This document discusses the concept of digital literacy and its importance in modern society. Digital literacy refers to an individual's ability to use digital tools and access, evaluate, and communicate information online. The scope of literacy has broadened beyond traditional reading and writing to include visual and electronic skills. There are many types of literacies that have developed within different social contexts, including digital literacy, information literacy, and media literacy. Attaining a good understanding of digital formats and information is an essential part of being digitally literate. The development of technology both shapes relationships in society but is also shaped by social and cultural forces. Education plays an important role in developing digital literacy competencies.

1. by Edilson R. Rocha
Digital LiteracyDigital Literacy

2. Literacy and literaciesLiteracy and literacies
The concept of literacy includes visual,
electronic, and digital forms of expression
and communication. Modern literacy has
broadened in scope, as it is tied to
technology and culture, and the ability to
become and remain literate requires a
long term commitment (Cordes, 2009).

3. There are many literacies that can be identified within
varying social contexts and under varying social
conditions
• Information literacy;
• Computer literacy;
• Library literacy;
• Media literacy;
• Network literacy;
• Digital literacy;

4. Digital LiteracyDigital Literacy
Digital Literacy is the awareness, attitude
and ability of individuals to appropriately use
digital tools and facilities to identify, access,
manage, integrate, evaluate, analyse and
synthesize digital resources, construct new
knowledge, create media expressions, and
communicate with others, in the context of
specific life situations, in order to enable
constructive social action; and to reflect
upon this process. (Martin, 2006)

5. Digital Literacy in society
Attaining as good na understanding
of what the new forms of
information are, and where they fit
into the world of digital information,
has to be an essential start in bieng
digitally literate.
 Reading and understanding
digital and non-digital formats;
 Evaluation of information;
 Knowledge assembly;
 Information literacy
 Media literacy.

6. Digital literacy in education: basic competencies
for teachers and learners.
http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/digital-literacy-skills/

7. Digital Literacy in the 21st century.
https://gregmiller21stcenturyleadership.wordpress.com/tag/competencies/

8. Global impact of digital literacy

9. Thinking about new technologies as
"opportunities to improve the world" is
necessarily thinking about education.
According to Mark Warschauer (2003),
deterministic discourses related to technology
assume that their development is in ways that
are beyond cultural or political control, and,
therefore, that technology is capable of
exercising, autonomously, Inherent in their
own technical nature, effects on the social
world.

10. Conclusion
The most adequate notion of the society-
technology relationship, especially in
relation to education, must take as
presupposition that technology, like
language, both shapes and organizes
relationships (such as those between
teachers, authors and students) as the
same time, shaped and organized by
these same forces (when students,
authors and teachers, through their uses
modify the language).

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