Also called

e- literacy
cyber literacy
information literacy
 DIGITAL LITERACY

The ability to
locate, evaluate,
create, and
communicate
information on
various digital
platforms.
 DIGITAL LITERACY

The technical,
cognitive, and
sociological skills
needed to perform
tasks and solve
problems in digital
environments.
Eshet- Akalai, 2004
 DIGITAL LITERACY

The ability to understand and use

information in multiple formats
from a wide range of sources
when it is presented via
computers. A person must not
only acquire the skill of finding
things, he/ she must also acquire
the ability to use these things in
life.
 DIGITAL LITERACY

Skills and competencies comprising digital

literacy from contemporary scholars:
Bawden, 2008

 Underpinnings- skills and competencies that

“support” or “enable” everything else within
digital literacy
traditional literacy and computer/ ICT
literacy (the ability to use computers in everyday
life)
 DIGITAL LITERACY

 Background Knowledge- knowing where information

on a particular subject or topic can be found, how
information is kept, and how it is disseminated

 Central Competencies- skills and competencies that a

majority of scholars agree on as being core to digital
literacy today
- reading and understanding digital and non- digital formats
- creating and communicating digital information
- evaluation of information
- knowledge assembly
- information literacy
- media literacy
 DIGITAL LITERACY

 Attitudes and Perspectives- skills and competencies

grounded in some moral framework
- independent learning- that initiative and ability to
learn whatever is needed for a person’s specific situation
- moral/ social literacy- an understanding of
correct, acceptable, and sensible behavior in a digital
environment
 CYBERSECURITY

The practice of protecting systems, networks

and programs from digital attacks.
(Cisco)

What are the

1. accessing, changing or
aims of destroying sensitive information
cyberattacks? 2. extorting money from users
3. interrupting normal business
processes
 CYBERSECURITY

1. Monitor behavior on social

How to networks.
protect
yourself 2. Keep devices safe.
against 3. Understand how best to use
cyber passwords.
threats?
4. Handle unsafe content.
5. Consider safety for the future.
 CYBER CITIZENSHIP

Refers to being responsible when using

the internet.

The power of the digital world is

associated with responsibilities and
consequences.
 CYBER CITIZENSHIP

1. Be careful and critical for

How to whatever you post online that
be a could be visible to the public
good even if on a “private” page
cyber through tagging by a friend.
citizen? 2. If you have a problem with
someone, go to that person or an
adult to help work it out, instead
of posting your expression online.
 CYBER CITIZENSHIP

3. Use the internet to help you with your

schoolwork but give credit to the
How to
sources you use and critically analyze
be a
everything you search online
good
cyber 4. Use the internet purposefully to learn
citizen? more about anything you are
interested in, to help you research
relevant and needed data or
information and to stay connected
with friends throughout the world.
 CYBER CITIZENSHIP

5. Make sure you verify an

How to
information before you share it, or
be a use it in a project and check on
good accuracy and truth in the
cyber information you search on the
citizen? web.
6. Give out certain information only.
7. Don’t answer questions that make
you uncomfortable.
 CYBER CITIZENSHIP

8. Always make sure you have told a

How to reliable adult if you decide to
be a meet someone you knew through
good the internet.
cyber 9. Always be aware of copyright laws
citizen? and give credit to whom an article
or a part of it is due.
10. Use only that computers that you
are allowed to use. Avoid hacking.
 CYBER CITIZENSHIP

Importance of cyber citizenship

1. It keeps the internet free from hurtful statements.

2. It creates a culture of more reliable information.
3. It gives provisions for people to be given credit
for what they have created.
4. More criminals or bullies can be caught when
kids are honest and talk to adults.
5. It keeps information private.
 The Ten Commandments of
Teacher Cyber Citizenship

1. Thou shall not post any personal matter,

confidential information and obscene
pictures and messages online that can be
accessed by students and parents.
2. Thou shall not respond or thread to any
personal message created by students
online other than those school- related.
3. Thou shall not lend or let students access
your cellphone.
 The Ten Commandments of
Teacher Cyber Citizenship
de Leon, 2018

4. Thou shall not give your email password to

students.
5. Thou shall not use concepts and
information from texts and references
without the author’s citation.
6. Thou shall not post to any social media
account, for whatever purposes, the
pictures of students without their or their
parents’ consent.
 The Ten Commandments of
Teacher Cyber Citizenship
de Leon, 2018

7. Thou shall not express sentiments,

disappointments and disagreements
against superiors, colleagues, students and
their parents using their social media
accounts.
8. Thou shall not use data from internet
sources in any documents like lesson plans,
researches and requirements without the
consent of the author.
 The Ten Commandments of
Teacher Cyber Citizenship
de Leon, 2018

9. Thou shall not give any personal data or

other’s information to anyone unless for
specific purposes and given the consent.
10. Thou shall not post any student data
publicly online including academic
rankings, school records, class outputs and
record of grades.
 SOCIO- EMOTIONAL LITERACY
WITHIN DIGITAL LITERACY
“How do I know if another user in a chatroom is who
he says he is?
“How do I know if a call for blood donations in the
internet is real or a hoax?

Socio- emotional literacy requires users to be “very

critical, analytical, and mature”- implying a kind of
richness of experience that the literate transfers from real
life to their dealings online.
 DIGITAL NATIVES
 Popularized by Prensky (2001)

 generation born during the information age and who

has not known a world without computers, the internet,
and connectivity

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS

 generation that acquired familiarity with digital

systems only as adults
 IMPORTANT CONCEPTS AND
PRINCIPLES OF DIGITAL LITERACY

 Teach media and digital literacy integrally.

 Master subject matter.

 Think “multi- disciplinary”.

 Explore motivations, not just messages.

 Leverage skills that students already have.

 What are the Most Popular Social
Media Apps for 2021?

 Facebook  WeChat  LinkedIn

 Instagram  WhatsApp  Snapchat

 Twitter  MeWe  Pinterest

 Tiktok  Tumblr  Telegram

 YouTube  Reddit  Meetup