Module+6

**Social Co-Creation through Advanced Applications**
Putting on the Critical Lens - It's NOT about the technology...

We have reached the final frontier in our coursework for these last two weeks. We have spend a good bit of time reading about digital literacy, exploring tools that can help us create digital environments and thinking about how to integrate digital elements into our lessons. Technology is changing the world so quickly, it is hard to know what will be coming next. There are those that say that digital images are not the new literacy, but digital programming is. Two authors in this field share their ideas about this topic in the articles below.

Marc Prensky, "Programming is the New Literacy " Mitchel Resnik "As we see it, digital ﬂuency requires not just the ability to chat, browse, and interact but also the ability to design, create, and invent with new media..."

There are two image based programming languages that make this programming literacy seem possible for all. Scratch Alice

And beyond programming, there is Internet literacy. Looking at Marc Prensky's list of 21st Century Skills, challenges us to think about the fact that should we really be teaching technology "skills" at all?

Google's Chrome Browser and OS - changing the face of computing as we know it.

Tough ideas for teachers today as they were taught and modeled to in a 20th Century Classroom and are expected to teach in a 21st Century one!

Assignments for Module 6 (2)
 * Diigo Resource Link
 * Reflective Blog Post on Programming as a Digital Literacy.