NMC Report on Digital Literacy •http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2016-nmc-horizon-strategic-brief-digital-literacy.pdf
ALA definition:
ALA Digital Literacy Task Force defines digital literacy as the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both technical and cognitive skills.
Vanderbilt White Paper (12/17) Definition:
We define digital literacy (or, indeed, digital literacies) as a constellation of practices necessary for full participation in contemporary culture (social, political, workforce). In addition to computational skills, a digitally literate person has the capability to produce, curate, share and critically consume and synthesize information in a variety of digital (and non-digital) forms. Moreover, digital literacy includes a person’s ability to communicate ideas through multiple means of digital design and to decipher and critically reflect on mediated communication while also assessing their own ethical responsibilities in participating or sharing information.
Digital literacy is an educational expectation; it is required for all citizens, regardless of how often they communicate via digital means. Media ecologists indicate that the logic of a culture changes as its dominant media change, therefore the logic of contemporary culture is changing for everyone, regardless of media usage. Second, we assume that the means of communication themselves have a type of agency that acts upon, and alters, what it means to be human in each instance. People act “with” technologies, and technologies act “on” people. As a result, digital literacy must be an element of all education in the same way that literacy and reasoning must be.
NMC: Levels
Universal or Functional digital literacy
- Can find, assess, and use information
- Competent with basic productivity software—office productivity, image manipulation, social media
Creative Literacy
- Emphasizes the producer side
- Advanced graphic, video, textual production skills
- Develop social digital skills connected to digital citizenship, including online ethics, privacy and security issues, and building and maintaining an authentic and ethical digital identity.
- Knowledgeable about copyright
Literacy Across Curriculu
- Diffuses digital literacy skills – consumer and creator skills – throughout the curriculum focusing on the “soft skills” like collaboration, critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity