Digital Literacy has it's own 'SuperChefs' and the occasional food critic - they suggest how we will learn in the future, experiment and innovate with new ways of learning, test or chronicle trends and innovations
Paul Gilster
The term Digital Literacy came to the fore in Paul Gilster's book of the same name. But the concept of borrowing the term literacy to describe activities other than reading and writing pre-dates the metaphor of digital literacy. Doug Belshaw (http://neverendingthesis.com/doug-belshaw-edd-thesis-final.pdf ) charts the history of the term back to the 1960's, when people had started to wonder if traditional views of how people understood the meaning of the media relied on more than just the ability to read.
Gilster starts his book about digital literacy by commenting on how the Internet upsets established paradigms and referencing Ernest Rutherford he paints a picture where ideas are made accessible to the many, but they need to find them. Making the point that the Internet requires users to have search skills and so must 'acquire the ability to use these things in your life' (Glister). He sees people needing to have core competencies, the most important being critical thinking. As many other competencies can develop from the core competency of critical thinking.
Paul Gilster
The term Digital Literacy came to the fore in Paul Gilster's book of the same name. But the concept of borrowing the term literacy to describe activities other than reading and writing pre-dates the metaphor of digital literacy. Doug Belshaw (http://neverendingthesis.com/doug-belshaw-edd-thesis-final.pdf ) charts the history of the term back to the 1960's, when people had started to wonder if traditional views of how people understood the meaning of the media relied on more than just the ability to read.
Gilster starts his book about digital literacy by commenting on how the Internet upsets established paradigms and referencing Ernest Rutherford he paints a picture where ideas are made accessible to the many, but they need to find them. Making the point that the Internet requires users to have search skills and so must 'acquire the ability to use these things in your life' (Glister). He sees people needing to have core competencies, the most important being critical thinking. As many other competencies can develop from the core competency of critical thinking.
