Educators are for the most part largely underequipped, in my opinion, to provide proper and effective digital literacy competencies for students. The combination of varied personal skillsets, variety school resources and varied professional development are the primary impediments. Educators, no different than the students they engage, arrive each day to school with a range of skills – some of these skills are stronger in certain areas and some of these skills are weaker in certain areas. The result – a patchwork of educators striving to develop students digital literacy footprint.

Fair = No = Reality

What do Educators Need?

Resources, time, resources, time, professional development, time and funding — a lot of funding. This going to occur any day soon…………not likely. Internal supports (fellow educators sharing or taking on the role of digital literacy provider), professional learning communities and individual skill development are doing what it can on the margins. However, the funding supports required to address skillset deficiencies and varied/lack of school based digital resources is not just a one and one silver bullet. Sure, extra funding

funding + time = results = sort of/maybe

Sure, extra funding will have impacts that provide results, however, it will be a never ending road. Educators come and go and technology is advancing at such a rate that simply keeping abreast to be even ‘moderately’ digital literate can be viewed a winning. Treading water to say the least…

What is Digital Literacy?

There is certainly no lack of content out there explaining what digital literacy is and its importance/role it plays for educators and students today and into the future.

It just comes down to time and once again…..funding.