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TopThe Effects Of Digital Literacy In The Society
Literacy in a wide sense is a basic principle of any educational system. Today, the most important areas to perform literacy are the family, the school and the communication media. Digital literacy is just a part of the general literacy. As long as training actions are taking place for the development of literacy, they should also be considered for digital literacy. In this sense we define digital literacy as a group of training actions driven to the development of technical, social and ethical abilities related to the use of information and communication technologies, organized by Institutions, Associations, NGOs, and so forth (Travieso & Planella, 2008, p. 3).
The digital literacy requires of a degree of organization and systematization that is assumed by the educational Institutions, specially the school. However it should be also provided in an informal way by the family and by the communication media. As we have mentioned before, it is just a part of the general literacy in its multiple aspects.
Digital literacy must not only be provided by technologists since literacy is not only provided by linguistics, writers or book editors. In this sense, two kind of basic actions should be provided,
✓ Teachers working on the compulsory education in the first years of life should be trained in the possibilities and use of information and communication technologies
✓ Older persons should be permanently trained in information and communication technologies.