LIDA101 Digital literacies and why they're important for you

[adamliberatore]

@AlenaBuis

Teaching Naked by Jose Bowen.

This sounds interesting, will have to have a read.

[adamliberatore]

3. I think my personal digital literacy is very similar to the work environment. Anything I figure out in one, I can utilize in the other. Just building my overall knowledge.

[fionabelle99]

My digital literacy has all been learned in my work environment (Librarian for over 20 years). I am no longer working in this field and my personal digital literacy needs to be maintained in order to ensure engaged digital citizenship. Things change quickly in this environment and I feel rusty already!

[fionabelle99]

@AlenaBuis

Teaching Naked by Jose Bowen.

@queenesty Thanks for this - will have to take a look

[jernest]

@AlenaBuis Sounds interesting, will have a look.

[JSiraba]

Digital literacies are now very important to me, because technology is becoming more and more apart of my daily life. For instance, all my course information and assignments are all online, so knowing how to use technology, as well as navigating round digital platforms, is important to me.

[delilahtumbo]

Digital literature is about knowing how to use technology, navigating, and communicating. It is important to people who have digital devices, such as computers, tablets, and mobile phones where you can easily access the internet.

[00009]

Hi everyone! My name is Pouna Egi from Papua New Guinea. From my opinion digital literacy is a very excellent way of getting knowledge across others and it is important because of self learning.#LIDA101

[danieloskam]

Coming from a Heavy Diesel industry workplace with specific task driven jobs my digital literacy skills were limited. Now that I am lecturing students automotive engineering in a practical environment, I need to be able to share my practical skills and my digital literacy. I have had to expand my digital literacy skills so students are able to learn on-line (especially during the Covid-19 lockdown that we went through in New Zealand). Digital Literacy that I use the most are Microsoft Teams and apps inside this environment. I hope to learn how to annotate PowerPoints to assist students to learning, share information and communicate on online. I have a lot to learn…

[danieloskam]

@Maruff I too rely on PowerPoint to help students learn information online. I hope to be able to dictate the PowerPoints for students who may miss the online classes.

[danieloskam]

@ereynor

I also need to improve my digital literacy to improve my courses (teaching) and this will have a knock-on effect on my students learning and interest in my courses. This is one reason why digital literacy is important to me. Another is that I feel I am not digitally literate or digitally fluent and want to improve in these areas, mostly for work but also for me personally!

I too want to improve, I find it hard to keep up with the every changing digital environment. If I can become more digital literate, then my students will benefit as well.

[riea242]

As part of the LiDA course currently undertaking, I have found digital literacies to be more than just accessing facebook, messenger and making comments, using the snipping tool to select an image and copy it onto a word document and having no thought on whether i had permission or not. I am grateful to many things learned on this course and will continue to use some things. However, I am not a blogger, I doubt very much whether I will access this platform again, but who knows. But, yes, digital literacy is important in my role as a nursing lecturer. As we know, students learn differently using various learning styles. If I can learn more about digital literacy, I maybe able to contribute to their learning.

[mackiwg]

Greetings @riea242

We are pleased that you have learned new things through LiDA, and thanks for sharing your experience.

An important digital literacy is to evaluate the tools you find most useful for your context, and if blogging doesn’t add value to your digital citizenship, its appropriate not to use this tool. That said, perhaps sometime in the future you may need skills to publish and maintain your own website - and blogging is an accessible way to achieve this.

All the best for your teaching career!

[fbasse]

In this New University, learning with digital literacies is kind of an important thing to each and everyone of us as a student here. Of course, its because we are connected in studying using desktops provided to each and everyone of us. That makes digital literacy very important for me as a student of Western Pacific University.
#LiDA101#WPU

[letrolltwo]

@mackiwg

What is interesting is the fact that even though I have a terminal degree, I have received no formal training in the majority of skills and literacies that are pre-requisite for my work at the OERu associated with learning in a digital age. I have adopted a learn-by-doing approach to build the competencies for working effectively in a digital world.

@mackiwg Thank you for sharing this part. For some reason this gave me more confidence by “learn-by-doing” to understand(?) the things which are part of the LiDA101 course better, if I interpreted what you wrote correctly . I’m currently having a challenging time reading about new unfamiliar definitions to understand them . Learn-by-doing seems to be the favorable way for myself , which you seem to pulled off to begin with(?) I hope by my learn-by-doing I will finally be able to give my own accurate definitions

[Unam20221]

I was aware of digital natives but I had no idea about digital literacy. For me, it is about practising whatever new technology is popular at the moment and then using it to improve work processes. Therefore I guess I’m digitally literate but not fluent at all.

Some new I learned today is to hypothesise and annotate, previously I just highlighted whatever text I wanted.
Thank for the lesson.

[bkabuatioer]

@mackiwg

Has social media helped or hindered the ability to find credible and reliable resources? I’m thinking here specifically about the fake news phenomenon which has permeated a number of social media platforms.

Are there better social media to suit a certain location, culture or environment? Can we take a pick of which social media better suits one’s location, setting or environment?

[bkabuatioer]

@mackiwg

A key component of my work focuses on finding new and interesting ways to support learning in a digital age with emerging technologies and as such this is more than a skill because we need to consider how these technologies can enable and support learning.

@mackiwg it is very impressive to know you continually searching for ways via digital content to support learning in a digital age. I have spent weeks, and still working my way out to create a good and customisable website! Help is very welcome.

[bkabuatioer]

@dimit09

Today there are a lot of video editing tutorials on youtube and some of them might be quite useful. There are also a lot of free video editors on the internet which may help.

Yes, you are correct, the more we digitally literate, the more efficient we can be in terms of time spent on the internet search or time consumed with social media etc.

[AEnnis]

@mackiwg

One digital literacy you have acquired and use regularly in your own context. Summarise your context and suggest why this is a literacy rather than a digital skill

One #diglit I use is my search skills, my ability to search databases and repositories is essential for my work as a librarian. It is literacy, as opposed to skill, because when you understand how the software works and how resources are stored and catalogued and how this relates to finding and discovering database items.