scholarly journals Thinking in the Digital Era: A Revised Model for Digital Literacy

10.28945/1621 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 267-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoram Eshet-Alkalai
Keyword(s):  
Author(s):  
Dragana Martinovic ◽  
Viktor Freiman ◽  
Chrispina S. Lekule ◽  
Yuqi Yang

This chapter contains findings related to social aspects of digital activities of youth. Computers, mobile devices, and the internet are increasingly used in everyday social practices of youth, requiring competencies that are largely still not being taught in schools. To thrive in the digital era, youth need to competently use digital tools and define, access, understand, evaluate, create, and communicate digital information. Being able to develop perceptions of, and respect for, social norms and values for functioning in the digital world, without compromising one's own privacy, safety, or integrity is also important. After addressing the social prospects of information and communication technology (ICT) use among youth, this chapter describes their online behavior through the paradoxical nature of the internet (i.e., providing opportunities for social development vs. introducing risks). Educators and youth services are advised to consider these factors in designing flexible, innovative, and inclusive programs for young people that use ICT.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1004-1014
Author(s):  
Reni Pawestuti Ambari Sumanto ◽  
Henny Puji Astuti ◽  
Ni Kadek Aris Rahmadani ◽  
R Agustinus Arum Eka Nugroho

NUTRITIONAL PARENTING ASSISTED WHATSAPP; DIGITAL LITERACY TO SUPPORT THE HEALTHY GENERATION OF ACHIEVERS. Parents have an important role in a family. Parental involvement in childcare has great potential to be developed. The potential of parents in parenting can be optimized through the potential of human and technological resources. In the current digital era, the potential for parental involvement can be strengthened by whatsapp-based digital literacy. Whatsapp is a technology resource that can convey various forms of messages such as text messages, voice messages, picture messages, even voice and video calls. This activity aims to empower parents in providing balanced nutrition for children through whatsapp-based parenting activities. The target group used as partners in this activity are parents of toddlers who attend Pos PAUD, at Pos PAUD Lestari II, Semarang City, Central Java. The method used in this activity was the initiation and parenting of whatsapp continuously. The results of activities carried out in the form of whatsapp-based nutrition parenting groups, the number of participants consisted of 20 parents, the results showed there were 85% of parents who had high enthusiasm when whatsapp parenting took place and 35% of parents were able to practice balanced diet for children. This activity needs to be continued given the limited number of parents who can practice balanced diet, the next activity can be in the form of literacy strengthening through peer education activities as an effort to increase parental involvement in fulfilling children's nutritional intake.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Asyti Febliza ◽  
Oktariani Okatariani

This study aims to develop digital literacy instruments for schools, teachers and students whose function is to measure the extent of the digital literacy levels of schools, teachers, and students. It is not possible for a school to follow the development of science and technology if the school's potential is inadequate and its human resources are not ready. Therefore, the development of digital literacy instruments needs to be made in order to identify the level of readiness of schools, teachers and students in facing the digital era in the industrial revolution 4.0. Subjects of the study were 90 respondents consisting of 30 teachers and 60 students in SMA Negeri 14 Pekanbaru. The questionnaire that was made was first validated by 2 expert validators, after being declared valid by the expert validator, then the questionnaire was conducted a limited test to calculate the level of validity and reliability of each question item. The questionnaire uses a Likert scale with 3 categories of answer choices (often, rarely, never or there is, is being planned, no, etc.). Based on the results and conclusions, conclusions can be drawn, namely: the items that can be used as data collection tools on the school digital literacy questionnaire instrument are 23 questions, while the items that can be used as data collection tools on the teacher's digital literacy questionnaire are 52 items and instrument digital student literacy questionnaire as many as 31 questions. Based on the reliability criteria, the three digital literacy questionnaires show high and very high reliability criteria with a reliability level greater than 0.684.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-131
Author(s):  
J. C. Quadrado ◽  
Yu. P. Pokholkov ◽  
K. K. Zaitseva

Facilitated by public administrations and the European Union, higher education institutions should support their teachers so they develop the skills for online and other forms of teaching and learning opened up by the digital era and should exploit the opportunities presented by technology to improve the quality of teaching and learning. The article focuses on new European Union grant programs that empower the increasing of digital literacy in the higher education area, developing cooperation, and overcoming challenges during the coronavirus pandemic. This initiative can empower a new European University and support an international project aimed at certification of professional educators with the participation of a Russian partner.


Author(s):  
Ikrar Genidal Riadil

In the modern and digital era, digital native’s learners are conceived into an era of digital networking. It keeps everything connected to technology. Digital natives with digital technical expertise and abilities which can theoretically be utilized for improved learners’ interaction in the classroom. The government has began to vigorously increase the literacy culture in schools by doing reading literacy. Teachers will be willing to provide an precedent by developing a community of literacy at school. Increased classroom reading atmosphere also improves vocabulary for learners studying English. The Seesaw Media implementation may also help learners to insert allusions to enhance scientific knowledge as a regulatory framework for learning. The aim of this research was to discern the use of Seesaw as the media of literacy to cultivate learners’ vocabulary. This research pursued to answer two research questions; (1) does Seesaw Media helps learners to improve their reading ability? And (2) what are the impacts of Seesaw Media application on the learners on developing vocabulary? The methods used by the researcher were; firstly, the researcher distributed the questionnaire with the English learner's. Secondly, the researcher assessed the feedback from the respondents. Thirdly, the researcher sought the response to the learners on the effect of reading ability by using Seesaw. This research has used descriptive qualitative to conduct the research study. This result of the research has shown the Seesaw Media helped learners to improve their reading ability.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 569
Author(s):  
Sunarti Suly Eraku ◽  
Mohamad Karmin Baruadi ◽  
Samuel PD Anantadjaya ◽  
Siti Fadjarajani ◽  
Ucup Supriatna ◽  
...  

From the teacher's approach to students to the use of media in learning, the learning process has changed dramatically in this digital era. Islamic Religious Education teachers must improve their competence due to the stigma that they are "old teachers" who have difficulty keeping up with developments in the world of information and technology in learning. The purpose of this research is to describe the competence of Islamic Religious Education teachers in the digital age. As a result, the study clearly discusses the competence of teachers and learning in the digital era, as well as the challenges, as well as the strategies of Islamic Religious Education teachers in overcoming the challenges of learning in the digital era. A literature review from several journals and related references was used to demonstrate how a teacher should be in the digital era. Teachers in the digital age must be able to use an information and communication technology-based learning approach to make it easier for students to follow because the information they receive from cyberspace is extremely fast. Finally, Islamic Religious Education teachers must improve their ability to use technology and information-based learning media in the classroom and move away from textbooks. So that the learning process achieves its objectives and provides students with numerous opportunities to develop their learning creativity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-56
Author(s):  
Lubomira Parijkova ◽  

Contemporary children live in a digital era and it is almost impossible for them not to be tempted by technologies. This article presents some interesting results from Bulgarian project „Digital Competencies and Media Education at Pre-school and Primary School Age” (National Science Fund; Н05/8 14.12.2016). In 2018 there were interviewed 637 children from 13 Bulgarian towns. The focus in this article is only 8 years old students and their digital habits. The author is a Member of the team of the COST project ‘Digital literacy and multimodal practices of young children’ (Action IS1410) – DigiLitEY. In March 2019 in Manchester on the final project’s meeting of DigiLitEY were presented results connect ed with the key participants for this COST’s project – up to 8 years old students. This article analyses this aged group and their attitudes of digital technologies.


2011 ◽  
pp. 1840-1845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoram Eshet

The fast development in digital technologies during the digital era confronts individuals with situations that require the utilization of an ever-growing assortment of technical, cognitive, and sociological skills that are necessary in order to perform and solve problems in digital environments. These skills have been termed in recent literature digital literacy (Bruce and Peyton, 1999; Gilster, 1997; Lenham, 1995; Pool, 1997; Swan, Bangert-Drowns, Moore-Cox, & Dugan, 2002; Tapscott, 1998). But unlike the common attitude toward this term in most of these papers, digital literacy is more than just the technical ability to operate digital devices properly; it comprises a variety of cognitive skills that are utilized in executing tasks in digital environments, such as surfing the Web, deciphering user interfaces, working with databases, and chatting in chat rooms. In fact, digital literacy has become a survival skill in the modern era: a key that helps users to work intuitively in executing complex digital tasks. In recent years, extensive efforts were made to describe and conceptualize the cognitive skills that users employ in digital environments (e.g., Burnett & McKinley, 1998; Cothey, 2002; Hargittai, 2002; Zins, 2000). Unfortunately, these efforts are usually local, focusing on a selected and limited variety of skills—mainly information-seeking skills (e.g., Marchionini, 1989; Zins)—and, therefore, they do not cover the full scope of the term digital literacy. Eshet (2004) has established a holistic conceptual model for digital literacy, arguing that it covers most of the cognitive skills that users and scholars employ while working in digital environments and, therefore, providing researchers and designers of digital environments with a powerful framework and design guidelines. This framework was derived from the analysis of large volumes of empirical and qualitative information regarding the behavior of users in digital environments. Its exclusive nature was discussed by Aviram and Eshet (in press), and its feasibility was tested by Eshet and Amichai-Hamburger (2004), who tested the performance of different groups of computer users with tasks that require the utilization of different digital skills. In these experiments they showed that the range of digital skills is restricted to the five skills discussed in the present paper. The present paper describes the major cognitive skills that comprise digital literacy, discusses their value in refining our understanding of how people interact in their work and in digital environments, and examines their application in improving communication among users, scholars, and designers of digital environments. The digital thinking skills that are discussed in the paper are the photovisual, reproductive, branching, informational, and socioemotional thinking skills. We suggest that these five digital thinking skills exist in every learner, but their volumes or magnitudes differ from person to person.


Libri ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dengdeng Wanyan ◽  
Yanqing Dai

Abstract With the development of information technology and the advent of the digital era, the digitization of cultural heritage and the internet-based equal access to the digitized heritage have received worldwide attention. Taking China as a case study, this paper reviews its efforts and challenges to promote equal access to public digital cultural services (PDCS). It starts by introducing the efforts, including PDCS-related legislations, policies and standards issued by the government, and major government-initiated PDCS projects. They are followed by an analysis of its challenges, including deficiencies in government funding, internet penetration, broadband access rates in the Central and Western regions and rural areas, and the limited digital literacy, cultural knowledge, and income levels of certain population groups. This study concludes with the suggestion that promoting equal access to PDCS in less developed regions, rural areas, and vulnerable groups is still an important task in China, and the government needs to work with private sector partners to overcome the challenges.


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