​UNT CECS 5200 Digital Literacy

Digital literacy does not determine a “one-size-fits-all” perspective.   Technology creates technical opportunities for users to express individual thoughts, ideas, theories, applying one’s critical thinking and knowledge base skillsets.  Digital literacy encompasses social communities, independent studies, peer-to-peer or one-to-one interactions, and global connectivity, creating new or defining ideas and concepts. 

 

Data mining and data aggregation intermingles into our everyday life.  Technologies use aggregate data and identify real-time data-specific input and social interaction.  Individual actions influence a decision-making process.  For example, “Let us go for dinner, just a second, let me access YELP for reviews.”

 

Big data analytic trends into cloud analytics, data lakes, noSQL, and artificial intelligence (Mitchell, 2014).  Data mining and data aggregation technology captures individual user choices and combines learner analytics reflecting and identifying social networks, decision patterns, and choices.