Ability to use information and communication technologies to find, critically assess, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.
Comment
- Digital literacy has three dimensions:
- operational dimension: skills and competences that enable reading and writing in diverse digital media (including making meaning with and from diverse modes such as spoken and written language, static and moving images, sounds, screen design, etc.);
- cultural dimension: developing a repertoire of digital literacy practices in specific social and cultural contexts (such as constructing and maintaining effective social, educational or professional relationships online);
- critical dimension: awareness that meaning-making resources are selective and operate as a means of social control (e.g. knowing what Facebook is up to when it reminds you that your profile is not complete). Becoming critically literate with digital media therefore includes not simply participating competently in digital literacy practices but also developing the ability to transform them actively and creatively;
- this term is close to, but not synonymous with: digital competence / digital skills.
Source
Based on American Library Association in Council of Europe, 2000.