Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

Jayne C. Lammers

Much has been written about the youth experience of literacy learning when they create and share fanfiction online. Previous features on Reading Today Online have outlined what learning looks like for adolescent participants in Hunger Games fan spaces and have shed light on the particular writing practices recruited by sites like Fanfiction.net. However, less is known about the nature of teaching in these online, fan-based, informal learning environments. How do online spaces teach fans the expectations of digital literacy practices such as writing fanfiction?

Many presentations from the European Conference on Information Literacy (held in October 2013) have been put online. Although they are not all there, this is a great resource, as there were a huge number of presentations, on all sorts of aspects of information literacy. There are presentations from people in many different countries, with both research-focused and practice-focused presentations. The links are on the programme page at http://ecil2013.ilconf.org/program/
Photo by Sheila Webber: Christmas ornament, 2013