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Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies

Posted on by M Kamala Devi

This is my first online course. In the beginning, it was rather daunting, learning how to navigate through the course materials and learning new tools, having to deal with internet connection dropping, and so forth. Nonetheless, I gained insight to a new learning experience as well as an opportunity to connect with fellow participants from […]

My First Blog Post

Posted on by Anne Pathiranage

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde.

This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

Digital literacy? No, digital literacies!

Posted on by Christiane Schnabel

I could immediately relate to the idea that digital literacies must be plural or that digital literacy has many dimensions. And, again, I was very impressed by the webinar with so many participants. Wow. Applying David White’s concept of a continuum between visitor/resident mode and personal/institutional use I yield a trend of a diagonal from […]

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Boundaries & engagement

Posted on by Heli Dahlin

Dear reader, It is almost a norm today to be digitally literate, or, at least, to aspire to be such. This is my view of the matter, at least, and I cannot seem to decide whether for me it is a dystopian view and a destructive norm to be resisted, or simply a natural consequence […]

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Signal and noise

Posted on by Lina Rahm

Knowledge is to sort, select, and discard. Therefore, what is included and excluded is always a matter of power. How does it affect what we see as digital literacy (and not)?

Thoughts around digital literacy.

Posted on by Shanice Adams

What is digital literacy? In my opinion, digital literacy is the ability to navigate and use the digital tools and search engines at our disposal. An example would be to search for information in google. I could search for weather for the next week, using this information to make sure I’m dressed accordingly. The ability […]