Infused Lesson Plans with Digital Literacies

The Digital Age has brought us the following literacy types:

No.	Literacy Type	Description and Application
1.	Layered Literacy	Describes the way that print and digital overlap one another.
2.	Intertextuality	Created as a result of overlap between prints and digitals
3.	Transliteracy	Offers the capacity to read and write across a variety of media formats
4.	Electracy	Involves pedagogical skills essential for new digital skills
5.	Digital Citizenship	This gives rights and responsibilities of an individual within the digital world.

With these developments in the digital age, we dare need not to go back to yesterday, because we were different persons by then.

 

It is becoming increasingly important to know how digital literacy affects us the teachers and the learners. We therefore, need to translate these into some values to the learners. This can easily be done through:

(i)           use of Digital Sound, Moving Images, Digital Texts and manipulating Still Images.

(ii)          Learning how to summarize texts and write reports by teachers.

(iii)         Using any other additional related resources.

(iv)         Use of different learning activities that can be used to help students develop digital literacy skills.

I now think that it’s much better at this digital age not to predict the future but to task our selves simply to be able to plan, manage what there is and to be able to work tirelessly at creating what should and what could be done using digital Literacies in our infused lessons.

Ciao!