Wk 1: Orientation to course: Digital literacy

I signed up for this course partly because I wanted to do an 'enrichment' module. To me that would be something different that the usual module with lots of readings, presentations and essays to write as assignments. Hmm...but it turned out that I still would have to read and present but the assignment modes are slightly different :) AND I get to start a blog, which I did yesterday.

Last week in class we were asked what we understood by the term 'literacy'. To me that refers to the ability to read and write efficiently in a language. But what is digital literacy then? My guess was... to be able to read and write with the use of ICT????

I'm kind of glad to hear that I need not be ICT savvy or very IT literate to sign up for this course. I was hoping that the course would somehow hone my ICT skills along the way....you know like getting a 2-in-1 kind of thing? Honestly, I'm worried about the digital story assignment, I don't really know what that means. I guess more info will come our way.

As for the discussion about the Internet and google, I think it's quite thought-provoking: like what Dr Towndrow said, whose information? whose knowledge? I'm of the notion that the computer is supposed to know everything. But the question we were asked to reflect on: what is everything? whose definition of everything?
I've been telling my kids "go google it" whenever they ask me something and I'm not too sure how to explain or just dont feel like explaining. But now I'm not so sure if that's a wise thing to do.........