Teachers have started (or been forced) to use the digital tools in their teaching toolbox. But, a lot of practice is ad-hoc with teachers and young folk solving problems on the fly. Sometimes things go wrong; it's the internet after all. The thing is you have to know when it's worth persisting because the long-term gains are worth a couple of short term disasters.

This prompted me to think about the elements of digital literacy. If we can come up with an intuitive framework for digital literacy, K-12 teachers can use it to decide what's integral to developing digital literacy and which conflagrations to walk away from (in slow motion with a cool soundtrack, of course).

In future blog posts, I'm going to make some proposals for components of a digital literacy framework. My yard stick is whether they are intuitive and help teachers incorporate digital knowledge and skills into the rest of the curriculum.