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IT literacy Aim Ability to construct tests of IT literacy Ability to analyse descriptions of IT literacy Analyse an IT literacy test in Assignment 5 Core literature • Textbook Chapter 11 Auxiliary literature • Committee on IT Literacy (1999) Being Fluent with Information Technology • Calvani et.al. (2012) Are young generations in secondary school digitally competent? A study on Italian teenagers 1 Computer literacy • Computer literacy is the knowledge and ability to use computers and technology efficiently • Wikipedia article • Dutch found to be most computer literate in world – Survey of habits in 17 nations – 82 percent of Dutch residents said they used a computer at least occasionally at home or at work – 72 percent used the Internet • International Herald Tribune 2 Digital literacy Lankshear Knobel (2006) a) Typical conceptions – «the ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide variety of sources when it is presented via computers» and, particularly, through the medium of the Internet b) Standardized operationalizations tasks, performances, demonstrations of skilIs – click on all the «output devices» from a list containing items like joystick, monitor, speakers, keyboard, etc. – the ability to use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate, and communicate information – Create: The ability to generate information by adapting, applying, designing or inventing information in ICT environments. – Communicate: The ability to communicate information properly in its context of use for ICT environments. This includes