Module 6: The Changing Nature Of Literacy

Question 1

Digital literacy

Answer 1

To be able to both produce and consume information. Changes how we learn, since everything is reality available online.

Question 2

Critical competence

Answer 2

Critically analyze and transform texts by acting on knowledge. Maintaining a questioning frame of mind

Question 3

Critical literacy

Answer 3

The ability to critically analyze a text for validity. What values underlie the text? Assumptions it contains? Ideas it omits? Whose interest does it serve?

Know that there’s always more than one version or perspective

Question 4

What does literacy allow?

Answer 4

Allows information to persist, so that ideas can accumulate and be accessed across time and space