Our Class Blog
Come along as we explore ways to navigate digital spaces while protecting our privacy and exerting agency over our identities and our data. New posts arrive each week from September through December, 2023.
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Careful, Make Sure To Read The Fine Print
The use of online contracts and the way the internet is able to use and sell personal consumer information for their own purposes.
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Digital Literacy : Advancement, Adjustments, and Placements
Discussion on the ways they digital literacy is discussed and the importance its stance is within society. These conversations spark new ideas within digital expansion and evoke human perception.
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Exploring Literacy in the Digital Age: From Pencils to Pixels and Digital Literacies
A discussion on how the everlasting change from pencils to the digital world. A in-depth look of how the fast change has impacted the world.
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Do You Read the Fine Print? Me Neither.
A discussion on fine print, privacy policies, and why no one actually reads them…and what can be done about it, based on 2014 research.
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Ever-Evolving Digital Literacies + Tech
What “digital communication technologies” are, how they’ve evolved, and why being digitally literate is so important today.
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Are we digitally literate by default?
Digital literacy is used for social and cultural benefit. But some opportunities to succeed academically are taken away due to accessibility.
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Does Anyone Read Fine Print?
Studies have hypothesized many consumers avoid reading the fine print because of company statures or simply the length of the contract.
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The Power of Literacy
Why does literacy hold so much power in our society? How can attending to the social aspects of digital literacies can help improve education?