digital skills – Mark Carrigan

Is digital upskilling the next generation our ‘pipeline to prosperity’?

My notes on Davies, H. C., & Eynon, R. (2018). Is digital upskilling the next generation our ‘pipeline to prosperity’?. New Media & Society, 20(11), 3961-3979. It’s so rare for a paper to have such a wonderfully informative title. Huw Davies and Rebecca Eynon interrogate this assumption that “teaching young people […]

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes

Socialising children into digital agency: why it’s not the same as reading, writing and arithmetic

I found this comparison by Robin Wilton extremely thought-provoking. It’s correct as a statement about why we should treat these skills as fundamental to education. However it glosses over a number of differences and we should be cautious about the comparison: While there are corporate interests involved in reading, writing and arithmetic […]

Estimated reading time: 1 minute