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Digital literacy can be defined as the ability to
locate, evaluate, create and communicate
information on various digital platforms.
 • It finds its origin in information and computer literacy so much
that the skills competencies listed by Shapiro and Hughes (1996)
in a curriculum envisioned to promote computer literacy should
sound very familiar to readers today:

3.) SOCIAL-STRUCTURAL
1.) TOOL LITERACY 2.) RESOURCE LITERACY
LITERACY
 6.) EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES LITERACY
4.) RESEARCH LITERACY

5.) PUBLISHING LITERACY 7.) CRITICAL LITERACY

 M E D I A LITERACY:
“ The ability to identify different types of media and
understand the messages they are communicating.
”

DIGITAL LITERACY
“ Seen as “media literacy applied to the
digital media” with a few adjustment. ”
According to Lanham (1995) the
digitally literate person” as being
skilled at deciphering and
understanding the meanings of
images, sound, and the subtle uses of So that he/she could match the medium of
words. communication to the kind of information being
presented and to whom intended audience is.
PAUL GILSTER (1997)
DIGITAL LITERACY
“The ability to understand and use
information in multiple formats from a wide
range of sources when it is presented via
computers. He also explained that not only
a person must acquire the skill of finding
things, he/she must also acquire the ability
to use these things in life.
• Bawden (2008) collated the skills and competencies comprising digital literacies
from contemporary scholars on the matter into four groups

1.) UNDERPINNINGS:
Refers to those skills and
competencies that “support” or
“enable” everything else within
digital literacy, namely: traditional
literacy and computer literacy.
2.) BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE

Refers to knowing where information

on a particular subject or topic can
be found. How information is kept
and how it is disseminated.
3.) CENTRAL COMPETENCIES

Skills and competencies that majority of

scholars agree on as being core to digital
literacy today, namely:
• Reading & understanding digital & non-digital formats
• Creating & communicating digital information
• Evaluation of Information
• Knowledge Assembly
• Information Literacy
• Media Literacy
4.) ATTITUDES AND PERSPECTIVES

“It is not enough to have skills and

competencies; they must be grounded in
some moral framework” Specifically:

• INDEPENDENT LEARNING
• MORAL/SOCIAL LITERACY