At a time when England have introduced digital literacy elements to their new Computing PoS, and with the recommendations from the ICT Steering Group report for a digital literacy framework alongside the new topic of Computing, I’ve been attempting to appear closely into what exactly is meant by the term ‘digital literacy’, and eventually what this could mean for primary and secondary schools in Wales. It is also evident the newest 2004 definition clearly aligns with the AECT mission: to provide international leadership by promoting scholarship and best practices in the creation, use, and management of technologies for efficient teaching and finding out in a wide range of settings” (AECT Definition and Terminology Committee document #MM4., 2004, p.18).
On the one particular hand, there is interest in understanding if student assessments include measures of technologies proficiency or utilization, no matter whether straight (such as like things in a mathematics test that call for use of a calculator) or indirectly (such as an assessment that involved a student presentation completed in a laptop graphics plan, such as PowerPoint).
In line with the development and advancement of science and technologies so quickly, specially in education, psychology and communication it is not impossible in the future of learning technologies will increasingly continue to grow and strengthen themselves as a discipline and profession that can further advantage the achievement of effectiveness and finding out efficiency.
1 great definition that achieves this without circumscribing outcomes too closely is this one particular by Cowan and Turner-Smith published in 1999 that describes assistive technology as ‘any device or technique that allows an individual to execute a job that they would otherwise be unable to do, or increases the ease and security with which the job can be performed’.
My purpose was to start off by critiquing the narrow view of technology as recent electronic stuff,” then transition to a wide, pervasive view of technology employing Kline’s 4 layers, and then circle back to a more narrow definition that we avoids saying every thing is technology” or technologies == culture.” The difficulty is of course that culture, tools, art, technology, etc.