digital literacy 4.12.12
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Digital literacy is more than just knowing how to turn on a computer and use social media. It is the ability to critically analyze digital information and create information using digital tools. This presentation offers some resources and links to tutorials, reports and websites that help individuals bridge the digital divide.TRANSCRIPT
AGCJ Graduate Seminar
Digital Literacy and Communicating across the Digital Divide
What is digital literacy?
The ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and analyze information using digital technology. (wikipedia)
For communicators, it is also the ability to use this digital technology to communicate effectively to a specific audience a specific message. That’s how we communicate across the digital divide.
AGCJ Graduate Seminar
Digital Literacy
Recent research reports
• Knight Commission Report, 2009
Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age
• The Aspen Institute White Paper, 2010
Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action• American Association for Agricultural Education
National Research Agenda for 2011-2015
AGCJ Graduate Seminar
Digital Literacy
Programs have been created…
• www.digitalliteracy.gov• www.digitalliteracycorps.org/DLC-P4,html• www.library.illinois.edu/diglit• www.digiliteracy.org• http://www.knightfoundation.org/publications/det
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AGCJ Graduate Seminar
Digital Literacy
Curriculum has changed…
• http://mejohnso.myweb.uga.edu/diglit.html• http://newhouse.syr.edu/Academics/
Broadcast_Digital_Journalism/Undergraduate/overview.cfm
• Journalism 2.0 from the Knight Foundation• http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/
multimedia_training/• http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/• http://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/• http://www.newsu.org/
AGCJ Graduate Seminar
Digital Literacy
Why is this happening?
MySpace began…2003
Facebook began….2004
Twitter began…2006
YouTube began…2005
How are these companies relevant to the discussion?
AGCJ Graduate Seminar
Digital Literacy
Where do we go from here?
How is this going to change your education?
How is this going to change your work?
How is this going to change your world?
AGCJ Graduate Seminar
Digital Literacy
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Digital LiteracyFollow me @kaycolley
Dr. Kay L. Colley, ’91