Critical Digital Literacy: Technology in Education Beyond Issues of User Competence and Labour-Market Qualifications

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique

Holger Pötzsch¹ 

[1] Dept. of Language and CultureUiT Tromsø;

关键词: digital literacy;    education;    technology;    digital competencies and skills;    critical approaches;    digital capitalism;    practice;   

DOI  :  10.31269/triplec.v17i2.1093

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

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