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2019 » Papers » Volume 3 » Extend Centre’s Resources for Increasing General Digital Literacy 1. EXTEND CENTRE’S RESOURCES FOR INCREASING GENERAL DIGITAL LITERACY Authors: Zerkina Natalya, Lazarou Elisabeth, Kisel Olesia, Lomakina Yekaterina Volume 3 | DOI: 10.12753/2066-026X-19-156 | Pages: 140-145 | Download PDF | Abstract
The era of powerful technology progress raises the question of digital literacy of population. The lack of knowledge and basic skills within the majority of potential users among common people slows down the development of the IT industry as whole as far as their products are focused on consumers. It is impossible to educate IT specialists, engineers or any other highly qualified professionals without paying appropriate attention to digital literacy of population. Due to "mass start" of daily IT usage among the population of different age group it comes to influence the informational sphere as well as the learning process as it is the significant part of the education. So there appears a special category of users that may be called as a digital-mass-consumer-user. This category of users is mainly oriented on consuming digital services but is not aware of digital competence. Thus, while developing modern consumer-oriented technologies, it is necessary to improve the level of general public's digital literacy. Extend Centres could conduct such type of courses for general public. The aim of the article is to study the digital literacy as a significant component for modern education process and in particular for specialists in engineering. There were used the method of analysis, interview survey and comparison. Special attention is given to digital etiquette and digital security. These components of digital literacy acquire far too much concern while digital literacy as a phenomenon of both modern digital and social environments affects industrial, economical, social and other areas of life. | Keywords
EXTEND Center, Digital etiquette, Digital literacy, IT industry. |
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