The ability to communicate in a variety means of digital communication and to interact effectively, crossing interpersonal and collective, private and public borders and frameworks, synchronous and asynchronous, fitting the discourse to the characteristics of the means of communication. The ability to share information and messages by collaborative digital tools for personal and social purposes and to participate in communities and online networks through ethical awareness and global citizenship.
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Digital Competence: A Net of Literacies
Edith Avni (Toward Digital Ethics Initiative, Israel) and Abraham Rotem (Toward Digital Ethics Initiative, Israel)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 29
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9441-5.ch002
Abstract
This chapter presents a proposal for a conceptual framework of digital competence, which is a civil right and need and is vital for appropriate, intelligent study and functioning in the real world, through means that technology and the internet offer the citizen. Digital competence in the 2010s is a multifaceted complex of a net of literacies that have been updated, reformulated and transformed under the influence of technology. The framework of the digital competency includes eight fields of digital literacies. At the top of the net is digital ethics literacy, outlines the moral core for proper use of technology; at the base are technological literacy and digital reading and writing literacy, comprising the foundation and interface for all the digital literacies, and in between are the digital literacies in these fields: information literacy, digital visual literacy, new media literacy, communication and collaboration literacy and social media literacy. These interconnected literacies compose a synergetic complex of the digital competence framework.