{"id":2807,"date":"2016-12-18T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2016-12-06T12:45:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:45:57","slug":"why-we-need-digital-literacy-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/2016\/12\/18\/why-we-need-digital-literacy-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need Digital Literacy Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/connect.ala.org\/node\/181197\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American Library Association<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> defines digital literacy as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cthe ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.\u201d The ability to find, evaluate and synthesize information in a digital world with massive amounts of information has become a key skill in today\u2019s workplace as is the need to communicate and collaborate using online technologies. There is often an assumption that students who have grown up with these technologies are adept with them. However, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/2016\/09\/20\/digital-readiness-gaps\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">research<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> often shows that a person\u2019s age has little to do with their comfort level using technology and rather on the need or desire to interact with these technologies on a regular basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p2k3C-iB88w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To learn more about digital literacy skills and how to integrate them into the curriculum, check out these resources: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jisc.ac.uk\/guides\/developing-students-digital-literacy\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JISC Developing students&#8217; digital literacy<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/net.educause.edu\/ir\/library\/pdf\/ELIR1501.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Educause Faculty Digital Fluencies and Frameworks<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deakin.edu.au\/library\/teach\/digital-literacy\/elements-of-digital-literacy\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deakin University Library\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elements of Digital Literacy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Library Association defines digital literacy as \u201cthe ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.\u201d The ability to find, evaluate and synthesize information in a digital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/2016\/12\/18\/why-we-need-digital-literacy-skills\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,215],"tags":[318,346,329,202],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-days","category-literacy-2","tag-12days","tag-digital-literacy","tag-edtech","tag-literacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2809,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions\/2809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}