Mikulas Gaussman: a citizen digitally resourced for the future?
step 1: identify an area for your development
Using the categories below to identify an area for your own development.
- operational digital literacy: such as being able to use a number of software applications and browsing the internet.
- cultural digital literacy: such as being able to situate a digital tool/text within its cultural context.
- critical digital literacy: such as being able to evaluate and select digital tools and texts.
step 2: reflection/commentary
Lankshear and Knobel (2006) put forward three sub-categories of digital literacy. What category would you say is a current priority in educational contexts you are familiar with? Do the other categories merit concern? To what extent is digital literacy in all areas affected by age of learners/political systems?
For further discussion of digital skill sets relevant to educationalists please see Weller, M. The Openness-creativity cycle in education (2012) and Gruszczynska et al. Exploring Open Approaches towards Digital Literacy (2012).