Further Defining Digital Literacies: The Ethics of Information Creation

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Further Defining Digital Literacies: The Ethics of Information Creation
Kevin Hodgson, Kevin's Meandering Mind, 2019/12/31
This post reflects on a revision of definition of Literacy in a Digital Age by the National Council of Teachers of English. In particular, it considers the act of "hitting 'send' or 'post' without thinking twice about what they are sending forward, and to whom, doing it on a whim." In short, writes Kevin, "this strand could be an entire semester course on ethical writing in an online world." The move from the one subject to the other is as seamless as any I have seen - but I have to ask, is ethics the same as literacy? Is being ethical part of being literate. More...