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Digital Literacy is... Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, and create information using digital technology. As a Cornell student, activities including writing papers, creating multimedia presentations, and posting information about yourself or others online are all a part of your day-to-day life, and all of these activities require varying degrees of digital literacy. Is simply knowing how to do these things enough? No-there's more to it than that.

A very well done site. Although I am left wondering why they call it "digital" literacy when it is mainly about scholarship and academic levels of literacy in a world that happens to be networked.

from: Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning. A great case study on the need to evaluate your sources (and to take ANYTHING a politician says with a grain of salt)!

JISC funded study page, includes links to report: Thriving in the 21st century: Learning Literacies for the Digital Age

Project Information Literacy Progress Report | February 2009 | Head and Eisenberg

post from Education section of Change.org by Shelly Blake-Plock. Talks about the realities of digital media and the skills necessary to navigate it's various manifestations.

Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning 9.20.12 | Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Michigan published a study earlier this month that found the infamous "information overload" to be less of a reality than previously imagined.

simple, effective model of digital information fluency

College & Research Libraries News, November 2010, 71 (10)

pull quote: "I radically separate technology from new practices that these technologies enable."

an alternative to traditional primary, secondary, etc. terms for sources based on use rather than on source.

Tool for figuring out basic copyright on an item.