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UNT CECS 5200 Digital Literacy
Digital literacy Overview
Digital literacy specifically engages technology and cultural resources creating and communicating meaningful information using various technology and increases social and cultural awareness and individual participation (Hague, C., & Payton, 2011). Technology pushes the boundaries disseminating content matching a specific psychomotor behavior and internal cognitive processes. For example, mobile technology illustrates digital literacy concepts.
Digital literacy engagement uses various factors or tool to reshape the technological engagement, community interaction, and information expressions (Hague, C., & Payton, 2011). Multiple technology tools-sets assist individuals to communicate, design, or express different ideas within a meaningful application. Digital literacy increases social negation, internal mental models, critical thinking processes, independent studies, creative self-expression, and positively or negatively affects psychological behaviors or attitudes. (Hague, C., & Payton, 2011).
Real World Environment
Mobile engagement provides an individual physical and mental choice to interact with the content producing immediate feedback or meaningful data. Mobile design gesturing integrates various digital literacy aspects using social negotiation as another tool reshaping one's opinion or internal disposition. Mobile is an extension of oneself incorporating digital literacy concepts.
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Describes Digital Literacy Components
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Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Developing digital literacies. (2014, December 16). Retrieved September 26, 2015, from https://www.jisc.ac.uk/full-guide/developing-digital-literacies
Digital literacy concepts and components engage our everyday life. Digital tools translate data into user usable and malleable information. The user’s response identifies seven sub-digital literacy components are determining a specific need or task application. Individual multi-literacy components such as Media, Technology, Information, Visual, Communication and Social literacy supports digital literacy components. Multi-literacy describes individual knowledge base and skill requirements for digital media tools usage. For example, creating a basic a web page requires organizational and writing skills, basic web design production, and technical comprehension. Multi-literacy nonlinear process manipulates digital literacy processes using various technology and components resulting in a communication media or medium project.
Digital Literacy Definition
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