Flewitt, R; Lemos, G; (2015) Let's chat about digital literacy! Digital Literacy hot topics discussed in our ELINET expert's chat. [Digital scholarly resource]. https://elinet.pro/

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This paper discusses how digital technology is a feature of everyday life in the 21st century, with emergent technology devices constantly re-configuring possibilities for communication and for knowledge flows. The changes in everyday literacy practices brought about by the miniaturisation, mobility and ubiquitous use of digital technologies are as profound as the changes brought about by the invention of the printing press (Kress, 2003). They have inescapable implications for young children, not only for their early literacy development, but also in terms of how education can help to equip today’s young citizens for a digitally connected future (Säljö, 2010). Yet the effects of emergent technologies for young children is a hotly debated topic, and there is a “climate of anxiety that surrounds new technology and [creates] a fiercely polarised debate in which panic and fear often drown out evidence” (Byron, 2008., p.1). Rather than being viewed as victims of new technologies, young children should be seen as emerging specialists in design and communication, who use a range of modes (such as words, images and sound) with a variety of literacy tools, both traditional and digital, from their first months of life.

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