{"id":371,"date":"2011-10-30T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=371"},"modified":"2011-10-30T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T19:47:00","slug":"digital-literacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Digital literacies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Literacy is \u2018The ability to understand information however it is presented\u2019 (Lanham 1995 in The Electronic Word)<\/p>\n

Lankshear and Knobel (2003) proposed that it has three dimensions:<\/p>\n

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  1. Operational \u2013 skills and techniques<\/li>\n
  2. Cultural \u2013 development of shared meanings<\/li>\n
  3. Critical \u2013 all literacies are socially constructed and selective, reflecting certain values, rules and perspectives, so individuals need to develop a critical stance<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Reading on screen is profoundly different to reading print. We need to understand how meaning is constructed in different modes and which elements are most salient in different modes. A key part of gaming literacy, for example, is being able to anticipate what will appear on the screen next.<\/p>\n

    We teach literacy because it is the information medium. The need to read and write and compose texts remains very important,<\/p>\n

    (Notes from the OU Workshop on Digital Literacies \u2013 20 May 2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Literacy is \u2018The ability to understand information however it is presented\u2019 (Lanham 1995 in The Electronic Word) Lankshear and Knobel (2003) proposed that it has three dimensions: Operational \u2013 skills and techniques Cultural \u2013 development of shared meanings Critical \u2013 all literacies are socially constructed and selective, reflecting certain values, rules and perspectives, so individuals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literacies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}