Research Topic Interest

Digital Literacy in the 21^st century

Digital Literacy has different types of categories that helps you move to the next step to become digital literate. Digital literacy is something that is very important. It is very useful for children, students, adolescence, adults and even to the elderly. The use of technology is everywhere and is use by many people. Nowadays it is crucial to be digital literate, snice we are living in the world of digital era. Digital literacy has to start from somewhere, my first research topic of interest discusses how emergent literacy works in a close relation to the development of digital literacy. Emergent Literacy and Emergent Digital Literacy Development may interact with improvements in one domain that may promote development in the other (Neumann et al., 2016, p. 474). The result shows emergent literacy helps children gain knowledge of digital skills and become proficient in conventional literacy, but it also mentions when children are introduced to digital text at a young age and become proficient in digital literacy. (Neumann et al., 2016, p. 472). 

In my opinion I believe that emergent literacy helps develop digital literacy and digital skills. Digital literacy is like puzzle, once all the pieces are put together it creates a picture on how it all works with each other.

                                               Reference  

Neumann, M. M., Finger, G., & Neumann, D. L. (2017). A Conceptual Framework for Emergent Digital Literacy. Early Childhood Education Journal, 45(4), 471479.

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