digital skills

29/08/2022

The terrible assumptions of digital literacy

This post is about ridding ourselves of dumb assumptions about digital literacy – who knows about tech and who doesn’t. Mostly, all assumptions are wrong, and do harm to how society progresses as a digital community Recently I’ve been dealing with various projects that relate to digital skill and literacies, and am fairly overwhelmed at how many ignorant assumptions swirl...

Let’s talk about phones

I’ve just upgraded my phone, so thoughts about phones have been in my mind, on a personal level as well as the research. I’ve had a fair few phones over the years but this article isn’t about my historic ownership of phones so I won’t go into the awesome BT fold up phones of the mid nineties (though they were...

How to navigate your digital life

“How to navigate your digital life, or, how to avoid death by a thousand digital cuts.” Recent events have made me consider deeply how digital life affects each of us and how we navigate these unknown terrains, attempt to manage our interactions, needs and expectations, and how others in our networks manage their own lives that intertwine with ours. How...

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The terrible assumptions of digital literacy

Let’s talk about phones

Tag: digital skills

The terrible assumptions of digital literacy

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Let’s talk about phones

How to navigate your digital life