Digital Literacy – Then and Now, with Bryan Alexander

Bryan Alexander shares about digital literacy – then and now – on episode 144 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Most of us were not trained in participatory media, and we haven’t really integrated that into our teaching.
—Bryan Alexanderhttps://teachinginhighered.com/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=e0b1dd6dc9

A key part of digital literacy in the social age is that it is productive. We make stuff.
—Bryan Alexander

Technical skills are an unavoidable part of digital literacy.
—Bryan Alexander

The way we’ve constructed the mobile experience is often apart from the web.
—Bryan Alexander

Resources Mentioned

• Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC
• Web 2.0 and Emergent Multi-literacies
• Mozilla’s Web Literacy Map
• ”Creating a digital literacy report: The survey piece, Part 1” by Bryan Alexander
• Doug Belshaw
• Laura Gibbs – Teaching with Canvas Blog
• LinkedIn
• Pinterest
• A Rape in Cyberspace by Julian Dibbell
• Pinboard.in
• Diigo
• The Idle Words blog
• ”Stanford researchers find students have trouble judging the credibility of information online” by Brooke Donald
• Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?
• We Make the Road by Walking* by Myles Horton and Paulo Freire
• Future Trends in Technology and Education, Bryan’s newsletter

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