Critical Digital Literacy: Technology in Education Beyond Issues of User Competence and Labour-Market Qualifications
The present contribution conducts an intervention in the study and practice of digital and media literacy. After reviewing key tenets of recent debates, I advance a specific understanding of the concept – critical digital literacy – that, as I argue, comprehensively addresses issues of knowledge, c...
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Paderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group
2019-08-01
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The present contribution conducts an intervention in the study and practice of digital and media literacy. After reviewing key tenets of recent debates, I advance a specific understanding of the concept – critical digital literacy – that, as I argue, comprehensively addresses issues of knowledge, competencies, and skills in relation to digital technologies. In particular, I posit that critical thinking about educational and other values of ‘the digital’ needs to take structural aspects of the technology into account that are often eschewed in instrumental or commercially-driven approaches. To prepare pupils for their future lives requires a widest possible contextualisation of technology, including issues of exploitation, commodification, and degradation in digital capitalism. Finally, I make concrete suggestions for constructive uses of technology in teaching and learning.
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| spelling | doaj-art-b74a1c1266cb49aa993aa1fc5952fab42025-08-20T03:59:36ZengPaderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research GrouptripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique1726-670X2019-08-0117210.31269/triplec.v17i2.10931093Critical Digital Literacy: Technology in Education Beyond Issues of User Competence and Labour-Market QualificationsHolger Pötzsch The present contribution conducts an intervention in the study and practice of digital and media literacy. After reviewing key tenets of recent debates, I advance a specific understanding of the concept – critical digital literacy – that, as I argue, comprehensively addresses issues of knowledge, competencies, and skills in relation to digital technologies. In particular, I posit that critical thinking about educational and other values of ‘the digital’ needs to take structural aspects of the technology into account that are often eschewed in instrumental or commercially-driven approaches. To prepare pupils for their future lives requires a widest possible contextualisation of technology, including issues of exploitation, commodification, and degradation in digital capitalism. Finally, I make concrete suggestions for constructive uses of technology in teaching and learning. https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1093digital literacyeducationtechnologydigital competencies and skillscritical approachesdigital capitalism |
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| title | Critical Digital Literacy: Technology in Education Beyond Issues of User Competence and Labour-Market Qualifications |
| title_full | Critical Digital Literacy: Technology in Education Beyond Issues of User Competence and Labour-Market Qualifications |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Critical Digital Literacy: Technology in Education Beyond Issues of User Competence and Labour-Market Qualifications |
| title_short | Critical Digital Literacy: Technology in Education Beyond Issues of User Competence and Labour-Market Qualifications |
| title_sort | critical digital literacy technology in education beyond issues of user competence and labour market qualifications |
| topic | digital literacy education technology digital competencies and skills critical approaches digital capitalism |
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