Using digital technologies to locate, organize and create information. As well as having a wide range of abilities and competencies needed to function in our current society (such as reading online to participating in online learning communities.)

Digital Literacy Overview

• • What defines a literate person in today’s digital world? Why is it important?

Explore:

• • Ian O’Byrne's Blog

  • Ian's research

  • Guiding Students as they...

  • Digital Writing as a Mode of Thinking

  • Social Scholars: Educators’ Digital Identity Construction in Open, Online Learning Environments

  • Develop Multiliteracies

  • Web Literacy Map ~Doug Belshaw

  • interview with Ian O'Byrne and Doug Belshaw

  • web literacy map v1.5

  • Multimodel Scaffolding *

  • A Universal Framework...

• ASCD New Literacies & Common Core

• ORCA UConn New Literacies

• How to Infuse Digital Literacy Throughout the Curriculum

• Digital Reading What's essential in grades 3-8

• The Global Search for Education: Digital Literacy

• Teaching Channel

• Digital Skills in Higher Ed

• NCTE No Longer a Luxury

• International Literacy Association

More Resources:

• Being in the Moment: implications for teaching and young people's digital literacies

• Online Research & Media Skills in today's classroom

• MediaSmarts

  • Mapping Digital Literacy pdf

• Greg McVerry's Portfolio

• LITERACY SPECIAL INTEREST Journal of the LITERACY Professional Learning Network OF ISTE International Society for Technology in Education Inaugural Issue Spring 2015

• ISTE Standards for Digital Age Teaching

• ISTE Members: Digital Literacy: New Media Literacy and Narrative in the Education – Tools, Perspectives,Assessment

• New Literacies & 21st Century Technology

• New Literacies Resources

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  • Multimodel Scafolding... The Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy Multimodal Scaffolding in the Secondary English Classroom Curriculum Authors Benjamin Boche, Megan Henning First published: 24 February 2015 DOI: 10.1002/jaal.406

• When they read but don't understand

• Amplifying Student Voice

• Researching and Understanding New Literacies...