I love the the opportunities created by the digital age but am also wary of the dangers posed. Being annonymous and keeping my private life private is an important foundation upon which my online presence has so far been built. Activities such as information seeking seem harmless whereas sharing information about my self and daily … Continue reading Reflections on digital literacy and online learning

In my previous post I argued that Prensky’s (2001) dividing of digital literacies into ”native” and ”immigrant” was reductive and colonial. In this post I will discuss Doug some more recent contributions to understanding digital literacies. White and Le Cornu’s (2011) distinction between ”visitor” and ”resident” seems already more promising than Prensky’s between ”native” and … Fortsätt läsa Plurilingual digital literacies

The American academy in a number of fields seems to prize above all else the scholar who can reduce a complex phenomenon to a catch-phrase, or analogise the unfamiliar to the familiar, convincing colleagues and the public that there is a clear and compelling answer to their questions. Marc Prensky’s ”Digital Natives” versus ”Digital Immigrants” … Fortsätt läsa On digital monolingualism