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Effective digital skills are essential for all teachers and tutors in the Further Education (FE) and Skills Sector. This text brings together important theory and research around digital literacy and outlines what this means for teaching in the sector. It presents a practical guide to the application of digital literacy skills in practice to enhance learning and teaching. It offers FE and Skills teachers and tutors a practical framework, underpinned by the standards through which they can develop their digital literacy skills. The text introduces different types of web-based technologies and explores how they can be used in teaching. It gives guidance on the skills teachers and tutors need to develop and on how they can ensure that their learners focus on these skills too. It also examines issues of digital safety, security and responsibility and how online learning communities can be accessed. It introduces some of the digital devices provided as teaching resources in the FE and skills sector and how these can be used fully to support learning. Finally, it looks at how teachers and tutors can maintain their digital skills going into practice and how continuous reflection can help them enhance their teaching.
What is Digital Literacy?
What is Digital Literacy?
In this chapter you will learn:
- How digital literacy is defined by key organisations and theorists.
- What digital literacy means in the context of the FE and Skills sector.
- How digital literacy relates to other literacies and critical thinking.
- The differences between ICT skills and digital literacy skills.
- What knowledge, skills and abilities a digitally literate teacher needs to have.
- About the digitally literate teacher framework used throughout this book.
This chapter explores definitions of the term ‘digital literacy’ and the knowledge, skills and practices associated with it. By the end of this chapter you should have a basic understanding of what digital literacy means as a general concept in education and more specifically how it relates to your professional practice in the FE ...
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