More important than digital literacy is to promite literacy. Most people who attended school are, regardless of the country, functionally illiterate. Furthermore, if we who are researchers get dizzy with the amount of information, imagine an average (in terms of academic achievements) citizen...

Illiteracy kills more than any disease.

Illiteracy makes people powerless before "leaders" who pretend to explain matters to them and, thus, play the role of saviors.

Its importance lies in the growth of scientific knowledge in all parts of the world, since it allows for greater interaction and exchange among the scientific community.

More important than digital literacy is to promite literacy. Most people who attended school are, regardless of the country, functionally illiterate. Furthermore, if we who are researchers get dizzy with the amount of information, imagine an average (in terms of academic achievements) citizen...

Illiteracy kills more than any disease.

Illiteracy makes people powerless before "leaders" who pretend to explain matters to them and, thus, play the role of saviors.

Hello Sir,

Looking to the current scenario of Pandamic we should be prepared for any of such occurance in future. Digital Literacy enable people to work from their home and also provide them a sense of protection and empowerment. All service providers like grocers, vegetables and fruits venders, electricians, teachers, health care providers and so on, are dealing with people through Internet. Therefore, it becomes necessary to make people digitally literate.

Dear Airil Haimi Mohd Adnan , I think this is a very important discussion and I agree with Leena Chauhan , Nikolaos Andreopoulos and Wilmer Lopez . Considering the context we were in at the time of the pandemic, digital and media literacy is very necessary and in the future it will be even more important so that if we had the need for isolation again we would be more prepared. But also so that the general population has a training in critical thinking for the use of digital and media resources in order to become less vulnerable to any type of manipulation Even with the possibility of developing the vaccine against covid-19, would everyone use and have access? We have many people from the anti-vaccine movement using social media to promote disinformation, and spread hate speech and lies. In this sense, digital and media literacy should be accessible to all.

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Thank you so much Wilmer Lopez , Nikolaos Andreopoulos , Leena Chauhan and Agnaldo Arroio for your ideas. We in Malaysia are also trying to push ahead with digital literacy education as part of our ongoing response to this global pandemic. Wishing health and happiness to all of you :-)

I agree with you. It is still surprising how a high degree of digital illiteracy persists at the academic level, which maintains a limited level of academic development.

Actually, it is a fundamental factor to know in depth the digital tools and applications, because the digital teaching and learning is a world trend, the industrial design and the digital trade every day intensifies as time goes by, we can say that the digital era is imposed worldwide.

When it comes to citizenship, critical digital literacy is one of the few things we can do to combat fascism on the web. It will be crucial as "deep fake" videos become more sophisticated.

We believe it is so critical, that our college created a digital literacy chart of goals and objectives for students AND faculty to know and adopt for their departments and majors.

Thank you ever so much Teresa Tsuji , Wilmer Lopez , James Wittebols and Sara Garner for your insights. I am especially interested with the comment made by James and what is happening in Sara's college. Right now, I am, in fact, preparing a series of 'explainer videos' for our 1st semester diploma and degree student to introduce them to digital literacy skills.

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I think digital Literacy is crucial to survive in this world, not withstanding the current pandemic. There is a vast amount of digital information but not all could be considered authentic so the ability to decipher fake from authentic is crucial as well.

As digital technologies have emerged as a crucial element of our environment including the social, economic and cultural spheres the need for all citizens to be “digitally literate” is clear. Just as functional textual literacy empowers the individual as worker, learner and citizen so digital literacy becomes similarly important in what Castells refers to as ‘network society’. Whilst most transnational organisations and individual nations have come to see ‘digital literacy’ as an essential element in the construction of human capital the general notion of ‘digital literacy’ remains problematic. A particular challenge to fostering exploratory dialogue about the concept is the diversity and interconnectedness of associated concepts. If we construct a conceptual mapping surrounding the idea of ‘digital literacy’ we immediately encounter such terms as ‘digital competency’, ‘digital capability’, ‘computer literacy’, ‘media literacy’, ‘data and information literacy’ etc. As such, any exploration, of the topic would first require the generation of working definitions of a number of terms. On seeking to construct such definitions we encounter the second problem related to the rapid development of the socio-technical environment. The definition of ‘digital literacy’ etc. needs to be grounded in the relationship between society, the individual and the technological environment. We might say that the notion of ‘digital literacy’ is formed at the boundary between material and adaptive cultures. Specifically any definition of value will need to reference three things. Firstly the material technology itself, the ‘boxes and wires’, software and networks which are the technology itself. Secondly the society, institutions, processes, power structures etc. which have both shaped and are shaped by the material technology. Thirdly it must be situated between the material technology and the social and cultural linking both together – the field we refer to as social informatics. Establishing a meaningful but practical definition of ‘digital literacy’ is first complex due to the diffuse and broad elements above but also challenging as the relationship above is a highly dynamic system. The conceptual elements we use to construct our definition would be changing with developments in the material technological sphere and the changing socio-technical network which rests upon it. In this way the definition of ‘digital literacy’ would be constantly needing revision and be behind the current context as described by Ogburn’s idea of ‘cultural lag’. An alternative approach to exploring the nature and importance of ‘digital literacy’ is to undertake a thematic analysis of a range of frameworks constructed to address this need. Such frameworks might include those created for citizens e.g. The EU digital competency framework 2.0, the JISC digital literacy framework for learners, the UK Government’s ‘Essential digital skills’ framework focussed mainly on employment and the school curriculum for various nations. An analysis of these frameworks gives a useful insight into the perceived nature and purpose of digital literacy in a variety of contexts.

Dear Airil Haimi Mohd Adnan In Brazil there are almost 170 thousand deaths that are victims of Covid-19, and now there are signs of a second wave. As we have a president who denies the value of Science and Education, the situation could get worse and we will necessarily depend on remote activities in education for a long time until we have the vaccines. Therefore, enabling the development of digital, media and informational competences and skills will be vital !!! I agree with the contributions, as they are crucial as said by Teresa Tsuji , James Wittebols , Sara Garner , Rajiv Kumar Gupta , Segarani Naidoo , Adrian Mee