Double Entry Journal #14

Chapter 7: Citizens Navigating in Literate Worlds: The case of digital literacy.

Read the introduction through to the sub heading "Studying Digital Youth" on page 102.

1. What is the purpose of this chapter?

It is to look closer at the term "digital literacy" as a way of understanding how young people relate to the digital world that they live in, and how education can enhance their skills.

2. Why did the author choose to focus on your people in the Nordic countries?

Most of his research has been conducted there.

3. How does education differ in Nordic countries from education in other parts of the world including the United States?

There is more project-based learning, more equal opportunities, and higher access to media within the school systems.

4. Why is more research  needed about how young people use digital media in their lives outside of school?
There is such a difference throughout the world of how media is used in and out of school, and we need to figure out why that is and what can be done to change it.

Then begin reading again on p. 110 Digital Literacies and Educational Practices

1. Why is it important for there to be more opportunities for young people to use Digital Media in school?

It improves basic skills, media has become a domain of knowledge itself, knowledge is connected to cultural tools that are available, need to learn how to build knowledge by using information, and how learning is connected to identity.

2. What skills do people need in order to be considered digitally literate?
 To be digitally literate, one needs to have the basic skills to operate technology, while being able to take the information given to them and apply it to build a better knowledge of the subject.