EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN LITERARY AND DIGITAL LITERACY IN SCHOOL

Two related questions are explored in this paper: What is the motivation for a literary blog activity in a “book-flooding” program? Under what conditions can such a blog activity be successfully implemented in the classroom? In order to answer these questions, we address the relation between literary and digital literacy. We see literary and digital literacy as parts of the overall literacy of the students. These parts of literacy are important in themselves, but we present research to show that they also can interact with each other and with other aspects of literacy in ways that have an accelerating effect on the students‟ literacy as a whole. The research reported from serves as motivation for our own blog activity, which we present here in detail to demonstrate how such a digital literacy can be implemented. The presentation is accompanied by a discussion of some important conditions that are important for using digital tools as part of a potentially literacy enhancing “book-flooding” program in class.