Toward the era of digital physical literacy education. A literature review

Purpose: To review the literature regarding the development of the digitalization of education in the post-humanism era. Methods: a literature review was conducted on Google Scholar, Web Of Science and Pubmed databases using the keywords digital literacy, education, posthumanism. Results: Digital literacy (DL) encompasses the competencies and skills required for navigating a fragmented and complex information ecosystem. DL development led to the era of the posthumanism, the movement in which humans are not intended anymore as an individual, but as as entity connected to the society and the environment. From a phenomenological perspective, the body has been identified as a point of contact between individuals and the society, representing a unicuum embedding many characteristic traits, reflecting its interactions with the society, personal experiences, etc. Nevertheless, a reflection should be made concerning how the use of the body has changed in the posthumanism. For instance, in the immersive virtual reality the virtual body can be different from the real body, affecting their perception, attitudes, and behavior. With this experience of embodiment, an individual might live the world from a different point of view characterized by interactivity, virtuality, information processability, presence and body ownership. In this perspective physical education (PE) teachers should identify the emerging needs of new generations and readapt their educational approaches toward a new culture of the physical literacy (PL). PL is widely described as ‘the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding to value and take responsibility for engagement in physical activities for life’. Conclusions: Digital technologies are continuously developing and evolving leading to the advent of new real and virtual worlds increasingly interconnected. Therefore, PE teachers should understand how these new realities are influencing the growing processes of new generations and how to adopt those new technologies for developing new strategies to live within the body and the society. It is maybe time to thinking about a digital physical literacy? References: Bayne S. (2018). Posthumanism: a navigation aid for educators.. Digennaro S. (2021). Non sanno neanche fare la capovolta. Il corpo dei giovani ei loro disagi. Howard SK & Mozejko A. (2015). Considering the history of digital technologies in education. International Physical Literacy Association. (2017). Jung HK & Kim HK. (2020). Expansion of immersive experience in society. Slater M & Sanchez-Vives MV. (2014). Transcending the self in immersive virtual reality. Snaza N. et al. (2014). ‘‘Toward a posthuman education.’’