Digital literacy and critical reading

Digital literacy is an individual's ability to find, evaluate, and communicate information using digital devices or digital media platforms. It was first defined in a book published in 1997 by Paul Glister.

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The reading path

1. Read
   

   digital literacy · Wikipedia · 37 min read

   Among young people, digital literacy is high in its operational dimension: they rapidly move through hypertext, linked text that lets readers navigate between pages or sections, and are familiar with different kinds of online resources. However, their skills to critically evaluate online content show a deficit. Research published in 2012 found that the digital divide, as defined by access to information technology, does not exist amongst youth in the United States. However, poorer youth and those attending lower socioeconomic status schools are less likely to have opportunities to apply their digital literacy. Hypertext, one aspect of digital writing, uses traditional text and hyperlinks to invite readers to explore information in a non-linear fashion. Digital literacy includes critically examining the social and political impacts of information and communication technologies.

2. Watch
   

   Future Literacies: Crash Course Media Literacy #12 · YouTube · 8 min watch

   Rapid technological change raises the question of how media literacy will change. The course's skills can transfer to future media and technology.

3. Book
   

   The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains · Bookshop.org

   The Shallows by Nicholas Carr describes how the Internet encourages rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources.

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