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Digital literacies Nicky Hockly (2012) - Coggle Diagram
Digital literacies
Nicky Hockly (2012)
New technologies have transformed the way we live and communicate, and most educators are in agreement that new technologies require new skills.
skills which prepare students for life in the twenty-first century;
information, media and technology skills => ‘digital literacies.
Integrating new technologies into our classroom, we can also help learners develop key digital literacies
Pegrum (2011; Dudeney, Hockly, and Pegrum 2012) suggests a set
of four overlapping skill sets corresponding to four main areas:
Information
Language
Connection
Re-design
Texting Literacy
the ability to read and create the abbreviated forms used in text messaging or in taking part in real-time online text chat conversations.
Hypertext literacy
the ability to navigate and read online texts which contain hyperlinks
Other digital literacies
Visual and multimedia literacy
Gaming literacy (a macro literacy involving ‘linguistic, multimedia, spatial and kinaesthetic skills’ (Dudeney et al. op.cit.),
Mobile literacy’: the skills needed to effectively use mobile or handheld devices.
Technological literacy
Code literacy, which include a basic understanding of coding
Belshaw (2011) outlines eight key elements that characterize digital
literacies:
1 Cultural: the need to understand different online contexts and how to
interact appropriately in them
2 Cognitive: for Belshaw this ‘is about ways of conceptualizing ‘‘digitality’’
rather than the practice of using tools’.
3 Constructive: this includes the ability to create remixes (Pegrum’s ‘remix
literacy’)
4 Communicative: this is ‘understanding how communications media
work.
Confident: Belshaw suggests that we need to be confident users of
technology
6 Creative: the ability to find new ways to do new things with new tools
7 Critical: Belshaw suggests that we need to learn to ‘curate’ and critically
understand the resources
8 Civic: knowing how to use technology to increase civic engagement
Five activities that focus on a number of Pegrum’s digital literacies:
Txtng - Texting literacy
Follow the link - hepertext literacy
The tree octopus - information literacy
Copycat - visual and multimedia literacy