Digital Literacy

Our digital native students have such easy access to enormous amounts of information. In one sense it creates a democratization of knowledge that impacts teaching and learning. For example, a great teaching strategy is to connect to prior knowledge, but with information being so accessible teachers can no longer assume the level of knowledge which their students come to class. The reality is that there is much more diversity of knowledge amongst our students. There are games, models and simulations freely available that make it easy and fun for students to seek out information on topics that interest them. This impacts teaching and learning and is gradually changing the role of the teacher.

For students, the ever increasing volume of information they are exposed to means that they have to master organizational and literacy skills to manage and make meaning of the content.
Tutorial for Basic Information
Digital Literacy
Microsoft Digital Literacy
The Web is not an Encyclopedia
Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
A Goals Based Approach to Information Literacy
Video:Students Evolve from Critics to Creators

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