DIGITAL LITERACY

Understanding Digital Literacies and Learning in a Digital Age

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Understanding Digital Literacies and Learning in a Digital Age

Introduction

The "digital literacy" is the process of providing the population subject to the concepts and methods and practices, which allow students and other users to have knowledge through means of their digital devices, which can provide them access to the information, which can be based on any remote location. It is also known as media literacy, which is the ability to organize, locate for the processing and handling of the reports and data or information, decision and knowledge. It include the searching and methods of evaluation of information, aspects either ethical or moral, knowledge and decision and ethical and methodological communication in the world that have now become digital. It involves the knowledge of the cutting edge and technology that works today as a means of understanding and gaining information by means of how it can be used. It is often seen that digitally literate people can communicate well enough and can portray what they have been working on very well. Especially, with efficient use of the skills and knowledge.

The "information literacy" is the process of providing the population subject to concepts, and practice for the handling and processing of data in reports information, knowledge and decision. It includes methods for searching and evaluation of information, items of information culture and its aspects ethical and methodological and ethical communication in the world digital. Such programs are usually long and progressive.

In terms of the learning, research regarding the literacy that is digital is of much broader issues and have much public focus related to effectively leaning use, find, evaluate, summarize and the communicate information using the digital technology and it does not mean that only with the ability to use a computer.

Discussion

The digital literacy comprises computer software, computer hardware knowledge. Particularly cell phones, Internet, PDAs (those most regularly used in business) and the other digital devices. A person is called a digital citizen who is skilled with such skills to interact with society.

One cannot speak of literacy in the digital age highlight the importance of Internet as a tool and as an object of critical analysis. Especially when you consider that large communication networks have led to a new relational environment. Cyberspace is a phenomenon that already has been considered to be one of those that have helped shape modern society.

This approach leads, in the case of the Internet, not to remain in the description of the different services and operation, but to elaborate on its significance in today's society and the implications educational arising from the explosion of the communication network. We agree with Warschauer (1999) and many other authors in the development of Internet current event are the most influential on literacy.

What printing meant for written verbal language, it is assuming Internet for hypertext and in not too distant future; it will be for the new multimedia languages. Noriega (2002) highlights the role of the Internet in disseminating multimedia language considers ...