Digital Citizenship

Digital Literacy

Digital Literacy: process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology. While schools have made great progress in the area of technology infusion, much remains to be done. A renewed focus must be made on what technologies must be taught as well as how it should be used. New technologies are finding their way into the work place that are not being used in schools (e.g., videoconferencing, Online Course Management Systems such as Blackboard). In addition, workers in many different occupations need information when they need it (just-in-time information). This process requires sophisticated searching and processing skills (i.e., information literacy). Learners must be taught how to learn in a digital society. In other words, learners must be taught to learn anything, anytime, anywhere because society has begun to “learn in this manner.” Business, military, and medicine are excellent examples of how technology is being used differently in the 21st century. As new technologies emerge, students must be taught how to use that technology quickly and appropriately. Digital citizenship involves educating a new breed of person—information workers with a high degree of information literacy skills.