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Cyber Literacy or Digital Literacy_Module7

This module emphasizes the importance of digital literacy in 21st-century education, highlighting how technology can enhance learning experiences for students. Digital literacy encompasses the skills needed to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using digital technologies. Teachers must understand and teach these skills to prepare students for effective communication and information access in a digital world.

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Cyber Literacy or Digital Literacy_Module7

This module emphasizes the importance of digital literacy in 21st-century education, highlighting how technology can enhance learning experiences for students. Digital literacy encompasses the skills needed to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using digital technologies. Teachers must understand and teach these skills to prepare students for effective communication and information access in a digital world.

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Cyber Literacy/Digital Literacy

MODULE 7
Introducti
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In the 21st century learning and teaching, technology in
education makes a difference for student learning and
necessitates teachers to innovate ways to use technology in
teaching. Through effective use, technology can transform
classroom learning activities, enhance idea development
and individual expression, promote peer collaboration and
problem solving, and foster students’ unique learning
styles. This module tackles the different topics on cyber or
digital literacy which will help pre-service teachers (PSTs)
understand better the importance of technology in
education in the 21st century.
1. Technology in the Classroom:
What is Digital Literacy?
• Technology provides instant
accessibility to information, which is
why its presence in the classroom is so
vital. Smart phones, computers, and
tablets are already an omnipresent
element of everyday life for students
and teachers alike. It’s only natural that
the use of technological devices in the
classroom are explored to create
meaningful learning experiences for
students of all ages.
1. Technology in the Classroom:
What is Digital Literacy?

• Integration of technology in
education simply refers to the
use of technology to enhance
the student learning experience.
On September 1, 2021
• Digital literacy means having the skills
you need to live, learn, and work in a
society where communication and access
to information is increasingly through
digital technologies like internet
platforms, social media, and mobile
devices.
On September 1, 2021
• Digital Literacy is the ability and skill to find,
evaluate, utilise, share, and create content
using information technologies and the
Internet.
• It differs from regular literacy that
is offline and involves reading, writing,
grammar and syntax.
• Digital Literacy may be about a person's
ability to read and write online or using
technology such as computers,
smartphones and Kindles, but it's also a
lot more than that. With the impact of
social media, Digital Literacy skills also
now includes a wide range of skills like
uploading content on YouTube to sharing
things on Facebook.
• Especially in the connected, online world we live in
today, there are some essential digital literacy skills
that we need to achieve our goals and live our day-to-
day lives.
• Digital literacy is an ever more important factor in
education from a young age. Digital literacy in
education, students must develop specific digital
literacy skills when reading and interacting with
online content that may contain embedded resources
such as hyperlinks, audio clips, graphs, or charts
that require students to make choices. Students today
are also being asked to go one step further to create,
collaborate, and share digital content and to do so
responsibly. For these reasons teachers need to
understand the importance of digital literacy skills for
students and teaching digital literacy in the
classroom.
Thank you
for Listening!

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