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| 1. Digital technologies, as any human production, are inherently social, cultural and political. The uses people make of digital technologies are intertwined with different interests, values and agendas. |
1a. How are digital technologies represented (as neutral, pragmatic or political tools)? |
| 1b. Is digital technology represented in a deterministic way? |
| 1c. Are digital technologies represented as imbued with action capacities? |
| 2. Digital tools relate both to global and local perspectives. They are plural, mobile and assume different values in different sociocultural situations. |
2a. What digital tools are featured in the material? |
| 2b. Are there digital tools that afford different types of engagement? |
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Meaning-making Practices
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| 3. Digital literacies are situated meaning-practices mediated by digital technologies and enmeshed with values and interests of particular groups. |
3a. What are the digital literacy practices and events focused on in the material? |
| 3b. Are the semiotic resources from different modes explored? |
| 3c. Are the semiotic resources analysed in terms of the partiality and value-laden nature of meaning-practices? |
| 4. Digital literacy practices usually produce and represent knowledge through the assemblage of different modes. |
4a. How are different modes explored? |
| 4b. Is there a balanced exploration of different modes? |
| 4c. Are there opportunities for learners to understand and question how different modes are combined to produce preferred meanings? |
| 5. Digital literacy practices usually encourage individuals to collaborate and participate in knowledge production. |
5a. Are there opportunities for learners to collaborate with each other and people from other locations? |
| 5b. What types of participation do the activities encourage learners to engage in? |
| 6. Digital literacy creates dispositions towards imagining alternative worlds. |
6a. Are the worldviews presented open to challenges? |
| 6b. Do the activities encourage envisioning of alternative practices? |
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Identities
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| 7. Learners are active meaning-makers that engage in digital literacy practices. |
7a. Do the activities encourage learners to express and share their own understandings of texts? |
| 7b. Are the learners required to engage in language practices involving digital literacy? |
| 8. Learners understand that digital literacy practices are inherently social and political as with any meaning-making practice. |
8a. Do learners have opportunities to reflexively analyse their own linguistic choices? |
| 8b. Are learners guided to understand their semiotic choices represent a certain perspective? |
| 8c. How do the activities foster critical engagement with ideas, positions and the values underlying them? |
| 9. Learners are open to analyse their epistemic views. |
9a. Are learners encouraged to question their own assumptions? |
| 9b. Do the activities allow questioning of taken-for-granted assumptions? |
| 10. Learners are co-producers of the digital literacy curriculum. |
10a. Are learners given the responsibility to choose what digital media texts they want to produce? |
| 10b. Can learners choose the topic they wish to address in their digital media texts? |
