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This article backs up the fact that "digital literacy" means much more than just knowing how to using digital tools. Discernment and judgment are also skills necessary in becoming digitally literate. To survive online you need to identify curators (as the author points out), get in the habit of crosschecking information, and learn now to minimize distractions.

The goal of this project is to promote economic well‐being in remote, rural areas through scientific research based on the principles of the digital and knowledge divides. We advocate that humans can, through their deployment and usage of IT, generate, acquire, disseminate, and utilize the know‐how so as to achieve marked improvement in economic outcomes.

"So I offer up a different call. In high school, teach students how to apply technology. Teach them how technology fits with their domain of interest. Teach them how to use the components not how to build them. Those students that want to become more technical can choose to learn down the stack to real engineering (aka CS, CE, EE) or up the stack to become expert in technical domain applications (IS, CIS, Project Management, Bioinformatics). There are FAR FAR FAR more jobs out there today for someone with the technical skills to build a SharePoint portal, or light up a CRM instance or build a bioinformatics database than there are for someone who can build the next Python compiler. Let's stop trying to train the mass of high school students to become preservation carpenters, and instead make them very good contractors."