14. Opportunities and Challenges as Creators, Consumers, Teachers & Learners

Here, Dr Emma Pauncefort surveys the different roles we can perform as a digitally literate citizen or ‘netizen’, both generally speaking and when wearing our education hats. Digital creation is placed at the heart of netizen-ship and counterbalanced with an overview of the extensive activity of bad actors online, including that which is state-sponsored.

She goes on to drill down into the key challenge we face as digital consumers: faced with a mass of content, we need to avoid the temptation to only engage with that material which reinforces our existing worldview. She ends by pointing to the unprecedented opportunity to teach – namely, become a digital creator in education – and learn – namely, become a digital consumer in education – once we have developed a level of digital literacy.

More videos from Module 2:

• Introducing the Digital & Literacy
• What is our Digital World?
• What does our Digital World contain?
• A lot of Information (or is that data?)
• Media Reinvented Online: Wikipedia and the Reference Resource
• Media Reinvented Online: News
• Media Invented Online: Social Media
• Introducing the Concept Digital Literacy
• Digital Literacy (the theory)
• Digital Literacy (in practice)
• Opportunities and Challenges: Digital Literacy and Society