Events

Equity in Digital Literacies: Access, Ethics and Engagement

Equity in Digital Literacies: Access, Ethics and Engagement

These keynotes are part of a two-day closed conference. Funded by SSHRC, UBC SPARC, the Department of Language and Literacy Education, and LLED’s Digital Literacy Centre. Organized by Theresa Rogers, Jim Anderson, Ron Darvin (UBC) and Suzanne Smythe (SFU).

DLC Series: Beyond the Northwest Tree Octopus: Multimodal Visual analysis as key to critical digital literacy

DLC Series: Beyond the Northwest Tree Octopus: Multimodal Visual analysis as key to critical digital literacy

Developing young people’s critical web literacy is of utmost significance, especially at a time when there is such ease of accessibility to the Internet. Because of this, some scholars and most curricular documents urge educators to teach young people to be critical navigators and consumers of the web.

DLC Series: Language and Literacy on the Frontiers of Digital Poetry

DLC Series: Language and Literacy on the Frontiers of Digital Poetry

How is digital media transforming language? The poet-programmer Jim Andrews has been navigating the frontiers of digital literacy since 1996. His site vispo.com is well-known in the international circles of electronic literature as an innovative centre of interactive, multimedia poetry, essays on language and technology, and generative art.