Digital literacy and mobile leaning
The incorporation of technology into school-wide teaching pedagogy as outlined
above means that students will also develop digital literacy skills at the same time
as acquiring a second language. It can be argued that because ‘the ever expanding
connectivity of digital technology is recasting social arrangements and relations in
a more open, democratic and ultimately empowering manner’ (Selwyn, 2013: 2), so
‘teaching our students language in its traditional media is no longer enough’ and
‘increasingly, in everyday and professional life, people need the skills of electronic
literacy.’ (Healey et al., 2011: 9). Clearly, because ‘learning and literacy are changing
radically in the internet age’ (Richardson, 2012: 15), a place must be found for digital
literacy in education, but what does being digital literate entail?