The uses of (digital) literacy
| Autor: | Julian McDougall, Mark Readman, Philip Wilkinson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Knowledge management business.industry Computer science 05 social sciences 050301 education Information technology 06 humanities and the arts Technological literacy Education Multinational corporation 0602 languages and literature Media Technology Program Design Language Action research business 0503 education Mobile device Competence (human resources) Digital literacy |
| Zdroj: | Learning, Media and Technology. 43:263-279 |
| ISSN: | 1743-9892 1743-9884 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17439884.2018.1462206 |
| Popis: | This article shares research facilitated by a multinational technology provider, converging mobile networked technology (tablets) used across school and home, a technology enhanced community ‘third space’ providing workshops for students aged 6-9 with their parents / carers. The approach taken avoids the instrumental measurement of functional digital literacy competences, but instead seeks to negotiate, with participants and the various stakeholders, a more nuanced and complex understanding of the ‘uses of literacy’ (from Hoggart, 1957) in digital contexts and in a deeply situated, specific local setting. Working with our findings, we later put Amartya Sen’s concept of capability (2005, 2008) to work on our data in order to provide a discussion on how the digital literacy community might distinguish digital competences as functionings from the ‘uses’ of such competences for a broader range of capabilities. Findings demonstrate initial successes in using networked mobile technology in bridging the school-family-community triad as a third space. However, the outcomes reveal the complexity and specificity of factors which restrict the potential for mobile technology in education to lead on to further reaching capabilities – delimiting the uses of digital literacy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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