in response to this:
“The Horizon Report annually provides insights into the future trends and technologies in higher education. The 2015 edition has just come out – http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2015-nmc-horizon-report-HE-EN.pdf – and I am more than a little dismayed by the chapter on “Improving Digital Literacy,” (p 24-25). Apparently academia is now waking up to the reality that students are using technology, but not very effectively, for educational purposes. … They can’t even agree on a definition for “digital literacy,” but instead appear to be circling the wagons around the idea that students somehow need to learn how to use their phones, tablets and laptops with skill to deal with information intelligently. …
Am I just a curmudgeon, or are we still on the outside looking in on an academia struggling with issues for which we have solid answers?”
– William Badke
“What they fail to understand is that digital literacy (using technology) is a different beast from information literacy (using information). They lump the two together. I see digital literacy as the mechanics of using the computer – ie, how to push a button. But once they can use technology, then what? …how to apply that knowledge to other buttons? That’s information literacy. Lumping the two together may be efficient, but it does a disservice to… the work we do to help students move beyond the mechanics.”
from A. Rovner, librarian from Charlotte, NC