Digital literacy refers to the ability to use technology and digital tools to find, evaluate, and create information. It involves skills like reading various media formats, manipulating data and images, and applying new knowledge from online environments. As technology has become pervasive in society, digital literacy is now essential for everyday life and education. Teachers face the challenge of preparing students for this new digital reality by developing their own digital skills and teaching in novel ways that incorporate technology and expand learning. Developing students' digital literacy provides benefits like increased autonomy, easier access to information, and opportunities for global communication and collaboration that foster 21st century skills.

1. DIGITAL LITERACY
Natália Cristina do Nascimento dos Santos

2. Concepts
According to The Digital Learning Librarian at the University of
Illinois Digital literacy is:
• The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or
networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information.
• The ability to understand and use information in multiple formats
from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers.
• A person’s ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital
environment... Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret
media, to reproduce data and images through digital
manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained
from digital environments.

3. Digital Literacy in Society
“[...] we live today in a society permeated by the digital, where
our actions are frequently mediated by digital tools[...]”
Allan Martin
• It is almost impossible nowadays, to live in the society
without being familiarized with technology.
• The society in general, mainly professor and students have
to be prepared to deal with the new tools the technology
provides.

4. Digital Literacy in Education
“Technology transforms learning and the conditions for learning.”
Lena Olsson and Eva Edman-Stålbrant
• Digital literacy is a kind of challenge for the teachers.
• They have to be prepared to teach in this new reality and
also, prepare the students.
• Digital literacy expands student’s learning, since it provides
more interaction with the world.

5. 21st Century Skills
Tools for working:
Internet / Wifi - Laptops - Smartphones
Advantages:
• Autonomy
• Easier access to the information
• Communication and collaboration in order to learn
• World knowledge

6. Global Impact of Digital
Literacy
• Rupture of linguistic barriers
• Rupture of cultural barriers
• Establish connections
• Economic and social development

7. Conclusion
Tecnology is always present nowadays and it brings many
advantages. This way, Digital literacy is very important, since
everything is surrounded by technology. The best way to
people became familiarized to technology is the use of
digital literacy in education, but teachers must be prepared
to deal with it in class and students must be well prepared to
this new world.

8. Bibliography
Digital Literacy
http://www.library.illinois.edu/diglit/definition.html
Digital Literacy as a Challenge for Teacher Education
http://www.larum.su.se