,
integrate, evaluate, analyze and synthesize digital resources, construct new
knowledge, create media expressions, and communicate with others, in the
context of specific life situations, in order to enable constructive social action;
and to reflect upon this process.” (Martin, 2005, p. 135)
5. Digital literacy
It is the ability to use digital tools to create, communicate, socialize. According
to Doug Belshaw in a TED TALK channel a meme is an example of digital
literacy. A meme amplifies ideias and it is funny.
6. Digital literacy in society
“Gilster states explicitly that “no-one is asking you to give up other sources of
information just to use the Internet,” that “the Internet should be considered
one among many sources of ideas in a technological society” and that
evidence must be gathered from many sources, not just the world wide web,
for the task of “knowledge assembly.” More than this, although he gives, as
perhaps the single clearest explanation in the book, the idea that digital
literacy is “the ability to understand and use information in multiple formats
from a wide variety of sources when it is presented via computers,” he allows
that there are non-digital formats as well”. (Origins and Concepts of Digital
Literacy page 19)
7. We live today in a society surrounded by the digital, even our action
are often mediated by digital tools and objects we use in our lives are
shaped by digital intervention. The author of the text Digital Literacy
and the “Digital Society”, Allan Martin, gives as example the the MP3
player and the cellphone, which for him “are the most visible personal
artifacts of this society, whilst the PC is the ubiquitous gateway to
cyber-activity, at work and at home”. (page 151)
9. “In viewing literacy within the context of a digitally infused society as, at one
level functional, at another socially engaged, and at a third as transformative,
we can see it as a powerful tool for the individual and the group to understand
their own relationship to the digital: to be aware of the role of the digital in
their own development and to control it; to place the digital at the disposal of
their own goals and visions. Gaining a literacy of the digital is thus one means
by which the individual can retain a hold on the shape of his/her life in an era
of increasing uncertainty.” (page 156)
10. Digital literacy in education: basic
competences for teachers and
learners.
We live in a word that students come to school with smartphones, they are surrounded by the
digital. So the school need to merge with the students’ digital literacy.
11. Today the classrooms are filled with digitally-literate students, so we need a
change in education. Buying the equipment is not enough, the professor
needs a train in “computer skills to integrate technology into the curriculum
effectively”.
“The skills needed to merge the
digital world with academia”.
12. “Using many of the same skills we have used for centuries—analysis,
synthesis, and evaluation—we now must look at digital literacy as
another realm within which to apply elements of critical thinking”.
It is now enough to make students take notes from Power point presentation.
Our students are digital natives. It is not enough teachers using maps to talk
about other countries.
13. “These days, new media literacy technical skills catapult traditional
learning methods into orbit.”
Teachers today can teach a class using streaming video, not just power point,
the teacher can use real time audio video interaction with students.
“Using many of the same skills we have used for centuries—analysis,
synthesis, and evaluation—we now must look at digital literacy as
another realm within which to apply elements of critical thinking.”
14. 21st century skills
➢Digital Literacy
➢New Media Literacy
➢Information Literacy
➢Lateral Literacy: Hypermedia and thinking
➢Photo-Visual Literacy
➢Reproduction Literacy
➢Visual Literacy
15. Global impact of digital literacy
The Digital Society
“We are in a new age—the age of information and of global competition.”
(DfEE, 1998, p. 9).
“We have made the “Information Society” and the “Digital Age” for
ourselves.” (Digital Literacy and the “Digital Society” ALLAN MARTIN)
16. The digital has been a tool to help us achieve a eficcient and faster activities
that we performe, has made it possible to make things that once was
considered unimaginable and that includes the globalization itself. “Digital
technology is thus both means and symptom of social change.”
The digital provides possibilities to the individual to be creative and it helps in
the search for identity. Digital tools helps the individual to present himself to
the society (by creating blogs or personal websites, by sending e-mail, texts,
creating and sending a curriculum vitae, etc.) It also enables the individual to
interact with others.
17. Conclusion
This slide presentation it is about digital literacy , the ability to use digital tools
to create, communicate and socialize, and digital society . Our society is
surrounded by the digital and our actions are often mediated by digital tools.
And that is why it is important that schools use digital tools and takes
advantage of that. Teachers must be trained in order to use them. The global
impact of digital literacy can be seen in our society, and that is why I linked
them in this presentation.
18. Bibliographic references
Origins and Concepts of Digital Literacy - Division of Social Sciences.
Disponível em:
<whttp://pages.ucsd.edu/~bgoldfarb/comt109w10/reading/Lankshear-
Knobel_et_al-DigitalLiteracies.pdf> Acesso em: 26/08/2016
JONES, B. R, SUZANNE, L. F. Connecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st
Century. Disponível em:
<http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Connecting%20the%20Digital%20Dots.pdf> Acesso
em: 26/08/2016
