Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Digital Literacy: A Conceptual Framework

The article I read was published in the year 2004. Six years may not seem like a lot of time; but in the digital world, it might as well be six decades. However, because the article doesn't refer to specific technologies, it still applies to the digital world we see today. Eshet-Alkalai defines and examines the term digital literacy within his article, and explains what digital literacy really means. To him, digital literacy is not simply the ability to use a computer, but a mixture of four distinct literacy skills. In this case, Eshet-Alkalai speaks to an audience of digital users and researchers and hopes to re-work the phrase digital literacy to something which suites it better. He believes that a re-structuring of the phrase will allow people to better communicate with, and understand technology.

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