Literacy in the Digital Age

Literacy in the Digital Age Sarah Hunzeker

Literacy is not just how well a language is understood or a text is comprehended... in a world that is constantly changing, the meaning and goals of literacy are always shifting to accommodate those changes.

One aspect of literacy is visual literacy, which is the ability to construct meaning from visual images using exploration, critique, and reflection. Visual literacy skills include interpreting and producing images to communicate, reading and writing visual language, making judgments about validity, and using gestures, objects, signs and symbols accurately.

It is imperative to know how to critically read images, they are everywhere and there is always a message embedded within them.

Students need to be critical consumers of information they find on the internet. Critical thinking and digital literacy are deeply connected!

A second aspect of literacy is equity literacy, which is a framework for both multicultural curriculum development and bigger efforts to create equitable classrooms in schools.

Teachers' knowledge of equity is vital to students receiving an equitable education.

In my future English or art class, it will be of the utmost importance to me that students are constantly seeing connections to equity in their learning. I hope to demonstrate this through project-based learning, showing students both mirrors and windows in the curriculum, and bringing in multiple diverse guest speakers among other things.

Literacy skills are not solely meant to determine how you interpret new information. Being literate in practices that promote the success of all students what I believe to be the primary role of a teacher.

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Created with images by Annie Spratt - "untitled image" • Markus Spiske - "untitled image" • Iqbaal Maulana - "untitled image" • Viktor Juric - "untitled image" • KAL VISUALS - "untitled image" • Falaq Lazuardi - "untitled image" • KAL VISUALS - "untitled image" • Ryan Kwok - "untitled image" • KAL VISUALS - "untitled image" • Markus Spiske - "untitled image" • M Angie Salazar - "untitled image" • Tim Gouw - "untitled image" • Yustinus Tjiuwanda - "untitled image"