What are digital literacies? Let’s ask the students — from DMLcentral.net by Cathy Davidson
It was with these critiques in mind that I asked undergraduate students in my two classes, “This Is Your Brain on the Internet” and “Twenty-First Century Literacies” to come up with a list of skills they had mastered in my peer-driven, peer-assessed, peer-led classes they had not gained elsewhere. We might call these skills “digital literacies.”
Check out their list, and then tell me if you recognize those self-absorbed, no-nothing, isolated, and distracted students described by the pundits. To my mind, this is a list of digital literacies any of us might aspire to: