In general, digital literacy refers to one's overall ability to work with digital technology. However, there are many different digital literacies that make up one's overall digital literacy. These digital literacies can be broken up into three main types: the ability to communicate with digital technology, the ability to locate, understand, evaluate, and create information using digital technology, and the ability to entertain oneself using digital technology.
Digital technology is composed of a variety of media, such as computers, cell phones, the Internet, PDAs, and other digital devices. The implementation of these devices contributes greatly to one's digital literacy. To obtain digital literacy means to have a reasonable understanding of how to use many different forms of digital technology to perform tasks. In today's world, digital literacies are nearly essential skills to have to accomplish one's goals.
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It is interesting to me that you bring up the fact that digital literacy can be used for entertainment. I had been focusing so much on the fact that digital literacy can be used for academic purposes that your point had never really crossed my mind. This strikes me as weird because I use facebook and youtube just like everyone else.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that you subdivided digital literacy into different categories was unique; I wish I had thought to do the same. The distinction between these categories is important because a person could very easily be fluent in using digital technology for research and acquiring information, but entirely foreign to utilizing such sites as YouTube for entertainment. Another example would be many people of the older generation who have learned to use email, but have no knowledge of how to use the Internet to research or entertain.
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