Core 1, Part 1

With my experience growing up with digital literacy I would say I’m pretty strong at computer skills than the norm. I’m skilled more with the functional literacy side such as computer programs and the functions of day to day digital toys, as far as knowing how things work and the behind the scenes that is not my forte. If you were to ask me to set up a Nintendo or to fix anything on a computer I would be completely lost. I have more knowledge in the arts or the faces of the digital programs such as photoshop and facebook, or even how to function every aspect of a digital camera or cell phone. At this point I am mainly content with my skills but If I was to improve on anything it would be to better understand how things work and more of the Critical literacy skills.
Another thing I’ve seen with my skills is that I’m better with the social types of digital accessories. Such as cell phones, fun internet programs, internet games, cameras, and other types of things that are mainly used for fun. My weaker points are the more complex software because I have less of a reason to use it such as Microsoft excel and video games. I would mainly put myself in the category of Functional Literacy because I am a user of technology. I don’t invent anything, I just use these digital programs as tools or for fun.

Google Scholar Site

My articles name was Cyber Psychology and Behavior. This article is talking about how digital literacy is known as the skills needed in using digital devices. It talks about how certain skills are being used and how in their experiments younger peoples skills are different from the older crowd therefore giving digital designing companies more to think about when it comes to making more user friendly products. It is mostly to inform you about how digital literacy skills are becoming more of a necessity. While also sort of researching why skills very with ages. The people who are conducting the research are arguing to the population as well as the digital making companies that not everyone is on the same level and that digital literacy has become more complex requiring more skills. This argument makes claims by saying that there are five major digital skills, and that elders posse certain ones and younger kids posse the others, which may not necessarily be correct. So therefore this argument is going off of experiment type background and therefore may not be entirely correct.