Use
of technology is increase day by day because of the development of technology.
Technology is most essential tool for the modern society. Today’s
generation appears to engage with all things that are technology without any
effort at all. All the work are done with digitally. Digital technology related
with the ICT. So Digital literacy is an emerging concept. The digital literacy
refers to the literacy about the use of ICT and ICT tool in narrow sense. But
digital literacy is more about it.
Digital literacy should be understood to mean the basic skill
or ability to use a computer confidently, safely and effectively. If there is no digital literacy there will
be create the digital divide. In 21 century all citizens have
the literate about the digital. It may include the use of computer, internet,
and smart phone, and other multimedia.
Digital literacy can be defined as "the ability to use
digital technology, communications tools, and/or networks to access, manage,
integrate, evaluate, and create information in order to function in a knowledge
society" (Lemke, 2003).
The following
figure more explain about the digital literacy
Most
of the research found that the digital literacy have Five areas of digital competence were
identified and can be summarized as follows:
1)
Information :
The digital information can be identify digital
information, analysis and store and retrieve,
judging its relevance and purpose.
2)
Communication :
The digital information should be communicate and share as necessary through
the online tools.
3)
Content-creation:
There should be create the digital information
by using the application software. The creation information should have very
reliable and useful to the society.
4)
Safety :
The digital data have more secure than other physical data . There may use
different ways to protect the digital information.
5)
Problem
solving : If there will problems occurs in the ICT tools .
Problems solving capabilities is necessary.
Digital literacy is important to establishing your
presence in the modern world. Lacking the ability to use digital technologies
means that there are many things you simply cannot do or access. Possessing
digital literacy allows you to improve the efficiency, access to things,
fulfillment, and happiness in your life.
In today’s world it is a requirement to be digitally literate in order to be able to function in a capacity that enables one to be more successful whether it is at home, school, at our jobs or even looking for a job. Over the last few decades our environment has evolved into a digital environment. Being or becoming digitally literate is essential in being successful in this digital environment. Almost everything we do today requires some sort of digital knowledge or literacy. From surfing the internet to searching for a job to being able.
Research showed that the digital literacy rates in Nepal are a staggering 31 percent and Nepal is experiencing a recent increase in cybercrime because of the pandemic.
Together, the students created a wide range of innovative materials to help, including mobile applications, user documentation, instructional videos, and website prototypes that were designed to tackle cyberbullying and harassment among young girls in Nepal. These prototypes focused on empowering the rural population by enhancing digital literacy in post-pandemic Nepal.
Some of importance of digital literacy are as follows :
1)
Digital
literacy makes people to digital citizen.
2)
It
helps to more access about the information through internet.
3)
Digital
literacy save time and money for communicating and sharing the information.
4)
Collaboration
with the present world and experience it.
5)
Help
to increase self learning habit.
6) Digital literacy decrease the use of paper.
Reference
Gillen, J. and Barton, D. (2010). Digital Literacies: A Research Briefing by the Technology Enhanced Learning phase of the Learning and Teaching Research Programme. London, London Knowledge Lab
Lankshear, C., & Knobel, M. (Eds.). (2008). Digital literacies: Concepts, origins, and practices. New York.
Hobbs, Renne. (viewed October 1, 2011). Media Literacy as Literacy for the Information Age. Philadelphia, Pa: Temple University. (September 2008)
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