Digital Literacy
Digital literacy is a key part of how we communicate today. It isn’t just about words on a page anymore—it also includes images, videos, sounds, and design choices. In school, this is clear. Projects often go beyond essays and include PowerPoint, Canva presentations, or short videos. Each type requires different skills. Choosing the right layout or matching visuals with writing is just as important as the content itself. These skills teach students to think about how their message is received, not just what they say.
Social Media
Social media makes this even clearer. A TikTok or meme is never just a joke—it conveys a message that spreads quickly because of its design. Noticing tone, visuals, or music has taught me how meaning can be layered. At the same time, I feel pressure to manage how I present myself online, which is another example of digital rhetoric. Social media shows that communication is interactive and constantly evolving, requiring critical thinking and creativity.
Teaching and the Future
Digital literacy is the ability to communicate effectively by combining text, visuals, and design, making both content and presentation important in school and everyday life.
As a future teacher, I see how these experiences matter in the classroom. Students already use digital media every day, so teaching these skills as part of literacy shows how school connects to real life. Helping students understand how words, images, and videos work together—and giving them chances to create—makes learning more relevant. Digital literacy builds on traditional reading and writing, and preparing students for that reality is essential. By integrating these tools into lessons, teachers can make learning engaging and meaningful while equipping students for the digital world.
- About the Class
- Connections
- Mediums
- New Media
- New Media and Literacy
- Preparation (Wk 0): Privacy & Agency on the Web
- Refining Terms
- Speaking, Writing, and Literacy
- Text
- The (Late) Age of Print
- Topic 1: Digital Situationships
- Traditional Writing
- Uncategorized
- Wk 09: Multimodality & Visual Rhetorics
- Wk 1: Writing & Rhetoric, Tech & Texts
- Wk 12: The Rhetoric, Metaphors, and Persuasion of AI
- Wk 2: Digital v Material, Hypertextual v Connected
- Wk 3: Context: Rhetorical Situations, Networks, & Circulation
- Wk 4: Interfaces & Affordances
- Wk 5: Algorithms, Platforms, & Data
- Wk 6: Attention, Persuasion, Resistance
- Wk 7: Identity, Culture, Sovereignty
- Wk 8: Accessibility as Rhetoric/Justice
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