Digital age literacies comprise essential skills to navigate the internet and digital technologies, including computer literacy, technological literacy, visual literacy, news literacy, and information literacy. Each category emphasizes different competencies, from using computers and evaluating technology's societal role to interpreting visual information and assessing news credibility. A digitally literate citizen is proficient in managing and utilizing information effectively across various platforms.

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2. Digital age literacies an ensemble of the skills
and knowledges necessary to navigate the
internet and ever-expanding world of digital
technology.
 Includes working with computers for various
applications, surfing the internet, accessing
information from various internet sites, navigating
the World Wide Web, chatting and video
conferencing, and using multimedia equipment.

3. Digital age literate citizens make
use of digital technologies and
equipment wisely, productively,
and positively.

4. Category of Digital Literacies
1.Computer literacy
 involves knowing how to use the computer
independently both its software and hardware
components.
 a computer-literate individual can access,
manage, synthesize, assess, evaluate, create,
and disseminate information using computer.

5. 2. Technological literacy
 knowing the use of computer and emerging
technologies such as mobile phones and
tablets, video conferencing facilities, multimedia
equipment, and other devices that are products
of human innovation.
 Technology is primary driver of human
civilization.

6. Technologically literate person is
someone who appreciates and
understands the role of technology
in society, how it shapes history,
and how society is shaped by it.

7. 3. Visual literacy
 first defined by John Debes in 1969 as ‘’ a group of
vision-competencies a human being can develop
by seeing and at the same time having and
integrating other sensory experiences.’’
 a visually literate person can integrate visual
information with those presented in other forms
(such as text); he/she can also interpret visual
information, decode meanings and find its
congruence with the information it is presented
with.

8. 4. News literacy
 all about appreciating, understanding, and
verifying the reliability and credibility of
information that comes from a news source,
whether it comes front print, radio, television, or
the internet.
 in its simplest form, news literacy asks the
question: Why should I believe this news?

9. News literate person will know how to
consume news critically and assess if
the information is reliable and
unreliable.

10. News literate person knows the
difference between journalism and
other kinds of information
dissemination.

11. News literate person can
differentiate between news and
opinion.

12. 5. Information literacy
 a set of skills and competencies that enable people
to make informed judgements and decisions on the
type of information they need, where to access it,
and how they will use it to make decisions.
 it involves the skill to use information and
communication technologies, including the
applications that will also allow them to create and
disseminate information.

13.  Information literate individual knows how to
identify information needs and calibrate the
amount and volume of information needed for
a particular undertaking or concern.
Individual can also synthesize the information
gathered and present it to the others using
formats most relevant to both the content and
the audience.