Creativity in Digital Literacy.

Digital literacy is" the ability to use “digital technology, communications tools, and/or networks to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information in order to function in a knowledge society. In other words, although reading, writing, listening, and speaking are paramount, today’s students must be able to decipher meaning and express ideas through a range of media(International ICT Literacy Panel, 2002,p. 2 cited in NCREL,2003,p.16 )".

"Digitization blurs the lines between text, voice, video, and data. Now they’re all just packets of electronic information across global networks(in NCREL,2003,p.16). 21st Century Skills: Literacy in the

Creativity Definition:

Creativity "is the skill of bringing about something new and valuable…Creative people do more than break away from old patterns. They do more than find alternatives. They diverge from familiar patterns, but then they converge on new solutions. They break laws to remake them. They make hard decisions about what to include and what to eliminate. Creative people innovate. They aim toward newness (Young 1985).

As Young( 1985) puts it "creativity involves three components: skills, newness and value". It is the skill of bringing about something new and valuable. it can be something that has skills, newness and value". It can be a natural gift but it can also be learned.

Creative thinking

"involves calling into question the assumptions underlying our customary, habitual ways of thinking and acting and then being ready to think and act differently on the basis of the critical questioning"(ECM College, Problem-Solving).

Creative Thinking involves

  • "Consider rejecting standardized formats for problem solving.
  • Have an interest in a wide range of related and divergent fields.
  • Take multiple perspectives on a problem.
  • Use trial-and-error methods in their experimentation.
  • Have a future orientation.
  • Have self-confidence and trust in their own judgment"(ECM College).

How can digital media be used in creativity in learning among my students?

Activity.

The purpose of this activity is to test students creativity in digital literacy.

Blogging Exercise.

Using digital media tools create a blog to make a diary entry of a summer holiday experience you enjoyed. Produce as much a creative blog as you can.

The blog should show the following elements:

  • skills,
  • newness
  • value.

References.

Digital Literacy. [Online]. Available at: Retrieved, 19th May, 2013.

ECM College Online. Available at: Retrieved, 19th May, 2013.

Young, J. G. (1985) Adventures in Creativity.[Online]. Available at: Retrieved, 19th May, 2013.