Stumbled upon this last week. Inanimate Alice is an educational website for 10 to 14 year olds. Through a series of 4 videos we follow the life of a child called Alice over a period of about 6 years. The interactive 'flash' videos are stunningly put together using beautiful graphics, powerful sound effects and music. Looks like a great resource to talk about digital literacy with pupils and plenty of opportunities for ICT to support literacy work. I could think about many exciting ways to use a presentation package like PowerPoint to support this work, along with rich opportunities for planning and creating video and digital images. Have any of you had experience of using it?
At a time when England have introduced digital literacy elements to their new Computing PoS, and with the recommendations from the ICT Steering Group report for a digital literacy framework alongside the new subject of Computing, I’ve been attempting to look closely into what exactly is meant by the term ‘digital literacy’, and ultimately what this could mean for primary and secondary schools in Wales. I intend to put together a series of blogs on the topic, mainly as a way to help me with my understanding around some of the current thinking in this field, but hopefully it will still be of interest to teachers and others. I'd welcome any of your thoughts or comments on this topic. The Context In June 2012, Leighton Andrews, the then Minister for Education and Skills, announced “an additional £3m of funding over the next three years to support a range of measures to improve computer science, digital literacy and ICT in schools and colleges across Wales.” This announcement came
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