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Double Entry Journal 6
"Researchers find that reading for understanding online requires the same skills as offline reading, including using prior knowledge and making predictions, plus a set of additional critical-thinking skills that reflect the open-ended, continually changing online context."
There are several similarities and differences between traditional literacy and digital literacy. They both require one to be literate in not only what they are reading, but also how they read what they find. Digital literacy needs to be taught in the same fashion as traditional literacy, however, it is not being incorporated appropriately. As technology becomes more a part of our lives we have to assume that future generations will be even more immersed in it. The major difference between digital and traditional literacy is that digital literacy takes a far greater effort to prove and verify the source. The Internet, for one, is full of unverified and unaccredited sources of information.
This article covers a few topics on digital literacy, but my favorite part is where it points out that our students today are tech savvy and are natives of cyberspace. they grew up with it and have a knack for the ever changing world of technology and should be taught as such.
David, J. L. (2009, March). Ascd. Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/Teaching-Media-Literacy.aspx
Jones-Kavalier, B. R., & Flannigan, S. L. (2006).Connecting the digital dots: Literacy of the 21st century. Retrieved from
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