Digital literacy refers to the ability to use technology and digital tools to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information. The document discusses how the digital world has changed thinking, teaching, and learning. It describes qualities of digital natives, including how they think critically and solve problems by questioning, problem-creating, and finding information across different media in visual, oral, and aural forms. It emphasizes the importance of teaching digital natives skills like responsibility, discernment, and managing their online presence with the future in mind.

1. Digital Literacy
What does it mean to be a digital native?
What is ‘digital literacy’?

2. The world has changed
thinking has changed
teaching has changed
learning has changed
demand has changed

3. Literacy has its own value…not just as a tool
for teaching something else. Literacy is a
way of knowing, in and of itself.

4. Qualities of digital
natives
think
question, wonder
problem-create and problem-solve
literate across a huge range of media

5. R
Problem
Think Question I
Solve
C
H
T
Problem A
Oral Aural
create P
E
S
T
Visual R
Responsibility Discernment
Y

6. Think
wonder, be curious
form their own opinions and substantiate
dare to challenge the ideas of others

7. Question
wonder about their world
ask about what they don’t know
ask about what they do know
dare to questions those who educate/lead

8. Problem
Solve
understand where to start to find information
have resources at hand to solve problems
know how to find out an answer independently

9. Problem
Create
be able to formulate new ideas for future
problems
desire to create problems and issues for solving

10. Oral
operate in a verbal environment
be conversant in their first language
be conversant in the language of their time

11. Aural
be competent listeners
be able to store what they hear
be able to discern important information

12. Visual
use multi-modal information
process on many levels at once
use what is seen to gain knowledge

13. Responsibility
be responsible online learners and users
understand cybersafety
manage themselves and relationships with the
future in mind

14. Discernment
know how to check sources of information
be able to discern when online
know how to use information responsibly

15. How???
life skills - consider what we teach & how we
tools vs. teaching
explicit teaching and exposure to new skills
allow students to control their learning

16. Why go digital-native?
new ways of communicating
new ways of collaborating
new jobs in a new future

17. What does it look like?
noisy!
individualised
non-conformist
scary...!