AI & Digital Life · 45 sec
Digital literacy
A useful mental model for the technology shaping daily life.
The useful idea
- The useful idea
Digital literacy is an individual's ability to find, evaluate, and communicate information using digital devices or digital media platforms, as well as the ability to navigate, evaluate, create, and
- How it works
communicate information in digital environments.
- Why it matters
Digital literacy combines technical and cognitive abilities; it includes using information and communication technologies to create, evaluate, and share information, and critically examining their social
Why this matters
Use Digital literacy as a lens when judging what a digital tool can — and cannot — do.
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Use Digital literacy as a lens when judging what a digital tool can — and cannot — do.
Test your recall
Which idea belongs to the explanation of Digital literacy?
- How it works
- The useful idea — correct
- Why it matters
Digital literacy is an individual's ability to find, evaluate, and communicate information using digital devices or digital media platforms, as well as the ability to navigate, evaluate, create, and