November 17 – 18 2008 Brunel University in London UK hosted an international conference on digital literacy.
International Conference on Digital Literacy: Pursuing Digital Literacy in the 21st Century
17 – 18 Novenber 2008
Brunel University, London UK
http://e-start.brunel.ac.uk/conference.aspx
"What may be the characteristics of the school in the 21st Century and what may be the role of digital media, tools, contents and equipment in this school? Responses to these exceedingly complicated and pedagogically stimulating questions usually range from the over-optimistic to the over-pessimistic. In any case, however, they always appear to induce thoughtful scepticism over issues that lie beneath debates and discussions about the modern school crisis, the need for educational reform and the innovative role and radical value of ICT use in education.
Starting from the acknowledgement that there are many different standpoints, this conference attempted to approach the challenging landscape of a newly established and highly promoted compound term, strongly related – if not identical – to ICT use in education, inextricably associated with the Media and Information Literacies, which is often described as the solution to the socio-economical, political and cultural problems involved in the phenomenon of 'digital divide', namely the term 'digital literacy'."
Conference Topics:
- Digital Literacy – Theoretical Frameworks
- Digital Literacy from Theory to Practice
- The pursuit of Digital Literacy in the practice of teaching and learning
- Digital Literacy: National Policies and National Curriculam
- Teacher Training and teacher education in Digital Literacy
- Digital Literacy and e-Inclusion
- Digital Literacy Ethics
- Digital Literacy: Formal and Informal Learning
- Developing Digital Literacy: Factors and Indicators