Along the way to Digital City (my term) in the past 20 years, I've noticed that little attention has been paid to defining digital literacy for the broader public view. The time appears to have arrived. A small search for digital literacy definitions shows an overwhelming current movement to prepare a definition to which all can relate. Here is an example http://connect.ala.org/node/140464 . On this site IOTP states that:
Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information requiring both cognitive and technical skills.
Outside of some sentence construction issues this appears to work fairly well for IOTP members. Stephen Abram comments on IOTP's definition at http://stephenslighthouse.com/2012/04/08/the-definition-of-digital-literacy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-definition-of-digital-literacy .
It seems to me that we still haven't got the definition yet.
Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information requiring both cognitive and technical skills.
Outside of some sentence construction issues this appears to work fairly well for IOTP members. Stephen Abram comments on IOTP's definition at http://stephenslighthouse.com/2012/04/08/the-definition-of-digital-literacy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-definition-of-digital-literacy .
It seems to me that we still haven't got the definition yet.
