Digital literacies for learning / edited by Allan Martin and Dan Madigan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, Allan, editor.

Madigan, Dan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information literacy.

Computer literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London : Facet, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the 21st century, digital tools enable information to be generated faster and in greater profusion than ever before, to the point where its extent and value are literally beyond imagining. Such quantities can only be meaningfully addressed using more digital tools, and thus our relationship to information is fundamentally changed. This situation presents a particular challenge to processes of learning and teaching, and demands a response from both information professionals and educators. Enabling education in a digital environment means not only changing the form in which learning opportunities are offered, but also enabling students to survive and prosper in digitally based learning environments. This collection brings together a global community of educators, educational researchers, librarians and IT strategists, to consider how learners need to be equipped in an educational environment that is increasingly suffused with digital technology. Traditional notions of literacy need to be challenged, and new literacies, including information literacy and IT literacy, need to be considered as foundation elements for digitally involved learners.

Contents:

pt. I. Literacies in the digital age

1. Literacies for the digital age : preview of Part I / Allan Martin

2. Learners, learning literacy and the pedagogy of e-learning / Terry Mayes and Chris Fowler

3. Real learning in virtual environments / Johannes Cronje

4. Digital fusion : defining the intersection of content and communications / Paul Gilster

5. Literacy and the digital knowledge revolution / Claire Belisle

6. Understanding e-literacy / Maryann Kope

7. Information literacy

an overview / Ola Pilerot

8. Contemporary literacy

the three Es / David F. Warlick

9. Reconceptualizing media literacy for the digital age / Renee Hobbs

10. Literacy, e-literacy and multiliteracies : meeting the challenges of teaching online / Chris Sutton

11. Graduate e-literacies and employability / Denis Haywood, Jeff Haywood and Hamish Macleod

pt. II. Enabling and supporting digital literacies

12. Supporting and enabling digital literacy in a global environment : preview of part 2 / Dan Madigan

13. 'dense symphony of the nation' : Cymru Ar-Lein and e-citizens and e-communities in Wales / Stephen Griffiths

14. impact of information competencies on socio-economic development in Southern Hemisphere economies / Jesus Lau / USBI Veracruz Library

15. Supporting students in e-learning / Martin Jenkins

16. information commons : a student-centred environment for IT and information literacy development / Hester Mountifield

17. Socio-cultural approaches to literacy and subject knowledge development in learning management systems / Neil Anderson

18. Approaches to enabling digital literacies : successes and failures / Alex Reid

19. Professional development and graduate students : approaches to technical and information competence / Catherine Cardwell

20. Windward in an asynchronous world : the Antiguan initiative, unanticipated pleasure of the distance learning revolution / Cornel J. Reinhart

21. tale of two courses / Gill Needham and David Murphy.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781856049870

1856049876

OCLC:

868271507