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Yunus Altar ÖZTÜRK
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Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.

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Digital literacy is a way of making classes more fun and interesting. For instance, students are sicked and tired of looking a book for hours. They wish to see something colourful and interesting and this is what exactly digital literacy gives them. With a lot of different activities and easy-to-prepare slide shows, the new of education is digital literacy. And also, learning how to use to computer is a skill that is useful all lifetime long. Because, as the world changes, everyone has to know how to use computer and in a digital environment, young brains are easily learn how to use the computer effectively. This leads them to be one more step ahead from their opponents.

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Character: Through digital literacy, students will be able to hone their traits like resilience, perseverance and strength of purpose. Along with these improvements, you will also develop an innate push to embrace learning as part of your everyday lifestyle.
Creativity: Only when you ask intelligent questions, will you develop your creativity. Your creativity will come to the fore when you develop an ability to weigh and grab your opportunities coming out of fresh entrepreneurial ideas presented by online platforms.
Cooperation: This trait is to work in tandem with others alongside demonstrating strong team-based and interpersonal skills.
Critical Thinking: Applying logic to everything that happens around you is the basic premise behind developing a critical mindset. In doing so, you will be prompted to evaluate information while identifying different patterns and associations between various elements. Eventually, you will be able to lay hands on resourceful information that can find a place in the real world.
Communication: The ability to communicate better with different audiences is an essential arm of digital literacy. When you focus on this aspect of expressing your thoughts and views to global audience, you will be employing different tools and methodologies that will make your communication effective to every online reader or viewer.
Citizenship: Here, your value system comes to the front when you develop a holistic view of the world around you. Through a deeper understanding of societal issues, you will be able to come up with solutions to complex problems involving diverse beliefs and values.

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4.Why is it important to teach DL skills to our students ?

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4.Why is it important to teach DL skills to our students ?

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As the world changes, some requirements are changing as well. So, the students must learn how to find quality sources and evaluate their effectiveness in order to help them accomplish their purpose or task. They must also learn how to use those sources to inspire their own original ideas to be shared with others. These skills are crucial to helping students succeed past graduation. Digital literacy helps students interact with their digital world effectively. By teaching digital literacy to students, they are being prepared to enter adulthood and be successful in their careers. This is part of being a good digital citizen. Students don’t always know what they send out into the digital universe will be there forever. Teaching them how to be a positive digital citizen is crucial.

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5. What is the role of English language teachers in teaching DL skills ?

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5. What is the role of English language teachers in teaching DL skills ?

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The role of the teacher in DL classes is not much complicated. The teacher first find a site, test or an application and examine it. As all know, internet is as dangerous place as its safe. So, checking the sources' reliability is under the teachers responsibility. Then, check the answer because there can be some wrong questions. To prevent this, the questions and the topic must be checked. Finally, get the scores. These are all the role of a DL language teacher.

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6.How can we teach digital literacy skills in the classroom ?

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6.How can we teach digital literacy skills in the classroom ?

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Well, to answer this question, here is a video about how can we teach :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9w09VPNtbA

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padlet.com
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000214485
https://www.schoology.com/blog/epic-guide-digital-literacy-education
https://www.teachhub.com/technology-classroom-what-digital-literacy