Digital Literacy: Skills for the 21st Century – Digital Literacy Toolkit
EDC’s Center for Children and Technology created a website for teachers and students to help promote digital literacy. The interactive website, Digital Literacy: Skills for the 21st Century – Digital Literacy Toolkit, includes online tutorials and activities that emphasize the different uses of media and their powers of persuasion. The site focuses on the grammar of sounds, images, and animation for learners who are both consumers and producers. The site is particularly useful for the critical analysis of videos, propaganda, and digital communications. It is also a good primer for aspiring producers of digital media.
The site represents just one of the many projects and reports that the organization produces based on educational research and development. CCT investigates the roles that technology can play in improving teaching and learning within children’s classrooms, schools and communities. They also design and develop technology applications that support engaged, active learning and student-centered teaching practices.