--Originally published at Digital Identity
The word literacy refers to the ability to read, write and use arithmetic. However, technology has given literacy a deeper meaning. Digital literacy refers to the ability to use digital technology and tools to locate, evaluate, use and create information.
With that in mind, we should not only pay attention to our digital skills but also to our digital literacies. According to Maha Bali skills are about what we do and how we do it, while literacies are also about why we do it, when we do it and for whom we do it.
An example of this is:
Digital skills: Using facebook and knowing how to make a post.
Digital literacies: Using facebook because you have decided it is the adequate tool to publish what you are going to publish in that moment and you are reaching the people you want to reach.
