Digital Literacy

Kids and teenagers of this and future generations have something that previous generations never had: the ability to use technology to benefit their learning and influence their futures. Students can use the Internet to find more information on a subject than they could by going to the library and spending hours searching books. We use everything, including phones, computers, and the internet to help us with our education and as our social life.

The rate of information being put out into the world is increasing. For a lot of us this means that potential careers can be created or challenged instantly. Even what we learn in school may not be the same in a number of hours from the time we learn it. Digital literacy is very important because it allows us to find out what we need to know when we need to know it. Before textbooks for classes would only be put out every couple of years. Now, if a valuable piece of information comes up, we can just find it ourselves. Digital literacy will play a large part in my education in the future because what I will learn will have something to do with technology. My career will most likely end up being something in computers.

I think I have mastered digital literacy because I use it every single day. I use my cell phone, the internet to do my classes and just to waste time, I create images on my computer, and I rarely ever use a pencil anymore. I believe that most teenagers have since they all have either a MySpace or a Facebook and definitely a cell phone. Unfortunately, a lot of them don't use correct spelling and only use abbreviations, which carries over into their school work. However, I prefer to use capitals and actually spell things correctly, even when I'm not doing school work.

With technology advancing every hour, people will pretty much have no choice but use something digital. Being digital literate is something that everyone has to be in order to be able to get a job or go to school.