Digital Literacy in ELT

Name: Mufarid
Class: 3C
Student ID: 2223220077

    Digital literacy is the ability to use digital technologies effectively and efficiently. It involves not only technical skills, but also critical thinking, communication, and creativity. Digital literacy can enhance the learning experience by providing access to a wide range of resources and tools that can be used to engage students and facilitate learning.

So, what is the importance of digital literacy:
1. Enhances student engagement
When teachers implement digital literacy in the classroom, it helps keep students engaged in their schoolwork.
2. Improves academic performance
Digital literacy can improve the academic performance of students by allowing them to create content such as presentations, videos and blog posts. 
3. Creates more opportunities for collaboration
Teachers incorporate collaboration in their lessons to engage students in the material and to help them have academic discussions with their peers. Digital literacy provides them with even more opportunities for collaboration.

Now that you know how important digital literacy is in language teaching, you should also master the four levels of digital literacy. So that you can better conceptualise your teaching in the face of today's digital world. Here are the four levels of digital literacy:

a) Basic Literacy Skills 
Basic literacy skills are reading, writing, understanding signs, and calculating numbers. However, in the context of online learning, this ability includes understanding the content on the Internet, reading and interpreting information, making the text as a contributor to Internet society, and sharing information through digital (online platforms) such as Facebook, blog and Twitter.

b) Background Information Knowledge Background information knowledge is basic information that exists as support to gain new information and to have a depth understanding of the knowledge that already exists. In online learning, background knowledge explains the ability to search for online information through online platforms such as Google, Wikipedia, and other search engines. Then, the user can select information related to online learning materials needs.

c) ICT skills 
ICT skills are the ability to make and gather digital content through technology tools. It is an essential skill in the digital literacy area and includes gathering information or knowledge. In online learning, this ability is how to combine documents or scientific articles as learning output to support online learning.

d) Attitudes and Perspectives of Users
The attitudes and perspectives of users are about the behavior, how to use digital technology and how to communicate information from other resources. In the context of online learning, this ability to quote resources from other information sources through citation rules

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