Digital and Critical Literacy

This video shows the importance for teacher to understand and able to operate in the new literacies. Teacher education is more and more obliged to equipped teacher to understand about new literacies and how they operate. This is because the new generation of students will grow up very close to new literacies uses, which they will believe in the information provided so much without knowing where the information come from. They may acquire information from resources that maybe unreliable from the internet. If teachers can not help students to offer guidance about which sources are reliable and which sources are not, the teachers will eventually do not fully play their role as a great educator.   

New Literacies

There are a few definitions of new literacies, which involves learning in a digital community, using new technologies with a purpose of sharing information and knowledge to fellow learners, combined skills used as a result of the new technologies, and the technology itself. Among these definitions, the most important thing that need to be underlined about new literacies according to Callow (2008)  is that they are about sharing and presenting information through different kinds of technological tools for larger communities for a greater use.   

References:

Callow, J. (2008). New literacies, New York & Web 2.0: a little knowledge is a helpful thing! SCAN, 27(4), 13-16