Digital literacies for learning / / edited by Allan Martin and Dan Madigan [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790983303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Facet, , 2006
• ISBN: 1-85604-987-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxviii, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 028.7
• Soggetti: Information literacy; Computer literacy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.