02.+Literacy+Frameworks

=Literacy Frameworks=

//The Uses of Multimedia: Three Digital Literacy Case Studies //
This article (Hartly et al., 2008) borrowed the definition of digital literacy from Ofcom, a UK media regulator, which claims that digital literacy is not only the ability to access and understand professionally produced content, but also the ability to produce and publish user generated content. The authors of this article describe formal education, mass media entertainment and digital media. The purpose of formal education is to supply education to learners based on highly controlled and regulated curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and physical environment, while students do not have any control over what and how they learn. At the same time, the “read only” mass media entertainment separates producers and products from consumers. Consumers learn about the world through stories, but not about how to produce the stories. Digital media on the other hand, is about learning by doing, learning from proprietary tutorials created by peers. The authors propose that digital literacy is generated informally and on-demand by its uses not by a body of prescribed knowledge.

   Based on my recent experience with a research assignment in a highly structured online course, I would say that information literacy frameworks might be useful for participating successfully in the traditional education, face-to-face or online. My term paper was about conducting some research reviews. I was provided with the location and search strategies, but I had extreme challenge with figuring out the best method for search keywords, collecting, sorting and storing data and citation from multiple resources. I definitely was lacking skills in doing such a task without formal education in the procedure of conducting research reviews.

   It seems that the 21st century learning is going to be “demand-led”, which places creativity in front of critical thinking and replaces the read-only content with read-write content.    media type="custom" key="7822167"

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