Digital Literacy Articles/Blog Posts

In this ultimate guide, TechBoomers.com gives you a complete breakdown of digital literacy.

This subject is of increasing importance, and TechBoomers.com wants you to be fully in the know. Read on and learn more about the impact of the digital divide.

If you don’t want to fall behind, you need to be proactive in your learning of digital technologies. Think of learning digital literacy as an opportunity for learning how to make your life easier, rather than something you need to struggle to keep up with.

Check out this list of 32 of the best digital literacy websites. These websites are 100% free to use!

Digital competence is the ability to not only understand and make use of digital technologies and systems, but also to possess the confidence to use them creatively, critically and without assistance.

Possessing digital skills is so important in today’s modern world, having digital skills is essential, both for your personal life, and in the workplace.

Obtaining basic digital skills around the house will be the backbone of your ability to integrate them into other aspects of your life.

To help you better understand the world of digital skills, here are 14 articles you should read right away! They are sorted into easy categories so whether you’re looking for information on digital literacy in the classroom, the workplace, the home or anywhere else, these are great posts to get started with.

If you want to learn how to improve your digital literacy skills, here is the solution for you. This article outlines a list of the 8 best sites for free online learning.

Digital literacy programs are educational sessions that help to train those with the inability to make use of digital technologies and the internet independently. They teach digital skills that can be applied to the user’s life, making tasks easier, faster and safer.

Here are seven simple steps to creating your own digital literacy curriculum. It’s not as challenging as you may think to introduce digital literacy across the curriculum you currently teach.

This article explains the differences between teaching these skills in the classroom environment, teaching them to improve job performance and teaching to help the community.

Since the late 1990s, inequalities in tech adoption have been characterized as the “digital divide,” and the focus has been mainly on the binary “haves versus have nots.” However, there has recently been a pivot in the technology adoption discussion that looks at people’s preparedness, such as their digital skills and their trust in technology, which may influence their use of digital tools separate from their access to them. The term often used to capture these factors is “digital readiness.”

Americans fall along a spectrum of preparedness when it comes to using tech tools to pursue learning online and many are not eager or ready to take the plunge.

When it comes to the right amount and type of screen time, there seem to be more questions than answers. Check out this article from Ed Surge to explore this important issue.

This study from researchers at Purdue University attempts to create a broader understanding of digital readiness through the development of a digital readiness index (DRI) score.

A written and visual resource, created by the online Master of Library and Information Science program at University of Denver's Morgridge College of Education, that delves into computer and internet access throughout the United States and the role of libraries in providing the access and skills needed to bridge the gap between information and access.