Web Literacy

Information Literacy
New Literacies
Digital Literacy
Prepared by:
Jay Anne R. Olano BSED SCIENCE 3-2
Maybelle B. Parcon BSED Science 3-2
Regina M. Panerio BSED Science 3-2
Roselet P. Apinado BSED Science 3-2
Web Literacy
• Handling content and collaboration safely and productively online.
• The ability to read, write, and participate on the Web
Advantages of Web Literacy
• Unlocks the same opportunities such as reading and writing
• The student who is able to create online has a limitless array of
tools
• The student who is able to collaborate with peers on the Web can
bring fresh, new perspectives to their work.
• When students are web literate, information becomes more
accessible, and learning becomes more dynamic
Web literacy is empowering. And for that reason, it
can’t be ignored. But too often, students
encounter a ‘read-only’ Web — one where content
is consumed, but not created.

So, how do we fix that?

First, by teaching students how to read, write and participate online in the
best way possible: through hands-on, experiential learning. The Web
doesn’t lend itself to textbook and blackboard-style teaching. Students
are best prepared to achieve web literacy when they’re actively typing,
hyperlinking and sharing as they go.
• For example: when an educator is teaching the difference between
reliable and unreliable online content, students should be sifting through
search engine results. And when an educator is teaching the basics of
HTML, students should craft a sentence or two on their own and watch it
come to life on the screen — even if they’re simply adding italics or a
paragraph break. If Internet access is scarce, it shouldn’t be a hindrance.
Students can sketch out HTML tags or storyboard a web page with pad
and pencil.
Information Literacy
• Locating, interpreting, organizing, and sharing information
appropriately
Advantages of Information Literacy
• forms the basis for lifelong learning.
• It enables learners to master content and
extend their investigations, become more self-
directed, and assume greater control over
their own learning.
• includes the ability to identify, find, evaluate,
and use information effectively.
• From effective search strategies to evaluation
techniques, students learn how to evaluate
the quality, credibility, and validity of
websites, and give proper credit.
Why teach it? Help your students…
Learn effective techniques for evaluating the quality and credibility of
websites.
Think critically about the intentions of commercial websites and advertising.
Apply different search strategies to increase the accuracy and relevance of
online search results.
Too often, students who are looking for information online— particularly for
their schoolwork — conduct an oversimplified search that leads to millions of
results. With a sea of information at their fingertips, it is crucial for young
people to think about how they search and what they find online. As a teacher,
you can help your students develop strategies for uncovering accurate,
relevant, and quality information — whether conducting online research for
school projects or exploring their personal interests.
Through Information Literacy instruction,
students learn to:​
✓ Recognize the need for information and determines the nature and
extent of the information needed.
✓ Find needed information effectively and efficiently.
✓ Critically evaluate information and the information seeking process.
Manage information collected or generated.
✓ Apply prior and new information to construct new concepts or create
new understandings.
✓ Use information with understanding and acknowledge cultural,
ethical, economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of
information.
Steps of information literacy are as follows:
1.Define. The first is that you have to define your need, your problem, or
the question. You have to know what information you need.

2. Find. The second step is being able to find the information; locate it,
access it, and retrieve it. You can do that from a variety of sources. These
sources include print which are books, magazines and texts; electronic
means; or human information sources, meaning we ask someone, ask a
expert, or ask a colleague.

3. Evaluate. Once you have the information, then you need to assess the
credibility of it. Just because you have the information at your fingertips
does not mean it is good information. Is it the information that you need? Is
it valid? Is it reliable?
4. Organize. You then have to organize that information so you can
use it. If you have ever Googled something, you know you can get a
million hits and you have to figure out if you got the best
information, and organize everything that you have compiled.

5. Communicate. The last step of information literacy is

communicating that information. You have to communicate it
appropriately to whomever; a client, colleague, doctor or the
community. You have to make sure you are doing that both legally
and ethically.
New Literacies
• refer to new forms of literacy made possible by digital technology
developments

Commonly recognized
examples include:
* instant messaging
* blogging
* social networking
* podcasting
* photo sharing
* digital storytelling
* conducting online searches
Pros To New Literacies
 Innovative thinking can occur through the use of technology
 Inclusion for all students in the classroom
 Higher student engagement
 Technology integration
 Easily transferred to home life or other social networks of friends
 Community connections
 Meaning making
 Students reading more frequently
 Students reading for longer periods of time
 Development of critical thinking
 Increase in fluency
 Development of vocabulary
 Broadening a students schema
 Collaboration through literacy instruction

Cons To New Literacies

Sufficient funds for schools to purchase materials and equipment needed
Does the reader maintain full engagement while being involved in the text
Lack of preparation from the educator to utilize technology properly
Consistency in authentic and appropriate text for students
Ensuring the safety of your students through the use of the internet
That the technology is not equipped to meet the Common Core Standards requested
by the state.
• That the technology is not equipped to meet the Common Core
Standards requested by the state.
• Little consistency in multimedia formatting of information
• Little in the way of quality control of information that is constructed
and communicated
• Amount of information can be overwhelming
• Many resources are out of date or have not been updated for years
• Digital manipulation is a popular form of deception
• Information for kids is intertwined with hidden social, economic
and political agendas
Digital literacy
• means having the skills you need to live, learn, and work in a society where
communication and access to information is increasingly through digital
technologies like internet platforms, social media, and mobile devices.
Example of digital Literacy
• Digital literacy is the ability to navigate various digital platforms and understand, assess
and communicate through them. When you read a book on a Kindle, consider the accuracy
of a news report linked in your social media newsfeed or create and share a YouTube video,
you are displaying digital literacy.

• Globally, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) frames its
benchmarks for digital literacy around six standards:
• creativity and innovation
• communication and collaboration
• research and information fluency
• critical thinking
• problem solving and decision making
• digital citizenship
Types of digital Literacy
More simply, Hiller Spires, a professor of literacy and technology at
North Carolina State University, views digital literacy as having three
buckets:
1) finding and consuming digital content;
2) creating digital content;
3) communicating or sharing it.
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