Digital literacy helps people identify and create digital solutions, adapt to new tools, and discover more effective, efficient ways of working. Through study have shown that digital natives can be taught digital literacy. Digital natives are described as people living in the field of digital technology and they have an electronic life around the Internet. Digital literacy guides students’ understanding of technology learning and digital literacy helps students use the Internet responsibly to communicate, socialize and learn. Digital literacy refers to the multiplicity of literacies associated with the use of digital technologies. Digital literacy, which enables people to easily use digital technologies and easily adopt new or unfamiliar technologies. People with a high degree of digital literacy should be able to adapt quickly to emerging technologies and easily acquire new symbolic languages to communicate when they emerge. Digital literacy should be developed in college courses so that the knowledge and skills they acquire can be transferred to the broader context of their future studies and careers. In addition, make students deeper critical analysis of digital material to understand the underlying meaning of the message.
Reference:
Ng, W. Can we teach digital natives digital literacy. Computers & Education, 59(3), 1065-1078.
