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  • This new era poses major challenges to the flow of news and information people depend on to manage their complex lives. In the context of this report, digital and media literacy is seen as a constellation of life skills that are necessary for full participation in our media-saturated, information-rich society. According to Renee Hobbs, author of the white paper, Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action, these include the ability to do the following: Make responsible choices and access information by locating and sharing materials and comprehending information and ideas Analyze messages in a variety of forms by identifying the author, purpose and point of view, and evaluating the quality and credibility of the content Create content in a variety of forms, making use of language, images, sound, and new digital tools and technologies Reflect on one’s own conduct and communication behavior by applying social responsibility and ethical principles Take social action by working individually and collaboratively to share knowledge and solve problems in the family, workplace and community, and by participating as a member of a community Digital and media literacy competencies, which constitute core competencies of citizenship in the digital age, have enormous practical value. Hobbs identifies a 10-point action plan to enable all Americans to acquire digital and media literacy competencies.
  • Digital literacy requires certain skill sets that are interdisciplinary in nature. Warshauer and Matuchniak list information, media, and technology; learning and innovation skills; and life and career skills as the three skill sets that individuals need to master in order to be digitally literate, or the 21st-century skills
  • Eshet-Alkalai contends that there are five types of literacies that are encompassed in the umbrella term that is digital literacy
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  • (1) Photo-visual literacy is the ability to read and deduce information from visuals.
  • (2) Reproduction literacy is the ability to use digital technology to create a new piece of work or combine existing pieces of work together to make it your own.
  • (3) Branching literacy is the ability to successfully navigate in the non-linear medium of digital space.
  • (4) Information literacy is the ability to search, locate, assess and critically evaluate information found on the web.
  • (5) Lastly, socio-emotional literacy refers to the social and emotional aspects of being present online, whether it may be through socializing, and collaborating, or simply consuming content.
  • Schools are continuously updating their curriculum for digital literacy to keep up with accelerating technological developments.
  • These techniques are most effective when the teacher is digitally literate as well.
  • This means that today's educators may struggle to find effective teaching methods for digital natives. Digital immigrants might resist teaching digital literacy because they themselves weren't taught that way. Prensky believes this is a problem because today's students are "a population that speaks an entirely new language"[5] than the people who educate them.
  • Research published in 2012 found that the digital divide, as defined by access to information technology, does not exist amongst youth in the United States.[18] Young people of all races and ethnicities report being connected to the internet at rates of 94-98%.[18] There remains, however, a Civic Opportunity Gap, where youth from poorer families and those attending lower socioeconomic status schools are less likely to encounter opportunities to apply their digital literacies toward civic ends
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