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DL 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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1. Ways of Thinking: Creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making and learning.
2. Ways of Working: Communication and collaboration.
3. Tools for Working: Information and communication technology (ICT) and information literacy.
4.Skills for Living in the World: Citizenship, life and carreer and personal-social responsibility.
5.Collaborative Problem Solving: Working together to solve a common challenge, which involves the contribution and exchange of ideas, knowledge or resources to achieve the goal.
6. ICT Literacy: Learning through digital means, such as social networking, ICT literacy, technological awareness and simulation.

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Why is It Important to Teach DL Skills to Our Students?

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Why is It Important to Teach DL Skills to Our Students?

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1. Motivates students in their learning due to their enjoyment and ease of use with various technological mediums.
2. Reaches students of various learning styles.
3. Allows students to create and design their own unique products reflective of their personalities and learning needs/styles.
4. Encourages students to manipulate media to construct their own meaning.
5. Enables students the chance to explore technological mediums which in inevitable increase job skills that employers look for in the workforce.

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What is the Role of English Language Teachers in Teaching DL Skills?

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What is the Role of English Language Teachers in Teaching DL Skills?

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Students learn by practising with the help of ELT teachers. Computers and the Internet are natural contexts to practise language skills for real life tasks.
Teachers can use instructional activities that provide both an opportunity to practice digital skills and strengthen the problem solving process implicit in knowing what skill to use and when.

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1. Emphasize the importance of critical thinking.
2. Use social media for learning and collaborating.
3. Provide guidance on how to avoid plagiarism.
4. Teach students to manage their online identity.
5. Help students manage digital distractions.
6. Provide authentic contexts for practice.

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https://www.edsys.in/importance-digital-literacy-education/
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/11/09/what-is-digital-literacy.html
https://www.thetechedvocate.org/digital-literacy-important-lifelong-learning-tool/
http://digitalliteracy.us/21st-century-skills/
http://purposefultechnology.weebly.com/how-can-we-embed-digital-literacy-in-the-classroom.html
https://edtech.worlded.org/digital-literacy-second-language-instruction/
https://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/21st-century-skills/7-ways-teach-digital-literacy/
https://pixabay.com/

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1. Students will be 'digital citizens', they will learn the tips connected to the use of technology through this field of education.
2. It is beneficial for profound learning. Emerging in the form of six C's, these are the skills that can be honed, while treading the path of DL.
3. Students will learn how to use internet appropriately.