Justification

In The Journal of Media Literacy (2010),

Richard Beach writes,

"Teachers need to be able to justify the inclusion of

digital literacy activities

in their classes in terms of how these activities contribute to both

I AGREE

Some of the same skills apply

Font type: italics (emphasis)

vs.

blue underined (link)

Skimming and scanning for key information (headers, graphics, etc.)

Search result vs.

book index

Motivation

Many students are not motivated to write print-based texts.

Digital media is exciting and intrinsically motivating. And they take as much--or more--effort to produce.

This presentation is taking longer to produce than a 3 page essay.

And more people will read it.

Identifying main idea in a video vs. print narrative

Identifying the main idea of a video might force students to look at the whole context, rather than pointing to the first sentence of a paragraph.

Digial literacies can complement print-based literacies

print

and

digital

literacies."