Digital Age Literacies

• Computer Literacy -Involves knowing how to use the computer independently-both its software hardware components
• Technological Literacy -Also about the use of computers but emphasize emerging technologies that are products of human innovation
• Visual Literacy -was first defined by Jhon Debes in 1969. A group of vision-competencies a human being can develop by seeing and at the same time having and integrating other sensory experiences
• News Literacy -Appreciating,understanding, and veryfying the reliability and credibility of information that comes from a news source
• Information Literacy -Is a set of skills and competencies that enable people to make informed judgements and decisions on the type of information they need, where to acces it, and how they will use it to make decision
• Civitas in Greek Word meaning Citizen
• Environmental Literacy -The ability to recognize that an individual's choice or actions have implications for the environment and the knowledge to identify the most efficient and, more importantly, sustainable solution to a problem
• Gender Literacy -Helping people to see that sex assigned birth doesn't define your gender identity, gender expression, or your sexual orientation
• Financial Literacy -Individual's capacity to manage inflows and outflows of money
• Multicultural Literacy -Best understood uding the lens of difference