Digital natives
Do you no longer own a TV, get your news directly from the net and perhaps have a website or blog? Then you might be a digital native in the best sense of the word.Check out these two great blog-posts (koehnetopp / netzpolitik in German).
Digital literacy is another important term in this respect. It is the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and create information using digital technology (wikipedia). Since C. P. Snow’s Rede-Lecture “The Two Cultures” in 1959, the problem of digital illiterates in all field of society is widely known and discussed. Especially the divide between the humanities and the sciences makes understanding and cooperating difficult and poses real problems for our socienties (see e.g. censorship debate in Germany 2009).
See also: eLearning Papers n° 12: Digital Literacy – the evolution of the 21st century Literacies
- Allan Martin: Digital Literacy for the Third Age: Sustaining Identity in an Uncertain World
- Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu: A digital literacy proposal in online Higher Education: the UOC scenario
- Chiara Sancin, Valentina Castello, Vittorio Dell’Aiuto, Daniela Di Genova: T-learning for social inclusion
- Maria Elisabetta Cigognini, Maria Chiara Pettenati: Designing e-tivities to increase learning-to-learn abilities
- Michelle Veugelers, Petra Newrly: How to strengthen digital literacy? Practical example of a European initiative “SPreaD”
