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Though information literacy and computer literacy correlates with each other, there are observed
differences between the two. According to a website named Study Moose, information literacy is the
ability to access, organize, evaluate and use information from various sources while computer literacy is
having the knowledge to use technology in order to manipulate computer software or hardware. Both of
these uses critical thinking. However, if you will reflect on their definition, information literacy is broader
than computer literacy in the sense that it does not focuses only on knowledge about computer and how
to manipulate it's tangible and intangible elements, but also accommodates various information from
different sources, filtering them and applying them. Computer literacy, on the other hand, may have
knowledge but not necessarily know when and how to apply it. In order to practice computer literacy,
you only need to have learning about hardware and software in able to learn how computer works and
how to manipulate it. Howerver, in information literacy, you go futher beyond that, by knowing hardware
and software elements plus the persware or the people aspect of the information system.

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