HA Webinar: What is digital literacy — and why history sits at the centre of it

Description

Historical Association webinar series: Historical thinking in a digital world: how history builds digital and media literacy

Presenters: Ben Walsh

This opening session establishes a shared, research-informed definition of digital literacy and distinguishes related terms (media literacy, information literacy, critical digital literacy, data literacy), examining what digital literacy means beyond basic technical skills.

The session then argues that historical thinking offers a uniquely powerful toolkit for digital literacy: provenance, contextualisation, corroboration, claims-evidence reasoning, and epistemic vigilance. We explore how these disciplinary practices map directly onto the competencies needed to navigate online information environments, making history a ‘home subject’ for digital literacy education.

Participants will leave with a simple ‘history-to-digital’ mapping framework they can apply to enquiries, homework, and departmental policy, as well as an introduction to the Digital Literacy Mapping Tool for curriculum audit.

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