"How is digital literacy like boot camp?" IU's Margaret Lion on digital literacy as basic training for student success in higher education

In this conversation with Margaret Lion, Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health at Indiana University Bloomington, we get down to the nitty gritty of the basic digital literacy skills students need to succeed in higher education today. In our headlong rush into the "postdigital" era, we sometimes forget that many students across the university lack what some might consider "baseline" skills of digital literacy: for example, file saving and sharing, version control, file naming, and the like. Margaret talks about a digital skills course she has been teaching at IUB since 2009, K200 Microcomputer Applications in Kinesiology, and discusses how this course prepares students for success in their college careers. Paul and Adam also talk with Margaret about the history of digital literacy, and the fact that Adam still boots Windows from DOS. Good times are had by all.

Read "File Not Found," the Verge article discussed in the podcast.

Thank you for listening to Digital Gardening. We'll be back soon with some deep-dive episodes, including one on the subtle and oftentimes confusing distinctions between digital literacy and media literacy.

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