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      <pubDate>2025-05-07 06:38:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Digital Literacy Skills vs. Digital Literacy</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Digital Literacy Skills vs. Digital Literacy</p><p><br/></p><p>Digital Literacy Skills are required in the wired world. These skills vary from texts to images to multimedia. Future teachers who will be handling students considered as tech savvy should equip themselves with competencies and fluencies needed to handle the fast emerging tools and applications that should be able to handle even artificial intelligences.</p><p><br/></p><p>Lynch (2017), identified eight digital literacy skills needed to become digitally literate. These are:</p><p><br/></p><p>1. Coding. Coding is a universal language, Basic understanding of HTML, CSS and the like will create a shared understanding of what can be done with the web pages.</p><p><br/></p><p>2. Collaboration. The use of Google Docs among others allows student to begin experimenting with effective online collaboration.</p><p><br/></p><p>3. Cloud software. This is essential part of document management. The cloud is used to store everything from photos to research projects, to term papers and even music,</p><p><br/></p><p>4. Word Processing Software. Google, Microsoft Online Drop Box are available for storage and management solutions.</p><p><br/></p><p>5. Screencasting. A screencast is a video recording using the computer screen, and usually includes an audio. On the other hand, when you take a picture on the screen of your computer, it is called a Printscreen. Both can be used in explaining topics as well as providing a visual support to clarify what you are thinking. While the printscreen is a picture, the screencasting is a video screen capture which is a great way to share ideas and is easy to use for novice video creator.</p><p><br/></p><p>6. Personal Archiving. Students should be taught the concepts of meta-data, tagging, keywords and categories to make them aware how are they represented online.</p><p><br/></p><p>7. Information evaluation. Critical thinking to weed out fake news is a crucial 21" century skill. The use of tools and skills needed to process information are very much needed.</p><p><br/></p><p>8. Use of social media. Social media serves different purposes dépending on the user, the technology and the need. For example, students should realize that Twitter can be useful for staying current on the latest news in the field.</p><p><br/></p><p>Digital literacy has been defined in many ways that is understandable by both digital natives and digital immigrants. Teachers and students should not only be proficient in how to use (digital skills) but they need to see the information and media technology to find, evaluate, create and communicate information requiring both cognitive and technical skills.</p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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