The United Nations’ (UN) International Literacy Day annually falls on September 8 to raise people’s awareness of and concern for literacy issues in the world. UNESCO’s banners for the event feature the words “Literacy is the best remedy Literacy is a fundamental human right and the foundation for lifelong learning. It is fully essential to social and human development in its ability to transform lives. For individuals‚ families‚ and societies alike‚ it is an instrument of empowerment to improve
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‘Will the challenges emerging with digital knowledge contexts‚ for which digital literacy is being deployed‚ open new horizons for the human art of thinking and creating knowledge?’ (Belisle 2006‚ p.55). Reference: Harvard Style Knowledge can be interpreted in different ways where one scholar defines knowledge as a learnt education another interprets knowledge as intelligence. Knowledge is continuing a process commencing at birth. Belisle (2006) states Knowledge is much more than the transmitted
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* Merits and Demerits of Digital technology in still photography. Digital Technology: A digital system is a technology that uses discrete‚ discontinuous representations of information or works in a discontinuous manner. This is contrasted with continuous‚ or analog systems which behave in a continuous manner‚ or represent information using a continuous function. Although digital representations are discrete‚ the information represented can be either discrete‚ such as numbers and letters or continuous
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The terms ‘Digital Native’ and ‘Digital Immigrant’ were coined by Marc Prensky in the essay he had written in 2001. Digital Natives were defined as students that were born into the digital age‚ their lives are immersed into technology and are the “‘native speakers’ of the digital language of computers‚ video games and the internet” (Prensky M‚ 2001‚ pp. 1). Digital Immigrants are individuals who were not born into the digital world but have come into contact with technology at one point in their
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The real world isn’t either analog or digital‚ but both. Analog and digital signals are mathematical representations of reality and is useful when we want to process information. We can recognize whether or not something is analog or digital by wave forms. Digital signals often show square shapes and analog shows no obvious pattern but sometimes shows a recognizable shape like a sine wave. Because of this‚ we can sometimes form an opinion about the type of signal by recognizing wave forms. There
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Principles and Theories of Digital Storytelling – ESGD714 Principles and Theories of Digital Storytelling Digital Stories are an effective vehicle for imparting knowledge to the reader in an engaging and inspiring method. In this essay‚ I will investigate and explain the Principles and Theory of Digital Storytelling‚ How Digital Storytelling can be used in the classroom and what possibilities for the future there are in education for Digital Storytelling. “Digital Storytelling is the practice
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Literacy Our very first lesson is to become literate in the language we speak from reading alphabets to novels‚ we try to achieve literacy. Many people have come to believe that there are many ways to achieve literacy. However‚ some of the greatest public speakers and writers did not achieve it through the way most people did. This is illustrated in the literary work of Malcolm X‚ Sherman Alexie and Anne Lamott. According to these people‚ literacy isn’t achieved by simply going to school. It’s achieved
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In Marc Prensky’s “Digital Natives‚ Digital Migrants‚ Part II: Do They Really Think Differently?”‚ he discusses the implications of living in a more modern or‚ as the author says‚ a “digital” world. Prensky claims that today’s students respond to a different learning process as compared with the prior generations of students. He suggests that teachers invent educational‚ yet fun‚ games in the place of old teaching methods to make the learning process more efficient and entertaining. However‚ this
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“Digital identity has been referred to by many different terms including: online identity‚ online personality‚ digiSelf‚ virtual identity‚ avatar and online persona” (Koosel 149). These terms all bring up the same meaning; computer users create a new identity for themselves on the Internet. The reason for creating digital identities on the Internet is liberation‚ because Internet gives liberation to the users. Real identities can only create these digital identities only on the internet‚ because
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A digital signature is an electronic signature that can be used to authenticate the identity of the sender of a message or the signer of a document. The basic idea behind digital signature is the same as handwritten signature. A digital signature doesn’t involve signing something with a pen and paper then sending to the receiver. But like a paper signature‚ it attaches the identity of the signer to a transaction. When transferring important documents it is often necessary to certify in a reliable
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