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I used to blog with some frequently. Find old entries at JAG-wire.blogspot.com.
As my dissertation progresses I find less and less time to blog. As a result, I've decided to spruce this site up with a selection from the draft. Feedback welcome, of course.
Dissertation Preview: Critical and Creative Digital Literacy
Ordinarily when I say digital literacy, I am careful to premise it with the descriptors critical and creative, terms that, upon first impression, might seem a little ambiguous. After all, each word has at least two meanings. In this case the use of the word critical could give the impression that this is an essential or important incarnation of digital literacy, and I would argue it very well may be, but my main intention is to invoke the analytic meaning of the word: to interrogate, deconstruct and discern value. Likewise creative is often read in the sense of creativity, the process of hatching worthy and original ideas, which actually would lend itself to the critical component, which requires some measure of divergent thinking. Instead I don’t require that creative include uniqueness or discovery, just conscientious construction of objects and ideas, with the possibility that they may also be innovative or even deviant. Such distinctions provoke a preamble, this section jumps into digital literacy as it is seen in recent literature and lands squarely in the definition that inspires my proposal...
Previous Intellectualish Blog Posts
- Reconciling My Inner-BUT man (amicability, happiness, prejudice, concentric circles of concern, and a challenge)
- Rattling the Empowerment Saber (defining empowerment, tackling motivation, assertiveness and happiness)
- Timeless Time. Or timeless BS?? (attacking Castells' vision of time)
- Intentionally Empathic (research and intent)
- Musings with Tom Fairbank (what drives passionate people?)
- A Plan for Mentoring in Community Informatics: Cohorts
- Meandering Thoughts (Facebook was easy)
- Connectors, Revisited (Malcolm Gladwell style)
- Bloglets (Babies in the Doc Study, Urban Prairie Archeology, My Digital Literacy)
- You are Missed...
- Shotgun Blast (assertiveness, TV, introversion and ICT's, value in creation, election information)
- Excitement Refresh (Facebook ruins romance)
- Facebook Friends, False Connections and Social Norms
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