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Article: Digital literacy: a conceptual framework for survival skills in the digital era.
- Article from:
- Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
- Author:
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Digital literacy involves more than the mere ability to use
software or operate a digital device; it includes a large
variety of complex cognitive, motor, sociological, and emotional
skills, which users need in order to function effectively in
digital environments. The tasks required in this context
include, for example, "reading" instructions from graphical
displays in user interfaces; using digital reproduction to
create new, meaningful materials from existing ones;
constructing knowledge from a nonlinear, hypertextual
navigation; evaluating the quality and validity of information;
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