3. SOME PEDAGOGICAL NOTIONS FOR LEARNING WEB LITERACY

3.2 LEARNING WEB LITERACY AS AUTONOMY DEVELOPMENT

Our focus in this study, that is web literacy, is needed in all the spheres of life from studies, and working life to the more private spheres of life. In other words, managing this new medium can be seen as a transferable skill, a supporting skill that helps us to be active members of the communities we live in.

Similarly to the understanding of all literacies through the socio-constructive paradigm (see ch 2.2), we have adopted a socio-constructive approach to learning according to which meaning making and learning are social in nature and cannot be separated from the social, cultural or historic context (eg. Tynjälä 1999:44). Nevertheless, in this chapter we will present learning as autonomy development and introduce the sets of cognitive processes through which learners can develop towards web literacy. Our focus is first on individuals and on intrapersonal side of learning before moving on to elaborate the social nature of all learning.