MIL as a Tool for Teachers to Prevent Risk and Transmit Digital Culture
Julie Pascau · 2021
Parents and teachers are aware of the digital risks, but they do not master the mechanics of these often-solitary uses: access to pornography and violent images, child pornography networks, cyber harassment, health risks and so on. Both a poison and a remedy, digital technology worries and excites in equal measure. Schools are firmly turning a digital corner by introducing programs that link digital skills and information culture to basic learning. The confusion between media and information literacy (MIL) and digital literacy raises questions because MIL has a much broader purpose than just the use of digital tools in the classroom. When asked to clarify what they mean by MIL and digital literacy, the teachers' answers as a whole provide a fairly complete picture of what MIL is and go far beyond risk prevention alone, even though in professional practice it is not implemented.