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Web literaciesRichard Beach
Belshaw, The Essential
Elements of Digital Literacies Skills are not learned in isolation but
rather developed within a context. Literacies are plural and not neutral
when it comes to power, social identity and political ideology.
There is a continuum of skills, through competencies up to literacies.
Literacies are best taught when the learner can see the whole picture of what they are learning and where they are going (‘progressive encoding’).
Belshaw: 8 Essential Digital
Literacies1. Cultural
2. Cognitive
3. Constructive
4. Communicative
5. Confident
6. Creative
7. Critical
8. Civic
Recontextualization (Van
Leeuwen, 2008) Learning “memes”: Connectivism
(Stephen Downes):
“Knowledge is a network phenomenon, to
“know” something is to be organized in a
certain way, to exhibit patterns of
connectivity. To “learn” is to acquire
certain patterns. This is as true for a
community as it is for an individual.”
Nexus analysis: Meaning of
memes
Transaction: Experiential
learning and tool use (McLain,
2014) “Replicant” apps
◦ replicate or reify ways of learning made
possible by other tools such as flash-
cards or calculators.
“Extender” apps “
◦ “extend the learning experience in ways
not otherwise possible except through
app technology” (p. 196), fostering
alternative learning experiences made
possible through app affordances.
Rap Genius: Annotations
Annotation: Kurt Corbane
letter
VoiceThread: Multiple audiences
share responses to images
Mozilla: “Teaching Kits”: Remix:
Gendered ads
Wiki annotations to a Munro
story
Use of data to inform
interpretation
whale
Ahab
Readers’ connections
Reviewers’ connections on Amazon:
Infinite Jest
Web 2.0 (Aghaei, Nematbakhsh.
& Farsani, IJWesTn, 2012)
Web 3.0 (Aghaei, Nematbakhsh.
& Farsani, IJWesTn, 2012)
