Discussion 2 – Digital Literacy

Working towards my Master’s, I have taken several courses that require the same activity: an annotated bibliography. The basics of the assignment are all the same, to find a resource on the subject and explain why I have chosen it. However, one of the courses required slightly different resources, which greatly impacted my digital literacy.
For this assignment, I needed to find both academic and non-academic references. This included an online journal, a book, a video or podcast, a blog, and news articles. While I am comfortable looking up academic references, I struggled to find videos, podcasts and blogs. I do not listen to podcasts or read blogs on my own, let alone one on particular subjects. Where could I find reputable sources?  When I used Google, using my subject and video or blog as the search parameters, I found many resources, but which ones were reputable? Which ones would I want to use on an academic assignment? I had to narrow it down. As I continued to work on the assignment, I realized the value of it. The assignment helped increase the students’ digital literacy. It had the students research the resources they were using to understand the value and if they were appropriate to use. In hindsight, I realized… What a clever assignment.