eStart, is an EU-funded project dedicated to the establishment of a Europe-wide network of experts and key stakeholders aimed at providing a communication base for understanding, supporting and promoting Digital Literacy in Primary & Lower Secondary Education across the EU. The first step in this project is the formation of a partnership to negotiate an operative, shared definition of digital l...

BACKGROUND As healthcare moves towards technology-driven population health management, clinicians must adopt complex digital platforms to access health information and document care. OBJECTIVES This study explored information literacy, a set of skills required to effectively navigate population health information systems, among primary care providers in one Veterans' Affairs (VA) medical cent...

purpose – this paper aims to describe the role of public libraries in bridging the digital divide. the paper firstly reviews the existing literature body in this area and then suggests a number of practical solutions. digital divide is a concept which appears in the area of information and communication technology (ict) since 1990 and refers to the existing inequality in accessing to ict among ...

The emerging importance of Second Language (L2) Digital Literacy within English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Korea is becoming apparent. This is likely to evolve to where L2 Digital Literacy becomes regarded as the most critical component of overall L2 English Literacy. Computer-based Internet-hosted Learning Management Systems (LMS) are rapidly being adopted worldwide for distance education,...

Introducing new digital literacies into classroom settings is an important and challenging task, and one that is encouraged by both policy-makers and educators. This paper draws on a case study of a 3D virtual world which aimed to engage and motivate primary school children in an immersive and literacy-rich on-line experience. Planning decisions, early experimentation and the experience of avat...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Plato Revisited: Learning Through Listening in the Digital World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 How New Technologies Are Changing Our View of What Listening Is . . . . . . . . . . . 2 How New Technologies Are Changing the Relationship Between Literacy and Listening 6 How New Technologies Are Changing What a...