In our increasingly flat, information-rich world, the skill of locating information has become as important as the skill of memorizing information.  With more than one trillion pages on the web, finding and managing digital data can certainly be challenging.  Our fourth Digital Literacy topic, effective search strategies, divides this vast concept into two manageable, fundamental [...]

Last week we officially began our year-long 7th Grade Digital Citizenship Program.  Using Bailey and Ribble’s work as a guide, the first topic the students, teachers, and parents explored was Digital Access.  Typically defined as “full electronic participation in society,” the access issue for our community is not one of being able to participate but [...]

The third topic in our Digital Literacy course, social bookmarking, is one that I touched on earlier this year when I wrote about social networking.  All Middle School teachers use Delicious, and the seventh grade students now have individual accounts as well.  To fully utilize a tool like Delicious, however, requires understanding the concept of [...]