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.