Lra belshaw discussant

Web literaciesRichard Beach

Belshaw, The Essential

Elements of Digital Literacies Skills are not learned in isolation but

rather developed within a context. Literacies are plural and not neutral

when it comes to power, social identity and political ideology.

There is a continuum of skills, through competencies up to literacies.

Literacies are best taught when the learner can see the whole picture of what they are learning and where they are going (‘progressive encoding’).

Belshaw: 8 Essential Digital

Literacies1. Cultural

2. Cognitive

3. Constructive

4. Communicative

5. Confident

6. Creative

7. Critical

8. Civic

Recontextualization (Van

Leeuwen, 2008) Learning “memes”: Connectivism

(Stephen Downes):

“Knowledge is a network phenomenon, to

“know” something is to be organized in a

certain way, to exhibit patterns of

connectivity. To “learn” is to acquire

certain patterns. This is as true for a

community as it is for an individual.”

Nexus analysis: Meaning of

memes

Transaction: Experiential

learning and tool use (McLain,

2014) “Replicant” apps

◦ replicate or reify ways of learning made

possible by other tools such as flash-

cards or calculators.

“Extender” apps “

◦ “extend the learning experience in ways

not otherwise possible except through

app technology” (p. 196), fostering

alternative learning experiences made

possible through app affordances.

Rap Genius: Annotations

Annotation: Kurt Corbane

letter

VoiceThread: Multiple audiences

share responses to images

Mozilla: “Teaching Kits”: Remix:

Gendered ads

Wiki annotations to a Munro

story

Voyant: www.voyeurtools.org Analysis

of Moby Dick

Use of data to inform

interpretation

whale

Ahab

Readers’ connections

Reviewers’ connections on Amazon:

Infinite Jest

Web 2.0 (Aghaei, Nematbakhsh.

& Farsani, IJWesTn, 2012)

Web 3.0 (Aghaei, Nematbakhsh.

& Farsani, IJWesTn, 2012)