FOCUS - For a functional, digital, and critical literacy

Abstract

[EN] This article describes the development of a new educational application, FOCUS, for women who are learning to read and write for the first time in their lives. Their driving force is often to manage their current everyday life better but also to change their future living conditions. Initially the Dispurse Literacy Program and the applications´s prerequisites and previous development are described. Examples of how the content and design has been changed with respect to both technical and pedagogical requirements are also given. The theoretical framework, the Resource Model, is then presented followed by a section where four pedagogical questions guiding the development of the app are examined. Finally, a short section follows where challenges and future possibilities for digitally based literacy education are highlighted.