Critical Digital Literacy: Technology in Education Beyond Issues of User Competence and Labour-Market Qualifications
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https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v17i2.1093Keywords:
digital literacy, education, technology, digital competencies and skills, critical approaches, digital capitalism, practiceAbstract
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.
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