What is Digital Literacy

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Literacy in digital media, development of use capacity, understanding and creation of digital media that provide a critical analysis of digital content and products. Learn more in: Digital Game Design Tutorial for Use in the Basic School: A Pedagogical Proposal

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The ability to master the use of technologies for successful in-class and distance learning and teaching while communicating with students inside and outside the classroom. Learn more in: Multilingual Writing in Digital World: The Necessity for Reshaping Teaching

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Being able to use digital technologies. Learn more in: Writing in the Digital Age: Teaching Writing to Digital Natives

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Being able to explain what is meant by symbols and to understand correctly what is explained through symbols. Learn more in: The Importance of Digital Fluency in Terms of Disruptive and Emerging Technologies

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The set of skills, knowledge and attitudes required to access, create, use, and evaluate digital information effectively, efficiently, and ethically. Learn more in: Digital Literacy

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The process of reading and interacting with digital text and other digital materials and creating using digital tools, including writing, creating images, curating content, making videos, etc. Learn more in: Engaging Teachers in a Digital Learner-Centered Approach to Support Understanding Foundational Literacy

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The cognitive and social phenomenon that represents the new abilities related to appropriation of ICTs in the contemporary society. Learn more in: From Information Society to Community Service: The Birth of E-Citizenship

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The interpretive understanding of technological social networks that create communication and the uses and applications of social media. Learn more in: Liberating Educational Technology Through the Socratic Method

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While definitions of digital literacy vary according to the technical context, the basic definition includes the ability of the end-user to create and manipulate content and interact across different digital media. Learn more in: Transforming Preservice Teacher TPACK by Transforming Faculty Digital Agency: Case Studies From the Provost's Inaugural Digital Learning Initiative Fellows

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The capability to understand and to use technologies to communicate, to create, to interact and to evaluate information and actions. Learn more in: The Contribution of Technologies to Promote Healthy Aging and Prevent Frailty in Elderly People

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An individual’s ability to find, evaluate, and compose clear information using technology. Learn more in: Teacherpreneurs as Agents of Reform

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Digital literacy is the knowledge, skills, and behaviors used in a broad range of digital devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop PCs, all of which are seen as a network rather than computing devices. Learn more in: Technology-Infused Balanced Literacy for Enhancing the Reading Skills of Early Grade Children

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The ability to find, evaluate, and use digital content in meaningful and responsible ways. Learn more in: Preservice Teachers' Development and Application of Critical Thinking Skills in a Social Studies Methods Course

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Using and understanding many forms and vehicles of literacy, specifically those used in online and electronic communication. Learn more in: Showing a Human and Professional Face to the World: An ePortfolio Design Strategy for a Sense of Self

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The ability to successfully utilize a computer and navigate the internet. Learn more in: Effects of Learning Traits and Information Display on Incidental Learning in 3D Virtual Environments

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Is a student’s/employee’s ability to find, analyze, and present clear and concise information, either through writing or the use of technology tools. Learn more in: Future of Education in Industry 4.0: Educational Digitization – A Canadian Case Study

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Refers to an individual's ability to find, evaluate, and compose clear information through writing and other mediums on various digital platforms. Learn more in: Conclusion: Creating Better Teaching and Learning Environments by Focusing on Teaching and Learning

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The advocacy and application of information communication technologies in online settings. Learn more in: Integrating Digital Literacy in Competency-Based Curriculum

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Refers to the skills and literacies needed for the average person to be able to learn and navigate in contemporary society. Learn more in: Pre-Service Teachers' Digital Competencies to Support School Students' Digital Literacies

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The ability to use information and communication technologies to find, create, and communicate information that requires both cognitive and technological skills. Learn more in: An Overview of Multilingual Learners' Literacy Needs for the 21st Century

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Individual's ability to find, evaluate, and compose clear information through writing and other media on various digital platforms. Learn more in: How Does the Digital Transformation Affect the Job of University Teachers?: Summary of the Required Skills of University Teachers

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The ability to access, analyze, evaluate and produce messages and information across a range of digital information and communication technologies in a variety of social settings. Learn more in: The Geography of Digital Literacy: Mapping Communications Technology Training Programs in Austin, Texas

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The ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills. Learn more in: Mobile Technology Integration and Student Learning Outcomes

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Individual's ability to find, evaluate, and compose clear information through digital materials, processing diverse data sources and understanding macro relevance and micro application of seemingly disparate ideas. Learn more in: CLIL Approach and Educational Technologies: ClassLabs, Teachers' Digital Literacy, and High School Students' Opportunities

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Digital literacy refers to the ability to use digital and communication technology to locate, evaluate, use and create information. Learn more in: Media Literacy in the Digital Age: Literacy Projects and Organizations

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The capability to use digital technologies to read, write, interpret, and apply knowledge. Learn more in: New Visual Literacies and Competencies for Education and the Workplace

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Ability to use the tools of the digital age in order to communicate and problem solve effectively. Learn more in: Concept Mapping as a Mediator of Constructivist Learning

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The ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of information technology to locate, evaluate, use, and create pertinent information. Learn more in: Towards a Multi-Dimensional Model of Digital Competence in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

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A combination of digital competence (skills, concepts, approaches, attitudes), digital usage (professional/discipline application) and digital transformation (innovation/creativity). Learn more in: Addressing Digital Competencies, Curriculum Development, and Instructional Design in Science Teacher Education

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The ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills. Learn more in: Social Media and Children

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The ability to locate, create, and communicate digital content. Learn more in: Digital Literacy for the 21st Century

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The ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and analyze information using digital technology. Learn more in: Fiscal Policy and Social Optimization for Developing Nations: Some Thoughts in the Digital Era

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The skills of information location and application including understanding how to use available evidence to assist in problem solving and decision making. Learn more in: Developing Digital Literacy Skills with WebQuests and Web Inquiry Projects

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A group of competences that allows an individual to acquire knowledge through digital processes. Learn more in: Competences and Learning Profiles of Digital Age's Students

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The skill to perform tasks effectively in a digital environment. Learn more in: Don’t Trash Your Spam!: Reasoning on Spam as a Way to Train Critical Thinking

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The use of information and telecommunication technologies in learning, particularly in reading and writing. Learn more in: Wireless Technologies and Multimedia Literacies

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Socially situated practices supported by strategies, skills, and dispositions that enable the understanding and representation of ideas using multimodalities enabled by digital tools. Learn more in: Lessons Learned: Teaching Latinx Teacher Candidates Through Digital Literacy and Community Service Learning

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The ability to use technological devices, platforms or information in an attempt to communicate, inform, create or evaluate through the combined requirement of technical and cognitive skills. Learn more in: Google Docs Motivates Creative Inspiration and Constructive Interaction

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The ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills. Learn more in: Re-Shaping Physical and Digital Consumer and Participative Co-Production Processes: The Impact of Social Distancing During COVID-19

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Digital literacy is the ability to use, create and read information using technology. Learn more in: Digital Storytelling With English Language Learning Families

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Digital literacy exemplifies competency in learning that occur through online, electronic sources. Learn more in: The Role of Technology in the Transformation of Twenty-First Century Literacy Skills

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The set of skills, knowledge and attitudes required to access, create, use, and evaluate digital information effectively, efficiently, and ethically. Learn more in: Digital Literacy in Theory and Practice

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The ability to use ITC to find, evaluate, create and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills. Learn more in: Why the Latin American Footwear Industry Still Lags Behind in E-Commerce Adoption: The Case of Ecuador

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A survival skill in the digital era. It constitutes a system of skills and strategies used by learners and users in digital environments. By employing different types of digital literacy, users improve their performance and “survive” a variety of obstacles and stumbling blocks that lie in the way within this special medium. ( Eshet 2012 ). Learn more in: Cross-Border Collaborative Learning in the Professional Development of Teachers: Case Study – Online Course for the Professional Development of Teachers in a Digital Age

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Refers to the ability to understand and process information in digital formats. Learn more in: From Linguistic Determinism to Technological Determinism

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The capacity to make effective use of information and communication technologies. Learn more in: The E-Planning Paradigm – Theory, Methods and Tools: An Overview

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Digital literacy consists of competence in the basic skills to utilize digital technologies, an understanding of how these competences may be utilised to create context to practices and subsequently to participate socially, culturally and economically, and it allows for the intellectual empowerment of individuals to transform society. Learn more in: A Maturity Model for Digital Literacies and Sustainable Development

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The ability to use technologies such as course management software, lab equipment, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, internet, e-mail, electronic dictionary/translator, field-specific calculators, film, and sitcoms used for academic literacy purposes. Learn more in: Understanding Online Learners' Media Literacy for Effective Training of Online Instructors

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The ability to use multiple pieces of technology effectively for specific tasks. Learn more in: Using Web 2.0 Tools to Start a WebQuest Renaissance

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Digital literacy is an ability to use digital technology such as smartphones, tablets and laptops. Learn more in: E-Commerce Opportunities and Challenges in Turkey

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A set of competencies that allow people to function and participate fully in a digital environment. Learn more in: Combating Fake News Online: Turkish Fact-Checking Services

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The ability to assess, use, manage, share, and generate information effectively and purposefully using digital technology. Learn more in: Beyond Textbooks: Sources of Good Virtual Training

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Literacy that uses digital technologies to amplify existing literacy skills. Digital literacy deals with a wide variety of digital texts, is Internet-based, multidimensional, and participatory. Learn more in: Tapping into Digital Literacy with Mobile Devices

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The ability to access, analyze, understand, and participate using the digital devices such as computer and the internet in a free and democratic manner. Learn more in: Bridging the Gap With QR Codes: QR Codes for Enhancing Cyberculture in Istanbul

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The ability to learn and use digital communication technologies easily and consciously. Learn more in: Digital Literacy in the World of Digital Natives

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The skills and competences of people in using technological platforms to produce and evaluate information through electronic means. Learn more in: Importance of Digital Literacy and Hindrance Brought About by Digital Divide

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The awareness of recent technological developments, or existing technologies, and how they can be applied in everyday life, study or industry/business. Learn more in: Assessment ‘for' Learning: Embedding Digital Literacy and Peer-Support of Learning into an Assessment

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Set of skills and abilities that enable people to have autonomy and critical thinking to use information and communication technologies. Learn more in: Digital Inclusion and Computational Thinking: New Challenges and Opportunities for Media Professionals

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The ability to assess, use, manage, share and generate information effectively and purposefully using digital technology. Learn more in: ICT Literacy Integration: Issues and Sample Efforts

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The knowledge, skills and behaviors that users have with computing and digital devices. Learn more in: Personal Learning Environments: Research Environments and Lifelong Informal Learning

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The knowledge, skills, and behaviours used in a broad range of digital devices such as smart phones, tablets, laptops and desktop PCs, all of which are seen as ‘network’ rather stand-alone. Computer literacy preceded digital literacy, and refers to knowledge and skills in using traditional computers (such as desktop PCs and laptops) with a focus on practical skills in using software application packages, whereas digital literacy is a more ‘contemporary’ term focused on one’s practical abilities in using digital devices. Learn more in: Native or Novice?: An Exploratory Study of the Access to and Use of Digital Technologies among Pathway Students

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The ability to finding and retrieving digital information and use it in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers. Involve evaluating, analyzing, aggregating, recombining, creating, and releasing knowledge online. Learn more in: Digital Access and Literacy: Familiarity With Digital Technologies in European Union Countries

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The ability to read, write and interact across digital social networks. Learn more in: Personal Knowledge Management Skills for Lifelong-Learners 2.0

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A skill that is necessary in the digital age in order to participate socially, culturally, and politically and make well-informed decisions in the digital world. In contrast to media literacy, this focus on participatory skills is said to enable active participation in digital media. It emphasizes the well-informed and able consumer/producer of media, who is able to access, use, understand, and create (new) media. Learn more in: Fostering (Digital) Media Literacy Skills and Global Citizenship in the EFL Classroom: Digital Stories of Undocumented Youth

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The ability to access, understand and manage all the information that digital media provide, but also the skills to use it ethically. Like the traditional idea of literacy, it includes critical reading but also writing. So, people should be able to become digital writers, in a sense they can use digital tools to express themselves and communicate with others. Learn more in: How to Use Parody and Humour to Teach Digital Literacy

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This term has been defined in different ways. I use it to describe written or symbolic representation that is mediated by new technology ( Merchant, 2007 ). Whilst recognizing that many online texts are multimodal, digital literacy places the focus on the semiotic of written communication. Learn more in: Learning for the Future: Emerging Technologies and Social Participation

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An umbrella term for a number of competencies, skills and understandings associated with digital infrastructural technologies (we argue software literacy falls within this same umbrella). Learn more in: Software Literacy as a Vital Digital Literacy in a Software-Saturated World

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Ability to use digital technology to locate, evaluate, use, and create information. Learn more in: Use of E-Collaboration Technologies Among Students of Management

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The ability to electronically navigate, produce, create, and share information. Learn more in: Examining the Benefits of Integrating Social Media into the Classroom

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A set of skills and abilities that enables someone to make use of literacies, when using digital tools to consume and to produce information. Learn more in: Borderline Fields of Information Architecture: Information Overload, the Literacies, and Personal Information Management

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Digital literacy is the ability to effectively, efficiently, and safely utilize technology and online resources in everyday life. Learn more in: Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom: A Qualitative Case Study Exploring the Learning and Success in a 3rd Grade LATIC Curriculum

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Refers to an individual's ability to find, evaluate, and compose clear information through writing and other mediums on various digital platforms. Learn more in: Introduction: Advancing Digital Equity Through Transformative Teaching and Learning

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Includes all digital skills that students and future workers need now and will later need in the digital age of the twenty-first century and beyond. Nowadays it is necessary for any action to be possessing knowledge in the field of ICT use, the teaching or labor market requires the ability to use, interpret, adapt, and create digital images in the most diverse formats, platforms, or devices. Learn more in: Using Online Programs to Centre Students in the Twenty-First Century

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Having the technical knowledge for producing content, as well as understanding the rhetorical conventions for effective communications, through a variety of digital applications. Learn more in: E-Portfolios: Deepening Student Engagement in Learning

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Ability of an individual to use digital devices at his/her disposal constructively and for the good benefit of the society. Learn more in: Social Media Integration in Educational Administration as Information and Smart Systems: Digital Literacy for Economic, Social, and Political Engagement in Namibia

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The ability to understand, process and create media content in a digital environment. Learn more in: Effectively Incorporating Blogs for the L2 Literacy Development of Teenage Language Learners

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The awareness of recent technological developments, or existing technologies, and how they can be applied in everyday life, study or industry/business. Learn more in: Social Space or Pedagogic Powerhouse: Do Digital Natives Appreciate the Potential of Web 2.0 Technologies for Learning?

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The ability to use electronic equipment to understand, filter, and validate material in various modalities in a strategical way to evaluate information, collaborate, produce, share content and/or achieve academic, professional, or personal goals. Learn more in: “Let Me Show You”: An Application of Digital Storytelling for Reflective Assessment in Study Abroad Programs

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Set of skills, knowledge and attitudes for acting in a digital environment, enabling individuals to benefit from digital media in all life aspects; sometimes referred as digital competence. Learn more in: Profiling Internet Use of Portuguese Higher Education Students

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These days, digital illiteracy is nearly as debilitating as traditional illiteracy. Digital devices like smartphones, tablets, and laptops have permeated every corner of our lives from work to school to personal relationships, and part of a well-rounded education includes being able to use these devices to achieve a variety of goals. Learn more in: Media Literacy Among College Students: A Study of Sivagangai District, India

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Covers the interpretation of all complex, mediated symbolic texts broadcast or published on electronic communication networks and foregrounds the technological, cultural, and historical specificity of particular media as used in particular time and places. Learn more in: Comparative Approaches of the IGI-Global Collection

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A term used to describe the ability of users to perform in digital environments. Learn more in: Real-Time Thinking in the Digital Era

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Digital literacy refers to the knowledge and capabilities of all care actors with a specific focus on patients to use digital tools, platforms and devices for self-managing their care path. Learn more in: Empowering Patients Through Digital Technologies: The Case of Mobile Health Applications

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The ability to use ICT to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills. Learn more in: The Impact of Mobile Learning via Touch-Screen Tablets in Emergent Literacy Development

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A complex pattern of competencies enabling interaction with digital environments covering the five dimensions of (1) photo-visual literacy; (2) reproduction literacy; (3) information literacy; (4) branching literacy; and (5) socio-emotional literacy. Learn more in: Crossing the Chasm: Hurdles to Acceptance and Success of Serious Games

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Ability to use digital technologies appropriately for learning, working, and functioning in a modern society. Learn more in: New Faces of Digital Divide and How to Bridge It

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The ability to use information and communication technologies to find, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills. The ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital environment. Learn more in: Examining Bilingual Teacher Candidates' Use of Digital Media

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Digital literacy involves the ability to find, interpret, comprehend, understand, evaluate, restructure, and repurpose the wide variety of media types that can be stored, downloaded, and/or manipulated using computer hardware and software. Learn more in: Digital Literacy Research

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The necessary digital skills and knowledge in use of ICTs. Learn more in: Digital Literacy Education for Digital Inclusion

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An umbrella term used to refer to the skills, practices, & dispositions necessary for full participation in contemporary society. Learn more in: Seeing Beyond the Screen: A Multidimensional Framework for Understanding Digital-Age Literacies

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Competence on the use of digital technology for searching, organizing, understanding and creating information with digital devices. Learn more in: E-Learning: Psycho-Pedagogical Utility, Usability and Accessibility Criteria from a Learner Centred Perspective

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A broad term that refers to the use of literacy skills – reading, writing, listening, to communicate and interact within digital environments and/or using devices and cyberspace to compose and comprehend thoughts. Learn more in: Toward a Working Definition of Digital Literacy

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A sub-set of digital citizenship skills that focus on following intellectual property laws, performing effective searches, and developing the ability to discern the validity of the source. Learn more in: Tech-Savvy Is the New Street Smart: Balancing Protection and Awareness

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The ability of learners to effectively access and use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills. Learn more in: Inverted Constructivism to Leverage Mobile-Technology-Based Active Learning

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Practices of communication that are used via digital platforms and the Internet. Learn more in: Transnational Immigrant Youth Literacies: A Selective Review of the Literature

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The ability to identify, access, evaluate, and use resources within electronic and/or digital environments. A digitally literate person is able to communicate effectively, and create new knowledge objects, using digital tools and resources. Learn more in: Using Digital Resources to Support STEM Education

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Digital literacy is a set of habits through which youngsters use information technologies for learning, work, and fun. Learn more in: Cyber Bullying and Violence Literacy in the Context of Digitalization

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The ability to access technology and use it effectively in meeting the needs and challenges of one’s day-to-day life. Learn more in: The Rural Learning Challenge: Meeting the Health Needs of Rural Residents through ICTs

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The ability to use information and communication technologies to locate, evaluate, create, and communicate information. Learn more in: Preparing Teachers to Integrate Digital Tools That Support Students' Online Research and Comprehension Skills

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The ability to assess, use, manage, share and generate information effectively and purposefully using digital technology. Learn more in: Optimizing OERs for Optimal ICT Literacy in Higher Education

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Literacy across computerized devices and technologies, as well as programs, software. The ability to effectively navigate and communicate over the internet through various digital modalities. Learn more in: Developing Instructional Leadership and Communication Skills through Online Professional Development: Focusing on Rural and Urban Principals

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Ability, knowledge and use of computers and technology in communication and composition. Learn more in: The Evolution of Online Composition Pedagogy

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A term used to describe the ability of users to perform in digital environments. Learn more in: A Holistic Model of Thinking Skills in the Digital Era

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Literacy skills and strategies employed to navigate and comprehend digital content in a variety of modalities. Learn more in: Bye-Bye Basal: Multimodal Texts in the Classroom