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Project Statement

We chose a tumblr page as the best medium to communicate our ideas on the subject because it reflects the five types of literacy under the umbrella term of digital literacy- reproduction, branching, information, photo-visual, and socio-economics. Another reason for selecting this format is that it allowed for our group members to collaborate over distance and time and for each member of the group to submit their own research independently of others. The result is a page of curated content spanning a broad range of digital media formats including gifs, infographics, blog posts, videos, and podcasts to further illustrate what it means to be literate in digital communications.

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Leaving A Digital Footprint

Another thing to be aware of with digital literacy is remembering that whatever site or social media that you use you are leaving a digital footprint behind. Your information, searches, and privacy is on the internet forever. This is the downside of using digital technology, websites, media accounts and more. This is a good thing to remember especially for people who are new to using technology and something that young students and parents should be mindful of. - Kiera

Heick, T., & About The Author TeachThought Staff TeachThought is an organization dedicated to innovation in education through the growth of outstanding teachers. (2021, November 23). 12 tips for students to manage their digital footprints. TeachThought. Retrieved December 7, 2021, from https://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/digital-footprints/.

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How We Created This Project

We utilized a number of collaborative online tools for creating this project. Here is a look at the google doc we used for organizing our ideas.

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This is a quiz from Pew Research Center to test knowledge of digital topics

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This podcast offers insights into the basics of digital literacy and digital citizenship. 

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James Paul Gee and “New Literacy”

James Paul Gee suggests that we need to broaden our conception of literacy for two reasons. First, language is not the only we communicate today as evidenced by numerous visual and symbolic forms of communication. Second, the act of reading and writing is not as simple as it first appears. Gee states, “When you read, you are always reading something in some way. You are never just reading “in general” but not reading anything in particular. For example, you can read the Bible as history or literature or as a self-help guide or in many other ways. So, too, with any other text, whether legal tract, comic book, essay, or novel. Different people can interpret each type of text differently.” Gee describes New Literacy studies as “a body of work that argues that reading and writing should be viewed not only as mental achievements going on inside people’s heads but also as social and cultural practices with economic, historical, and political implications.”

SOURCES:

Gee, J. P. (1990). Social linguistics and literacies: Ideology in discourses. London: Falmer Press.

Gee, J. P. (2008). What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy, revised and updated. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

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About Our Webpage Background

The background image of our website represents the various icons and symbols that make up a sort of universal language of the digital world. Some of these symbols have become so ubiquitous in everyday life that they may be understood by children or folks with a very basic level of digital literacy. I utilized a library of icons from the WSU IT department web press kit and created a repeated pattern using Adobe Illustrator, making the canvas large enough to cover the entire background on most web browsers. 

-Nick Powell

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On my computer, I store a bunch of texts and images in a folder and then I give that folder a name in terms of which I can retrieve all those texts and images.  This is also how a word works.  A word—say, for example, the word “democracy”—is a “file name” in terms of which a human being retrieves a bunch of “texts” and images from his or her head.   What are these mental “texts” and images?  They are mental records of experiences we have had, images and media we have seen, dialogue we have heard, and texts we have read that are “filed” under “democracy”.

James Paul Gee

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The written word endures, the spoken word disappears.

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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Participation Gap

”The lack of quality opportunities for students to use technology to enhance their learning and develop skills is what’s known as the participation gap” - Vox

People are not taking full advantage of technology because they don’t know how to to take full advantage of it. There are people falling behind because of this in the digital world

- logan

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What is a Digital Citizenship?

This is the responsibility you take up when you join the digital world.

- learning how to use technology

- staying safe on the internet

- knowing how to use certain social media apps, how to stay safe and get the content you want from those specific apps

--- logan

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-Madison Benning

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The Digital Divide - Generational

From this infographic we are able to see which generation owns which technological device the most. Another reason for the digital divide is because of the younger vs older and their knowledge with technology from what time period they were born in. This research is from 2011 so the data is a little outdated but to see how much it has changed since then is fascinating. -Kiera

Here is another infographic explaining which device is most used between generations from 2005 to 2019 - 

I would suggest to click the links below to learn more about how each generation uses technology in a digital age. - Kiera

1st Infographic - Zickuhr, K. (2020, May 30). Generations and their gadgets. Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech. Retrieved December 4, 2021, from https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2011/02/03/generations-and-their-gadgets/.

2nd Infographic - Vogels, E. A. (2020, September 23). Millennials stand out for their technology use, but older generations also Embrace Digital Life. Pew Research Center. Retrieved December 4, 2021, from https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/09/us-generations-technology-use/.

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Who Does the Digital Divide Effect? - In the U.S.

Click the link below to read the statistics and research of how the digital divide is impacting the Unites States. - Kiera

https://open.library.okstate.edu/learninginthedigitalage/chapter/the-digital-divide/