My understanding of Digital Literacy

4.4.4 Reflect on my understanding of Digital Literacy

Digital Literacy is the ability for learners to access, engage, evaluate, analyse, and use digital technology in responsible environment. It is important to note that infusing digital literacy in classroom needs the learners to have the norms and appropriate responsible behavior with regards to technology use which we term as Digital Citizenship. It is a way to prepare the learners to fit in the society full of technology. So learners needs to be guide as to how they can put technology into use, how to work as a team, and how to improve their communication skills using the varsity of information and resources offered by technology.

One of the area in digital literacy which is new to my understanding is the visual representation of information. People normally communicate using signs, words, and other means suitable and available. In visual representation type of communication, illustrations plays a big role in depicting what what the communication is all about. People can illustrate by using images, colors, texts but in a design form and many other form depending on the designers.

Bellow are example of the visual representation of information.

   Using illustrations is a very important aspect  in communication, you don't need to read in order to understand some of the information. You just look at the illustrations and you automatically know what the sign post or advert and what ever  is all about. So it is important to the Educators to employing images in their illustrations.                                                                            
  

A Digital Literacy Infused Lesson

A Digital Literacy Infused Lesson  

First and foremost let us understand what Digital literacy is all about. I have learnt that a lesson which involve digital technology in a responsible environment is the one termed to be, a digital infused lesson. In short Digital literacy is the ability for learners to access, engage, evaluate, analyse and use digital technology effectively. Most of the lessons which infuse digital technology gear up the learners thus improving their communication skills, team working,collaborating to mention but a few. We should know that the more the learners engage and employ digital medias, It help the to broaden their understanding ability and internalizing what they have studied. 

I managed to view two lessons, one from the media and gender Gr 3-5 picture perfect. This lesson had a project aimed to improve the children s internet reach skills particularly their ability to access of digital resources. This project explored the use of digital video cameras to support the development of descriptive language and effective communication.

 The way i see this lesson, learners like and enjoy what they are doing thus helping them to internalize and work as a team. 

The second lesson was about telecommunication in teaching  classroom-to- classroom collaboration. This lesson the learners engage in higher level thinking through collaborating, using emails to collaborate, Audio to compare and contrast, internet to research, digital camera for multimedia and many others. These two lessons infuse digital literacy and also educate about digital citizenship.

Digital citizenship is the norms of appropriate responsible behavior with regard to technology use. it is away to prepare the learners to fit in the society full of technology. Most of schools in Uganda don't infuse digital technology nor educate about digital citizenship.