LaVonne Maupins's List: Digital Literacy

• What is 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 is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.
• A Digitally Literate Person:

• Possesses the variety of skills – technical and cognitive – required to find, understand, evaluate, create, and communicate digital information in a wide variety of formats;

   

   

• •Is able to use diverse technologies appropriately and effectively to retrieve information, interpret results, and judge the quality of that information;  

   

   

   

  •Understands the relationship between technology, life-long learning, personal privacy, and stewardship of information;

   

   

   

  •Uses these skills and the appropriate technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, colleagues, family, and on occasion, the general public; and

   

   

   

  •Uses these skills to actively participate in civic society and contribute to a vibrant, informed, and engaged community.

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