DIGITAL LITERACIES FOR LEARNING

This book brings together a global community of educators, educational researchers, librarians and others involved in enabling learning, to consider how learners need to be equipped in an educational environment which is increasingly suffused by 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. The international contributors deploy a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives, with a focus mainly on higher education. In part one the authors consider how digital technologies have enabled transformative change in the ways in which learning can be constructed. In the second part they discuss the nature of the new literacies that have emerged in this digitally-enabled educational environment. In the third part they consider the way in which digital literacies can be made available to learners, and in the final part these literacies are relocated within the broader perspective of the activity of learning. This book takes the issues raised in the successful 'Information and IT Literacy', by the same Editor, into a broader context.