I always enjoy reading Meg St-Esprit‘s work, and contributing is an honor! Here she lays out an excellent roadmap for the different ways to approach Digital Literacy.

Here’s a sample:

“Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, organize, create and communicate information,” defines Jenkins. She adds that many young children will only focus on the first three skills before learning to create and communicate online as teens, but the early skills lay the foundation for more advanced tasks.

Jenkins spends hours watching and reviewing YouTube videos so that parents don’t have to, and says there is so much good to be found on the internet — but that good is best accessed by kids with strong digital literacy skills. “Ultimately, the internet is a mystery,” she explains. “It’s easy to fall into complacency, which puts users of any age at risk.” 

Hope you enjoy!

Read more from me and media expert Author Devorah Heitner at this link, and follow more of St-Esprit’s work here.

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