Why focus on promoting literacy in the digital era?
Examples of innovative uses of technology during literacy instruction include student-produced products, such as digital story expressions. Learn more about Literacy in the digital age.
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Taking learners’ contexts into account to leave no one behind.
Digital transformation must leave no one behind. Innovative and effective literacy practices in a digitalera require relevance and recognition of diversity across literacy-related systems , policies, programmes, and teaching and learning practices. Digital technologies help promote impactful literacy initiatives when they are used with caution , are locally grounded and context-specific, foster participatory approaches, embrace learners’ voices and agency, consider learners’ profiles, needs, aspirations, cultures, and knowledge systems, and cocreate new knowledge and solutions. Digital technologies , for instance, have facilitated the use of local languages , helped develop content relevant to learners’ knowledge, cultures and contexts, and contributed to making learning more personalized.