What's digital literacy?

1. What’s Digital
Literacy?

3. What’s digital literacy?
▧ You are using digital literacy when you use
digital technology, communication tools or
networks to locate, evaluate, use and create
information.
▧ 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.

4. Why is it important to the society?
▧ People can engage in the digital world such
as accessing public services, online
shopping and using digital communications.
▧ As a learner you can validate your digital
literacy skills to enhance your employment
options and to enable you to actively
engage in the digital world
▧ To access government and public services
you increasingly require digital access and
digital literacy skills

5. Digital Literacies and Education
▧ to use technology with other people for
communication, for working, for playing
etc., teachers have to be aware of new ways
in which an individual can use technologies
in his/her daily life
▧ UNESCO (2010) has a project about ICT
Competency Standards for Teachers. The
competencies consist of four components:
Policy and vision, Technology literacy,
Knowledge deepening, and Knowledge
creation, and each of them, several topics

6. Digital Literacies and Education
▧ International Society for Technology in
Education has defined the educational
technology standards for students (ISTE,
2007). The main competencies are
creativity and innovation; communication
and collaboration; research and information
fluency; critical thinking, problem solving,
and decision making; digital citizenship, and
technology operations and concepts

7. Digital Literacies and Education
▧ The Assessment and Teaching of 21st
Century Skills project (ATC21, 2009) was
created by Cisco, Intel and Microsoft and
launched 2009 (the project is still going on
and the paper referred is a draft). In this
project, the focus was in the new ways and
methods for assessment and teaching. The
skills in the paper (referred as 21st century
skills) were grouped to four main categories
listed in Table 1.

9. References:
▧ http://www.library.illinois.edu/diglit/definiti
on.html
▧ http://linked.eun.org/c/document_library/g
et_file?p_l_id=16319&folderId=22089&na
me=DLFE-711.pdf