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Literacy in a digital education world and peripheral issues.
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Teaching Digital Literacy Without Technology | The Remind101 Blog

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For years, teaching technology concepts has been a process that required a device in order to teach. Students learned about computers in computer class. Computer class was a stand alone course that rarely integrated with the content area subjects beyond research and word processing. However, times have changed. Digital competencies are threaded throughout the fabric of K-12, higher education, and the global economy. It’s imperative that schools begin to integrate digital literacy throughout the K-12 curriculum and across all content areas.

However, teaching digital literacy does not require devices at all. In fact, there are so many ways to learn digital skills offline.

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How to reach the many offline students

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Educators cannot assume that all young people are old hands online, research shows

 

Academics and university administrators may be struggling to keep up with social media, but research shows that the digital divide is not just generational. It is racial, ethnic and socio-economic, and there are even differences in the way that men and women communicate online.

That imbalance could affect efforts to recruit, retain and teach under-represented students, according to the US academic who led the work

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