Digital literacy doesn’t merely mean technical proficiency .  It has multiple dimensions including technical proficiency, communication, digital identity  and security , creation and innovation. In the current education systems educators and students have to customise their teaching and learning to fit into the current digital world. Digital literacy is an important dimension in this for […]

In Topic 1, David White introduced us to “Visitors and Residents” as a new way of mapping people’s engagement with the internet, proposing this as a replacement to Prensky’s “Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants”.  I was immediately intrigued because I have, on several occasions, quietly questioned my students’ claim to the digital native status. This […]

Echoes of a “Gen X” childhood   I grew up at the end of the non-digital age (if a label was needed, Gen X would probably be nearest the mark). In my childhood, I remember my parents buying the first desktop computer for our home running on Windows 3.11 and we had to use a […]