Short story of digital literacy
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Most broadly, digital literacy can be understood as the ability to use digital technology and communication tools to locate, evaluate, use and create information. In his 2004 book, Multiliteracies for a Digital Age, Stuart Selber differentiates three types of digital literacies that are helpful for thinking about the pedagogical possibilities in teaching digital storytelling.
First, functional digital literacy is the ability to use digital technology tools to manage a project or task of some kind. When students use digital tools to scaffold their digital story-making process, they’re practicing functional digital literacy skills.
Next, critical digital literacy is the ability for users to recognize how technologies operate in social and cultural contexts. When students evaluate digital stories, cinematic essays, documentary media, and the choices made by the creators of such works, they are practicing critical digital literacy skills.
Finally, rhetorical digital literacy is the ability to recognize and situate oneself as a user and producer of technological discourses within cultural contexts. Asking students to reflect on whose narratives they’re enabling, for what purposes, and through what means, enables them to develop rhetorical digital literacy.