Considerations of Digital Learning (For Now and the Future)

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright. Sean Covey   If I could create a space that reflected my vision for the world, it would be a “Media making-lab” for K12 students. This lab would include access to quality training, equipment, studio, and production spaces that enables media-makers, learners, and students to respond to, engage with, and reflect their world, culture, and experiences.  In many ways, such spaces already exist. I think that media making is almost as equally important as creativity in spaces that design and develop technological skills. Today, people are building businesses and enterprises through open access media platforms such as YouTube and Vimeo, text and image based social media sites, and audio distribution platforms.  The opportunities for equity and agency via skills in media making for personal gain, creative expression, educational growth, and entrepreneurial end...

  In considering practices and concepts of literacy in digital contexts I am led to consider two principles that can result in effective literacy education and practices.  Sustainability: Which theories and models have the potential to effectively account for the evolution of literacy and technology?. Inclusiveness: What are viable and realistic steps to delivering digital literacy instruction and learning opportunities that meet the needs of all learners?   Let’s consider “where we are and where we want to be.” Let’s think about the future. References to Review:  Hutchison, A., & Reinking, D. (2011). Teachers’ Perceptions of Integrating Information and Communication Technologies Into Literacy Instruction: A National Survey in the United States. Reading Research Quarterly, 46 (4), 312-333. doi:10.1002/rrq.002 Street, B. (2003). What’s “new” in new literacy studies? Critical approaches to literacy in theory and practice. Current Issues in Comparative Educati...