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Lacey Destiny Library Catalog

 

Digital Literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.

Qualities of a Digitally Literate Person

• Possesses the variety of skills, cognitive and technical, required to find, understand, evaluate, create, and communicate digital information in a wide variety of formats. 
• Able to use diverse technologies appropriately and effectively to search for and retrieve information, interpret search results, and judge the quality of the information retrieved.
• Understands the relationships among technology, lifelong learning, personal privacy, and appropriate stewardship of information.
• Uses these skills and the appropriate technologies to communicate and collaborate with peers, colleagues, family, and on occasion the public.
• Uses these skills to participate actively in civic society and contribute to a vibrant, informed, and engaged community.

 

Lacey Elementary "I Can" Statements for the Eight Elements of Digital Literacy

Cultural

Requires technology use in different contexts and awareness of the values and practices specific to varying contexts

• I can easily move between digital environments and contexts: personal, social and educational.

Cognitive

Enables mastery of the use of technological tools, software, and platforms

• I can master the use of a variety of technological tools, software and platforms.

Constructive

Requires reusing and remixing existing resources depending on need, or possibly adapting them into new resources

• I can reuse, adapt and remix resources depending on my need and possibly making them into new resources.

Communicative

Requires awareness of different communication devices that are both digital and mobile

• I can use different communication devices that are digital and mobile.

Confidence

Places emphasis on gaining competence with digital technologies and the ability to create an environment for practicing skills and self-learning

• I can gain competence with digital technologies and practice both inside and outside of the classroom.

Creative

Creates new data in digital environments while taking risks, developing skills, and producing new things

• I will create new data and things with my digital learning while taking risks and developing skills.

Critical

Requires the digital learner to develop various perspectives while actively taking different circumstances into account

• I can be aware of my audience while communicating digitally, be critical of what I read online, and attentive to my own safety.

Civic

Develops and helps acquire the concepts of democracy and global citizenship as individuals become participants in society

• I can be a positive part of online communities and use the same rules and guidelines for being a positive citizen of my classroom and school.