Digital Literac

DIGITAL LITERACY SKILLS IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
Nael Malic Yabo Gantalao.
INTRODUCTION.
Digital Literacy is about being able to make sense of digital media. This occurs through meaningful and
sustainable consumption and curation patterns that improve an individuals potential to contribute to an
authentic community. This includes the ability to analyze, prioritize, and act upon the countless digital
media 21st century citizens encounter on a daily basis.
Essential skills developed by the digital literacy are:
Knowledge
Exploration
Decision making
Digital literacy helps students to develop some essential life skills. Few essential life skills that a student
needs are as follows:
Creative Thinking : thinking out of box
Critical Thinking : ability to analyze
Empathy
Communication skills
Coping with emotions
Interpersonal skills
Stress management
Problem Solving Skills
Self-awareness
Decision Making
Digital skills have become important for work and life:

Digital literacy is crucial to helping students’ lifelong learners. It helps them essential life skills as well as
academic skills.They help students use critical thinking skills to evaluate the quality of digital sources and
information,which in turn help students communicate better.
Digital literacy boosts student engagement. When students use powerful content-creation tools for their
assignments and projects, they engage more deeply with content, which helps them better understand
information and communicate their knowledge in visually and digitally compelling ways.
Benefits of digital literacy:
This boosts student’s engagement.
Digital literacy helps students stand out from competition in the job market
This makes your schools more competitive
Driving digital literacy is easier than you think.
How parents can cover up their technology gape.
Keep an open discussion about digital issues
Keep an open mind rather than fear new technologies.
Engage with the technology yourself so you can remain credible, model good behavior.
Seek a balance in digital life.
How blended learning can be helpful to cover-up POST covid conceptual lackness in students.
This is the time to move beyond the classroom with blended learning.
Collaboration: This is most diversified group in education learning. Ranging from technical
fields to extremely esthetic ones like Arts, music and philosophy.
Library access: After COVID scenario, since social distancing become a norm, libraries became
off limits for students. Therefore, providing virtual libraries is the way forward. A one step
platform to access e-copy of books overcome the need to purchase physical books, which they
would use only for a term or two.
Track and Improve engagement
Personalization
Reduce stress and increase student satisfaction

More deeper learning.
So, while concluding all the above discussion, we can say that Digital literacy is the need of the hour in
21st century specially for students. Equipped with the proper digital literacy skills, student can make
more of their education ventures even throughout the pandemic period.
Nael Malic Yabo Gantalao
Introduction.
Digital literacy skills involves any number of digital reading and writing techniques across multiple
media forms. These media include words, texts, visual displays, motion graphics, audio, video, and
multimodal forms. There are myriad cognitive processes at play, along a continuum from consumption
to production when a reader is immersed with digital content as well as with print text. The purpose of
this chapter is to (1) define digital literacy from multiple theoretical viewpoints, (2) illustrate how the
definition continues to evolve in light of emerging technologies, and (3) discuss the cognitive, social, and
affective dimensions of digital literacy as it is a key requirement in contemporary K-12 education.
Digital literacy practices involve the ability to locate and consume, create, and communicate digital
content, while simultaneously employing a process of critical evaluation
Digital Literacy is about being able to make sense of digital media. This occurs through meaningful and
sustainable consumption and curation patterns that improve an individuals potential to contribute to an
authentic community. This includes the ability to analyze, prioritize, and act upon the countless digital
media 21st century citizens encounter on a daily basis.
Essential skills developed by the digital literacy are:
Knowledge
Exploration
Decision making
Digital literacy helps students to develop some essential life skills. Few essential life skills that a student
needs are as follows:
Creative Thinking : thinking out of box
Critical Thinking : ability to analyze
Empathy
Communication skills
Coping with emotions
Interpersonal skills
Stress management
Problem Solving Skills
Self-awareness
Decision Making
Digital skills have become important for work and life:
Digital literacy is crucial to helping students’ lifelong learners. It helps them essential life skills as well as
academic skills.They help students use critical thinking skills to evaluate the quality of digital sources and
information,which in turn help students communicate better.
Digital literacy boosts student engagement. When students use powerful content-creation tools for their
assignments and projects, they engage more deeply with content, which helps them better understand
information and communicate their knowledge in visually and digitally compelling ways.
Benefits of digital literacy:
This boosts student’s engagement.
Digital literacy helps students stand out from competition in the job market
This makes your schools more competitive
Driving digital literacy is easier than you think.
How parents can cover up their technology gape.
Keep an open discussion about digital issues
Keep an open mind rather than fear new technologies.
Engage with the technology yourself so you can remain credible, model good behavior.
Seek a balance in digital life.
How blended learning can be helpful to cover-up POST covid conceptual lackness in students.
This is the time to move beyond the classroom with blended learning.
Collaboration: This is most diversified group in education learning. Ranging from technical
fields to extremely esthetic ones like Arts, music and philosophy.
Library access: After COVID scenario, since social distancing become a norm, libraries became
off limits for students. Therefore, providing virtual libraries is the way forward. A one step
platform to access e-copy of books overcome the need to purchase physical books, which they
would use only for a term or two.
Track and Improve engagement
Personalization
Reduce stress and increase student satisfaction
More deeper learning.
So, while concluding all the above discussion, we can say that Digital literacy is the need of the hour in
21st century specially for students. Equipped with the proper digital literacy skills, student can make
more of their education ventures even throughout the pandemic period.

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DIGITAL LITERACY SKILLS IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

Nael Malic Yabo Gantalao.

Essential skills developed by the digital literacy are:

Creative Thinking : thinking out of box

Critical Thinking : ability to analyze

Coping with emotions

Problem Solving Skills

Digital skills have become important for work and life:

Benefits of digital literacy:

This boosts student’s engagement.

This makes your schools more competitive

Driving digital literacy is easier than you think.

How parents can cover up their technology gape.

Keep an open discussion about digital issues

Keep an open mind rather than fear new technologies.

Seek a balance in digital life.

fields to extremely esthetic ones like Arts, music and philosophy.

would use only for a term or two.

Track and Improve engagement

Reduce stress and increase student satisfaction

Nael Malic Yabo Gantalao

Essential skills developed by the digital literacy are:

Creative Thinking : thinking out of box

Critical Thinking : ability to analyze

Coping with emotions

Problem Solving Skills

Digital skills have become important for work and life:

Benefits of digital literacy:

This boosts student’s engagement.

This makes your schools more competitive

Driving digital literacy is easier than you think.

How parents can cover up their technology gape.

Keep an open discussion about digital issues

Keep an open mind rather than fear new technologies.

Seek a balance in digital life.

would use only for a term or two.

Track and Improve engagement

Reduce stress and increase student satisfaction

More deeper learning.

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