This isn’t to say the technology is wrong, but the need for digital literacy has fallen way to the need for digital literacies.
Fortunately Allan Martin in Digital Literacies for Learning puts it in more measured and useful terms, with a focus to enable educators.
“Enabling education in a digital environment means not only changing the form in which learning opportunities are offered, but also enabling students to survive and prosper in digitally-based learning environments… Traditional notions of literacy need to be challenged, and new literacies, including information literacy and IT literacy, need to be considered as foundation elements for digitally involved learners. (Martin, 2006)
It is by no means Judgment Day (a reference to the Terminator …show more content…
This is an adaptation, of humans and technology. Web 4.0 is a mobile revolution of connectivity (Waele, 2008). Web 4.0 exists because the thing in your pocket is as good or in many cases a better tool to engage in digital media than the big box sitting on your desk. It’s always on, it’s always with you, and we can engage with it as we would engage with our own memory. This being the newest and current age, many of the details and issues are still being worked out. Three of the biggest digital dangers that literacy can address are digital discretion, digital distraction, and digital destruction. These are self-coined terms.
Digital discretion It is said discretion is the better part of valor, it may also be the better part of literacy. As discussed earlier digital literacy involves the creation of content, not just the consumption of it. Unfortunately, many young people are creating content with disastrous effects. For much of human history mistakes of youth are left in youth…boys will be boys. In more modern times, people get to reinvent themselves regularly. Moving to a new city, going to university, or starting a new job, all are opportunities to become a new person. People only know what you tell them about yourself. Communities trying to recreate their own identity punctuate American history; survivalists in Montana, gay communities in San Francisco, and Mormons in …show more content…
In the past year, there ` been big news stories that point to the danger of digital destruction. Justine Sacco (Ronson, 2015 ) tried to make a point but expressed it in an unfunny collection of 140 characters. If she would have told this to the passenger on her right, all she would risk is an uncomfortable flight, as it is, she tweeted it out. Her flight was fine, but her life was ruined. The internet can’t simply respond with the a scowl like you might in real life. What it can do is spread hate and torment across countless digital spaces. This harassment leaks into real life, as she was fired, and strangers showed up at her
Fortunately Allan Martin in Digital Literacies for Learning puts it in more measured and useful terms, with a focus to enable educators.
“Enabling education in a digital environment means not only changing the form in which learning opportunities are offered, but also enabling students to survive and prosper in digitally-based learning environments… Traditional notions of literacy need to be challenged, and new literacies, including information literacy and IT literacy, need to be considered as foundation elements for digitally involved learners. (Martin, 2006)
It is by no means Judgment Day (a reference to the Terminator …show more content…
This is an adaptation, of humans and technology. Web 4.0 is a mobile revolution of connectivity (Waele, 2008). Web 4.0 exists because the thing in your pocket is as good or in many cases a better tool to engage in digital media than the big box sitting on your desk. It’s always on, it’s always with you, and we can engage with it as we would engage with our own memory. This being the newest and current age, many of the details and issues are still being worked out. Three of the biggest digital dangers that literacy can address are digital discretion, digital distraction, and digital destruction. These are self-coined terms.
Digital discretion It is said discretion is the better part of valor, it may also be the better part of literacy. As discussed earlier digital literacy involves the creation of content, not just the consumption of it. Unfortunately, many young people are creating content with disastrous effects. For much of human history mistakes of youth are left in youth…boys will be boys. In more modern times, people get to reinvent themselves regularly. Moving to a new city, going to university, or starting a new job, all are opportunities to become a new person. People only know what you tell them about yourself. Communities trying to recreate their own identity punctuate American history; survivalists in Montana, gay communities in San Francisco, and Mormons in …show more content…
In the past year, there ` been big news stories that point to the danger of digital destruction. Justine Sacco (Ronson, 2015 ) tried to make a point but expressed it in an unfunny collection of 140 characters. If she would have told this to the passenger on her right, all she would risk is an uncomfortable flight, as it is, she tweeted it out. Her flight was fine, but her life was ruined. The internet can’t simply respond with the a scowl like you might in real life. What it can do is spread hate and torment across countless digital spaces. This harassment leaks into real life, as she was fired, and strangers showed up at her