Students’ day-to-day engagements with technologies: rethinking digital literacies

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Martin Oliver

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This paper reports on the conceptual development of ‘digital literacy’. This is framed in terms of background studies and theory, and then evidence is presented from a study that explores students’ textual practices. The paper concludes by identifying implications of this work for research and practice.

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Oliver, M. (2016). Students’ day-to-day engagements with technologies: rethinking digital literacies. Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.22554/ijtel.v1i1.8
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