Software Literacy: Education and Beyond

Khoo, Elaine; Hight, Craig; Torrens, Rob; Cowie, Bronwen

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-7059-4_6

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“…Digital literacy is the ability to access, organize, understand, evaluate information that include multimodal outlook through digital technologies [6][7][8], and engage in the rapid growth of the digital communication channel by interpreting, managing, sharing and creating meaning [9][10][11][12]. The skills included in digital literacy encompass the competence to analyze information critically so called information literacy [13,14], interprete visual media known as visual literacy [15,16], operate digital contents or software literacy [17], and utilize computers and technologies [18][19][20][21][22]. English teachers in the IR 4.0 era are expected to have high digital literacy scale and readiness toward the application of digital technologies as an effort to fulfill the necessities of millenial or digital native generation in the classroom.…”

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Digital literacy scale of English pre-service teachers and their perceived readiness toward the application of digital technologies

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Andriyanti

2020

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High digital literacy is significantly needed by English teachers in the trend of industrial revolution 4.0 to promote a better quality of English teaching and learning. However, a significant number of English teachers, as well as pre-service teachers, still had low digital literacy scale and they were not ready to implement digital technologies into English teaching and learning process. This study was aimed to describe the digital literacy scale of graduate school students of English Education Department in a state university in Yogyakarta as pre-service teachers and their readiness toward the application of digital technologies in teaching and learning contexts. The research used mix-methods to collect both quantitative and qualitative data through Likert-scale questionnaires and interviews. The study revealed that the research participants had high digital literacy scales and readiness toward the application of digital technologies. Thus, those graduate school students as pre-service teachers could fulfill the requirements of professional English teachers in terms of digital literacy and improve the quality of English teaching and learning output by integrating digital technologies.

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Digital literacy scale of English pre-service teachers and their perceived readiness toward the application of digital technologies

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2020

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“…Yazılım Okuryazarlığı: Belirli yazılımları anlama, uygulama, problem çözme ve eleştirme uzmanlığıdır (Khoo, Hight, Torrens & Cowie, 2017). Mali okuryazarlık…”

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Okuryazarlık Kavramı ve Türkiye deki Okuryazarlık Araştırmaları Üzerine Bir İnceleme

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2022

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Okuryazarlık 21. yüzyılda bireylerin kendini gerçekleştirebilmeleri, toplumların diğer toplumlarla rekabet edebilmeleri için sahip olmaları gereken becerilerin başında gelmektedir. Okunan bir metni anlama, değerlendirme ve dikte edileni doğru bir şekilde yazabilme becerisi olarak açıklanan okuryazarlık bilgi çağında; birtakım görev, beceri ve işlemlerin yerine getirilmesini kapsayacak şekilde genişlemiştir. Bu durum da bir dizi okuryazarlık türünün ortaya çıkmasını sağlamıştır. Araştırmanın temel amacı, kullanılan okuryazarlık türlerini tespit etmek olarak belirlenmiştir. Araştırmada nitel araştırma yöntemi, verilerin analiz edilmesinde betimsel analiz yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonunda da 98 okuryazarlık türü bulunduğu; sosyal, eğitim, coğrafya, psikoloji, tarih, sosyoloji, din, ekonomi, siyaset, etnoloji, hukuk, sanat, fen ve matematik, teknoloji, sağlık ve sporla ilgili olduğu; Türkiye’de en fazla sağlık okuryazarlığı, ekonomi/finans okuryazarlığı, medya okuryazarlığı, matematik okuryazarlığı, bilgi okuryazarlığı, dijital okuryazarlık, çevre/ekoloji okuryazarlığı, görsel okuryazarlık, fen okuryazarlığı, en az İklim değişikliği okuryazarlığı, iş yeri okuryazarlığı, jeokültürel bilimsel okuryazarlık, kırsal okuryazarlık, müze okuryazarlığı, nicel okuryazarlık, öğrenci geri bildirim okuryazarlığı, öğretmen geri bildirim okuryazarlığı, ölüm okuryazarlığı, peyzaj okuryazarlığı, tartışma okuryazarlığı, veri okuryazarlığı, yazılım okuryazarlığı üzerine araştırma yapılmıştır.

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“…Many practices within contemporary life, including those aggregated under the umbrella of digital, media and information practices, are now 'coded' in the sense that they only exist and are constituted through programming code (Kitchin & Dodge, 2011). We propose the term 'software literacy' defined as the expertise in understanding, applying, problem solving and critiquing software in pursuit of particular learning goals and professional contexts (Khoo, Hight, Torrens, & Cowie, 2017). We use the term 'literacy' to direct attention to how individuals make use of software and for what purposes, in what contexts and with what anticipated and unexpected outcomes.…”

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“…In relation to student learning about professional software in a tertiary setting (phase 2), the three tiers provided a useful framework for understanding the development of their software skills (Khoo, Hight, Torrens, & Cowie, 2017). However, student progress between the levels was fluid and flexible, dependent on student familiarity with a particular software and the context of use.…”

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“…They embody social and cultural assumptions about their use and all have particular values embedded in their interfaces and affordances. This paper draws from a funded research project investigating the notion of software literacy (Khoo, Hight, Torrens, & Cowie, 2017). In the project software literacy is defined as the expertise involved in understanding, applying, problem solving and critiquing software when it is used to achieve particular goals.…”

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Software literacy in shaping what we know in a software-saturated society

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Today’s modern societies are increasingly dependent on digital technologies and the software underpinning these technologies in almost every sphere of professional and personal life. These technologies and software are poorly understood as tools that shape our engagement with knowledge, culture and society in the 21st century. None of these tools are ‘neutral.’ They embody social and cultural assumptions about their use and all have particular values embedded in their interfaces and affordances. This paper draws from a funded research project investigating the notion of software literacy (Khoo, Hight, Torrens, & Cowie, 2017). In the project software literacy is defined as the expertise involved in understanding, applying, problem solving and critiquing software when it is used to achieve particular goals. The project team hypothesised there exists three progressive tiers of development towards software literacy in professional contexts. We conducted case studies of engineering and media studies students’ learning of an ubiquitous software such as PowerPoint as well as proprietary discipline-specific software to examine how software literacy is understood, developed and applied in a tertiary teaching-learning context. In this contribution we outline the project findings then use the notion of software literacy as the lens to unpack and illustrate through three everyday examples how software literacy would seem to be an essential part of learning and living in the 21st century.

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Software Literacy: Education and Beyond

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Digital literacy scale of English pre-service teachers and their perceived readiness toward the application of digital technologies

Digital literacy scale of English pre-service teachers and their perceived readiness toward the application of digital technologies

Okuryazarlık Kavramı ve Türkiye deki Okuryazarlık Araştırmaları Üzerine Bir İnceleme

Software literacy in shaping what we know in a software-saturated society

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