EDST 1130U – Writing and Digital Literacy

This course is designed to develop students’ research, writing skills and digital literacy practices to support student success within the Educational Studies program. Students will enhance their inquiry skills and use digital technologies including academic and public resources to critically assess the sources and utility of information. Assignments in this course include formal, academic writing and the mediation and creation of digital artifacts through processes that include revision, peer and self editing.

Digital literacy is an international umbrella term under which multiple competences are found, including ability to use, understand and create accessible digital media. It includes the essential skills to access and employ digital tools to seek and to provide information, to analyze and synthesize the information, and to use digital literacy to collaborate, to co-create and to propose problem solutions. Students in this course work toward understanding digital media within multiple contexts, identifying its role in shaping beliefs, and determining self-direction and responsibility in a digital society. Digital privacy competencies such as the appreciation of vulnerability online and knowledge of privacy rights are important digital literacy skills in this course that lead students toward safe, informed and responsible use of the internet.
Credit hours: 3.0
Lecture hours: 2
Tutorial hours: 1
Experiential learning: Yes