Digital-Age Literacy

Literacy in its simplest form is the ability to read, write, speak, and listen, thus enabling an individual to both understand and express information and ideas effectively. Digital age literacy acknowledges the new skills that the digital age demands, as well as the new tools available to effectively understand and express information and ideas.  
Digital Age Literacy includes key competencies for consuming, creating, and communicating information and ideas.  It integrates ideas from information literacy, media literacy, visual literacy, and news literacy.

           Consume
  1. Locate relevant & meaningful content
  2. Analyze sources and evaluate the usefulness and credibility of content; derive meaning through the synthesis of multiple sources
  3. Employ strategies to navigate and derive meaning from content presented in various formats (e.g., website, multimedia, print sources)
  4. Interpret bias (e.g., advertising, propaganda, political) that is amplified by technology-use and algorithms, such as echo chambers, filter bubbles, and circular reporting
  5. Recognize personal biases (e.g., confirmation, perception); use strategies that actively challenge bias

    Create
  6. Identify an audience and select an appropriate medium to express content (e.g., text-based narrative, recording, infographic, multimedia)
  7. Clearly convey content using appropriate conventions, vocabulary, tone and voice for the audience and medium
  8. Create products that express information and ideas using a variety of digital and non-digital tools; acknowledge original sources
  9. Curate information, artifacts, and other digital content into useful collections

    Communicate
  10. Select a platform to share information and ideas (e.g., topic-specific forum, blog, podcast, video clearinghouse)
  11. Participate in conversations using a variety of digital and non-digital tools
  12. Share perspective and seek to understand the perspectives of others in digital and non-digital spaces
  13. Respond to diverse perspectives effectively and respectfully
  14. Share information and ideas responsibly