This document discusses new digital literacies needed in the 21st century. It defines digital literacies as adaptable skills that enable people to navigate the digital world and information superhighway. Digital literacies include locating and filtering information, sharing and collaborating online, organizing and curating content, creating and generating new content, and reusing and repurposing existing content. The document provides guidance for teachers to help students develop these digital literacies through online research, open educational resources, digital storytelling, and engaging in online communities. Emergent themes are that digital literacy involves being both a producer and consumer of information across different contexts and technologies.

1. New Literacies
in a Digital World and Teachers
La Salle University
School of Education Sciences
Yamith José Fandiño

2. Introduction

3. Context
• It is important to
acknowledge the
realities and challenges
that educators face
every day and present
practical strategies for
producing real results.

4. Literacy
• At the core of literacy are reading and writing.
• However, a broader look at literacy reveals that it includes not only reading and
writing but the ability to engage in all types of communication— whether textual,
graphical, auditory, or otherwise.
• Furthermore, literacy involves not only communication but also managing the
information that is transmitted by any communication medium.
• It involves knowing how to produce meaning with different communication media:
blogs, text messages, Internet memes, social networks, and multiuser virtual
environments (MUVEs).

5. Digital Literacies
• Digital literacies represent in whole the essential skills for managing information
and communication in the rapidly changing and increasingly digital world that is
the 21st century.
• Digital literacies are not merely about gaining new technology skills or learning to
use new tools.
• Instead, digital literacies are adaptable skills that actually enable us to capitalize
on those technical skill sets and navigate the information superhighway.
• The ability to constantly adapt existing skills and develop new ones when
appropriate.

6. Digital Literacies
Digital literacies Definitions
Locating and Filtering Finding and identifying resources and paring down those resources in order to arrive
at exactly the information that is desired
Internet search engines, online research databases, and the ability to tag and
categorize digital resources.
Sharing and
Collaborating
Highlighting the social movement that has swept the globe, thanks to the advent of
social media and the interactive, collaborative web.
Social bookmarking, online document platforms, wikis, social networks, online
discussion forums, and augmented reality (AR).
Organizing and
Curating
Making orderly sense of resources and content that is otherwise fragmented
and scattered. It leads to new meaning and a deeper understanding of information
and communications due to the strategic presentation of such material.
E-portfolios, blogs, and microblogging.

7. Digital Literacies
Digital literacies Definitions
Creating and
generating
Acknowledging the responsibility that every digital citizen holds as a content
contributor in our 21st-century global society (producing knowledge).
Wikis, blogs, podcasts, e-portfolios, mash-ups and collective media creation, multiuser
virtual environments (MUVEs).
Reusing and
repurposing
Promoting the ability to mashup and remix content from multiple online sources.
Fanfiction literature, virtual globes, interactive time lines, etc.

8. Digital Literacies

9. Literacies and teaching/learning
• Locating and filtering

10. Literacies and teaching/learning
• Locating and filtering
- It is about managing information from the consumer’s perspective.
- It requires using crafted queries in search engines.
- It demands critical analysis in order to identify accurate, reliable resources
and red flag those that are not.
- Help students select and use appropriate search engines and databases to
perform online research and then evaluate both information and sources for
accuracy, relevance, and validity.

11. Literacies and teaching/learning
• Sharing and collaborating

12. Literacies and teaching/learning
• Sharing and collaborating
- It is about exploring the role of a producer of content.
- It is about being part of the era of open educational resources.
- It consists of knowing how to share intellectual property while maintaining
rights and ownership.
- It builds upon the idea of the collective intelligence, which grows
exponentially due to collaboration, cooperation, and competition.

13. Literacies and teaching/learning
• Organizing and curating

14. Literacies and teaching/learning
• Organizing and curating
- It is about sharing with others and enhancing knowledge through ongoing
collaboration.
- It is about organizing, editorializing, and sharing topical web content.
- It is about developing a wiki site profiling the Great Depression, engaging in
digital storytelling about local culture, or creating an Internet radio station
with commentary featuring music from the Big Band Era.

15. Literacies and teaching/learning
• Creating and Generating

16. Literacies and teaching/learning
• Creating and Generating
- It is about combining different types of content: visuals, texts, sounds,
animations, augmented reality, etc.
- It is about doing reflection, developing multimedia-rich digital projects, and
paying attention to the means use in the creation and generation of content.
- It is about the importance of being a contributing member of society, not
only in terms of social responsibility, but also with regard to knowledge at
the micro and macro levels.

17. Literacies and teaching/learning
• Reusing and Repurposing

18. Literacies and teaching/learning
• Reusing and Repurposing
- It is about taking content and reworking it to serve a new purpose.
- It is about promoting online communities and spaces to become places
where intellectual growth occurs and creativity abounds.
- It is about working with the capacity to make a significant impact on society
at large.

19. Emergent Literacies
Each of these emergent literacies
intersects with the others in one
way or another.

20. Emergent Literacies
Emergent themes
• Fluent literacy involves being both an intelligent consumer and a skilled producer of information
and communication.
• Fluent literacy acknowledges modalities brought forth by the advent of modern and progressive
technologies (e.g., texting, virtual worlds, etc.).
• Fluent literacy emphasizes on the ability to learn and adapt on a continual basis as society
changes and technology evolves.
• Fluent literacy involves decoding and interpreting content varies across contexts, which requires
understanding the tasks involved in managing information and communication, which may
otherwise seem similar.

21. Reference
Summey, D. (2013). Developing digital literacies. A framework for
professional learning. USA: CORWIN A Sage company.