1. Digital Literacy
Preparing students for reading 21st century texts
Prepared by:
Brett Williams
ETEC 540 Summer 2014

5. Digital Natives
• effective at multi-tasking
• expect quick access to information
• value graphics before text
• network (primarily through social
media)
• expect instant gratification and
rewards
• crave interactivity

8. 1) The volume of information available and the
speed at which it can be accessed.
2) The affordances of hypermedia and the appeal
of random access.
3) The importance of interactivity and networking.
4) The function and impact of digital textual
features such as images, video, hypertext, font
and colour.

10. Digital Literacy Skill
Sets
Language
Information
Connections
Re-design
Pegrum, M. (2011). Modified, multiplied and (re-)mixed: social media and digital
literacies. In M. Thomas (ed.). Digital education: opportunities for social
collaboration. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

11. Language-based
literacies
Online text genres:
-Blogs
-Wikis
-Forum discussions
Textual features:
-Hypertext
-Graphics
-Multimedia
-Abbreviations
-Gaming
-Code

12. Information-based
literacies
-Facilitate effective searches
-Filter information
-Tagging and hyperlinking

13. Connection-based
literacies
-Managing online persona and networks.
-Creating digital content for others to view and share.

14. Re-design-based
literacies
-Re-create/re-purpose existing
digital content.
-Copyright.
-Plagiarism.

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