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Exploring Digital Literacy
Updated on Jul 13, 14
Created on Jul 09, 14
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Digital Literacy
The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information. 1
The ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers. 2
A person’s ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital environment… Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media, to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments. 3
Digital Literacy includes learning how to use technology’s tools. The list of digital tools is never ending. New releases make something that was new yesterday old today. Educators as well as students must thoughtfully determine which tools are essential to their digital literacy tool kit. Tool kit’s vary from one educator to another as they do from one student to another. Once you have mastered a particular tool, move on to another so you can increase your digital power.
Students are wired to learn digitally.They come to us with handhelds practically attached to their limbs. Our obligation is to teach them to become responsible digital citizens as well as discerning users of everything the internet has to offer in our globally collaborative world. Pamela Ann Kirst states in a November 2013 Zanesville Times Recorder article “Accessing information takes a nanosecond; the assimilation of that information, the interpretation and application of it, are the skills we need today. Anyone with Internet skills can find the data; it’s the finder who can tell us why it’s important that gets recognized.”
Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using inf
Digital Citizenship
Well, first citizenship, which is formally defined as “the quality of an individual’s response to membership in a community.” This makes citizenship far more complex than a simple legal matter, but rather one that consists of self-knowledge, interaction, and intimate knowledge of a place, its people, and its cultural history.
Digital Identity
Digital Identity: Is the concept of creating a form of existence in the cyber world using a collection of digital information. This can be applied to any entity whether it be a person or a thing (i.e. company, corporation, government, locations, etc.) It is used as a form of self expression and security.
Digital Security
Digital Security: Counter measures used to protect one's digital identity, confidential information, and personal information in cyberspace.
Critical Thinking
120 items | 26 visits
Exploring Digital Literacy
Updated on Jul 13, 14
Created on Jul 09, 14
Category: Schools & Education
URL: