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The Consequences of 200 Years of Unthoughtful Consumption

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I’ve just discovered Dangerously Irrelevant and was impressed to read Scott Mcleod ask: When will we take seriously the challenge of preparing our graduates for our new information landscape? And what are we going to do about all of our graduates?

Our new information landscape is digital bits in the ether instead of ink dots on paper. There is no foreseeable future in which we go back to analog. One of schools’ primary tasks is to help students master the dominant information landscape of their time. Schools are knowledge institutions preparing students to do knowledge work. So let’s be clear about what our new information landscape looks like:

Our New Digital Learning Landscape by Dangerously Irrelevant

In a followup article, Scott comments:

We spent the last 200+ years (at least) pushing consumption models of learning on most of our students. We asked them to be passive recipients of whatever information came from the teacher or textbook. We gave them few opportunities to question the reliability or validity of the information that we spoon-fed them. We trusted that someone else did the filtering for us and them beforehand. And in many cases, we actually punished kids who dared to ask questions or present alternative viewpoints.

So we shouldn’t be surprised that we now have an information / media literacy problem with our adults. We shouldn’t be surprised that most of our citizens have trouble determining the validity and reliability of digital and online information sources. We shouldn’t be surprised that we are easy prey for those who spread misinformation, deception, and outright lies.

Read the whole article, “Unthoughtful Consumption” on Dangerously Irrelevant.

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8 Digital Literacies Required to Thrive in a Digital World

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Understanding Digital Literacies by Rodney H. Jones by Christoph A. Hafner

Assuming no knowledge of linguistics, Understanding Digital Literacies provides an accessible and timely introduction to new media literacies. It supplies readers with the theoretical and analytical tools with which to explore the linguistic and social impact of a host of new digital literacy practices. Each chapter in the volume covers a different topic, presenting an overview of the major concepts, issues, problems and debates surrounding the topic, while also encouraging students to reflect on and critically evaluate their own language and communication practices.

Understanding Digital Literacies

8 Digital Literacies Required to Thrive in a Digital World

  1. The ability to quickly search through and evaluate great masses of information.
  2.  The ability to create coherent reading pathways through complex collections of linked texts.
  3.  The ability to quickly make connections between widely disparate ideas and domains of experience.
  4.  The ability to shoot and edit digital photos and video.
  5. The ability to create multimodal documents that combine words, graphics, video, and audio.
  6. The ability to create and maintain dynamic online profiles and manage large and complex online social networks.
  7.  The ability to explore and navigate online worlds and to interact in virtual environments.
  8.  The ability to protect one’s personal data from being misused by others.
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