What is digital? What should be regarded as digital literacy? i am lost, to be frank! Some researchers gave so broad a definition that even "toys" that could talk are counted as "digital". I welcome the idea but still feel not confident about what it refers to? Multimodal? New Literacy? I don't know. All i could do is read, read, read and keep on reading!
But there is one thing that i do feel confident: it is the trend that technology highly involved into literacy learning, in particular with the widespread of tablets. It is a change that we are uncertain as we could not answer "to what end". Because of this uncertainty, some of us are afraid of this change, unwilling to cooperate. It is a mixed feelings toward technology used in language arts or any other disciplines. Well, we need to accomodate ourselves to the change, one way or another.
Another thing in my mind that i have to remind myself from time to time: technology is a means not an end. Ipad is supplemental or maybe parallel to prints, but neither of them would replace each other in a long run. Just like typewriter never replaces pencils, right! The question remains "to what extent?"
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