Safety by Literacy? Rethinking the Role of Digital Skills in Improving Online Safety

This article presents a study that applies integrated and multi-factor path analysis to report the direct and indirect effects of young Brazilian individual and home factors on their online opportunities and risks. The results show that engaging in more online opportunities, being older and having a lower level of parental mediation are associated with a higher number of online risks. At the same time, being older, having Internet access at home, having parents with a higher educational level, possessing more digital skills and receiving a higher level of co-use and active parental mediation are positively associated with online opportunities. Although restrictive parental mediation is negatively associated with online risks, it also reduces opportunities. In addition, co-use and active mediation are positively associated with parental educational level. These findings offer a starting point to understand children’s online behaviour and digital inclusion in Latin America and analyse its differences with other regions.

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Opetuksen ja oppimisen digiloikka kieltenopiskelijoiden silmin

AFinLAn vuosikirja ◽

10.30661/afinlavk.69213 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 61-76

Author(s):

Anne Huhtala

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

New Technologies ◽

Sedentary Lifestyle ◽

Qualitative Content Analysis ◽

Open Questions ◽

Technology In Teaching ◽

Digital Skills

This article focuses on how university language students reflect on digitalisation and their own digital skills, and what kinds of benefits and risks they see in the increasing use of digital technology in teaching and learning. The data used for this study are of two kinds: 25 students filled in a questionnaire consisting of open questions about digitalisation, and 10 students wrote an essay where they reflected on the role of digital technology in their lives. The data were analysed by using qualitative content analysis. According to the results, university students experience their digital skills as good, and rely on their ability to learn new skills when needed. They describe the role of ICT in their lives as important, but seem to use digital technology with deliberation. They see several benefits in the use of new technologies, e.g., versatility, but also many risks, including problems caused by a sedentary lifestyle.

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THE ROLE OF DIGITAL SKILLS IN PR

ICERI2019 Proceedings ◽

10.21125/iceri.2019.2671 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Raluca Silvia Ciochina ◽

Diana Maria Cismaru ◽

Ramona Bianca Scurtu

Keyword(s):

Digital Skills

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Children and Youth Librarians

Advances in Library and Information Science - Special Library Administration, Standardization and Technological Integration ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-9542-9.ch002 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 25-50

Author(s):

Sylvia Vincent Stavridi ◽

Dalia Ragaa Hamada

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Digital Literacy ◽

Technical Skills ◽

Literacy Skills ◽

Children And Youth ◽

High Tech ◽

Specific Knowledge ◽

Digital Skills ◽

Children And Young Adults

In a high-tech environment where knowledge and information are delivered in a fast paced mode, the role of librarians serving children and young adults is being re-directed from being solely responsible for information and knowledge transfer to teaching and research. The children and young adult libraries at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina have been trying to extend their ways to deliver the services and understand the challenges in integrating various technologies. The chapter locates a series of technology competencies and skills that are currently expected of librarians working with children and young adults. In addition to their non-technical skills, librarians have to be technologically empowered and learn a variety of technical behaviors and acquire the digital skills needed to embrace the constantly changing complexities and advances in digital technology. This chapter upgrades the digital literacy skills in discipline-specific knowledge to support the integration of digital proficiencies as relevant skills for librarians to serve in their new role as teacher librarian.

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