Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

Two Awesome Presentations on Digital Literacy for TeachersLiteracy is a concept that is really hard to define or contain within a single semiotic field. There are also divisive views over the meaning of literacy. The traditional camp views it as the basic ability to read and write; encoding and decoding meaning from chunks of text or verbal output. On the other hand, the progressivists look at it from a different angle. For them, literacy is not divorced from the social context in which it is conceived of. Therefore, to talk about a single literacy is analogous to saying there is only one group of people populating this planet. There are several literacies, in  New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Classroom Learning  Lankshear and Knobel referred to it as  " multiple literacies". I personally find myself siding with the modern progressivist camp.