Digital literacy grows throughout the lifespan
What is digital literacy?
Literacy is contextualized within the framework of processes involving awareness of oral, written, or audiovisual language, as well as their transformations when they are used. A review on what digital literacy means in the contemporary world is found in our book Expressions of the Future. How the next generations will communicate (in Spanish).
Promoting digital literacy
These are some of the main ideas supporting our activities to promote digital literacy:
- Trying to make people aware of the discourses they use, which are considered tools for understanding the world.
- Focusing on factors that are specific to educational situations that help generate audiovisual productions in the digital worlds.
- Considering these creations as an expression of cultural heritage.
- Assuming the processes of production and reception as interlinked.
To know more
“The use of smartphones and tablets opens up possibilities in terms of communication that were unthinkable just a few years ago. Screens and images have generated a new landscape that demands new skills. In this context it is not enough to communicate orally or in writing, people need to master new discourses. ”