Course Introduction

Digital literacy is a ‘life skill’ in which individuals develop skills and abilities, using digital tools appropriately to locate, evaluate, analyze, synthesize and construct new knowledge, communicate and interact with others in a creative and transformative way.

According to the bibliography, DL is a multidimensional literacy that involves a technical/ operational dimension which refers to mechanical and practical skills; a cognitive dimension related to Information literacy skills and content creation skills; and a social-emotional dimension which focuses on an individual’s development to communicate with others and enable social action. 

Framework for digital skills (Ng, 2012)

Reference

Ng, W. (2012). Can we teach digital natives digital literacy? Computers and Education, 59(3), 1065-1078. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2012.04.016

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