“Idit Harel Caperton (www.worldwideworkshop.org) has been working with a variety of middle schools and high schools in West Virginia and Texas to develop digital literacies based on the Globaloria Web platform. […] The aim is to instill six learning abilities essential to success in college and the workplace:
- The ability to invent, work through, and complete an original digital project for an educational Web game or interactive stimulation.
- The ability to manage a project online in a wiki-based networked environment.
- The ability to create digital media artifacts using wikis, blogs, and websites and to publish and distribute these artifacts online.
- The ability for social-based learning, participation, and exchange across age groups and levels of expertise in a networked environment.
- The ability to use information as a learning tool, to search for information purposefully, and to explore information.
- The ability to surf websites and experiment with Web applications and tools.
These are the kinds of new literacies that will be required in the digital world our children are entering—and they are the kinds of literacies few children acquire in school.” (pp. 177-178)
Collins, A. & Halverson, R. (2015) The functionality of literacy in a digital world. In R. Spiro, M. DeSchryver, M. Hagerman, P. Morsink, & P. Thompson (Eds.), Reading at a crossroads? Disjunctures and continuities in current conceptions and practices (pp. 172 -179). New York: Routledge.
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