Digital Literacy

The article we read talked about education institutions focusing on, and more readily pursuing means of, expanding students’ literacy skills through technology. The article talked about the need to instill in students the knowledge of how to locate information on the internet, and also interpret what significance the information actually holds in accordance to modern life and society.

The reality of the situation; however, is that schools have not implemented programs or curriculum designed to meet these needs in the public school system. Instead, they are slowly remediating into a Cro-Magnon system of trivial learning and an un-applicable curriculum.

One suggested resolution to promote media literacy in American public education systems, is to develop a new form of literacy involving critical thinking. This curriculum would focus on trying to make students "read, listen, see, and think," constructively with complex new modes of delivering information, new multisensory tactics for persuasion, and technology- based art forms. In other words, the "new" educational thought is to go back to the oldest form of learning, hands on.