Digital literacy refers to the ability to use technology and digital tools to find, evaluate, and communicate information. It involves understanding eight essential components including information literacy, digital citizenship, and social networking. As technology advances rapidly, digital literacy classes are becoming more common in schools to help students develop important technology skills and learn how to safely and responsibly participate in a digital world.

1. Digital Literacy
TAYLER DENNEY & SARA HILL
1ST PERIOD
APRIL 17TH 2015

2. What is digital literacy?

3. The eight essentials of digital
literacy

4. Why its important
 Digital literacy is an important topic because technology is
changing faster than society is.
 The same advances that enhance leisure and make our work
easier—those that make it possible for us to search online
databases, text friends, and stream media—also present urgent
challenges to the social norms, market models, and legal
frameworks that structure our society.

5. On the rise
 Digital literacy classes are on the rise in classrooms all around the
country
 The world is becoming immersed in technology and many more
students are learning to keep up with it

6. Information literacy
 Determines the nature and extent of information needed
 Accesses the needed information effectively and efficiently
 Evaluates information and its sources critically and incorporates
selected information into his or her knowledge base and value
system
 Uses information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose
 Understands many of the economic, legal, and social issues
surrounding the use of information, and accesses and uses
information ethically and legally

7. What it is
 Information literacy can no longer be defined without considering
technology literacy in order for individuals to function in an
information-rich, technology-infused world . The National Higher
Education Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Initiative has developed a definition of literacy for the 21st century
which combines cognitive and technical skills with an ethical/legal
understanding of information.

8. Digital citizenship
 uses these skills to actively participate in civic society and contribute
to a vibrant, informed, and engaged community
 Digital citizenship is the norms of appropriate, responsible
technology use.

9. The 9 elements of digital citizenship
 Digital Access: full electronic participation in society.
 Digital Commerce: electronic buying and selling of goods.
 Digital Communication: electronic exchange of information.
 Digital Literacy: process of teaching and learning about technology
and the use of technology.
 Digital Etiquette: electronic standards of conduct or procedure.
 Digital Law: electronic responsibility for actions and deeds
 Digital Rights & Responsibilities: those freedoms extended to everyone
in a digital world.
 Digital Health & Wellness: physical and psychological well-being in a
digital technology world.
 Digital Security (self-protection): electronic precautions to guarantee
safety.

10. Social Networking
 uses these skills and the appropriate technology to communicate
and collaborate with peers, colleagues, family, and on occasion,
the general public

11. Life long learning
 A person who is digitally literate understands the relationship
between technology, life-long learning, personal privacy, and
stewardship of information