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During the zoom meeting, our group discussed about the parts we could potentially add into the Wikipedia page. Based on the bibliography I found prior to our group meeting, I decided I could be adding more information into the 21st-century skills part in the Wikipedia page. We also discussed about organizing the bibliography part of our page after we've done with our individual parts.

Under 21st-century skills[edit]

Main article: 21st century skills

Digital literacy requires certain skill sets that are interdisciplinary in nature. Warschauer and Matuchniak (2010) list three skill sets, or 21st century skills, that individuals need to master in order to be digitally literate: information, media, and technology; learning and innovation skills; and life and career skills.[vague]. Aviram et al. assert that order to be competent in Life and Career Skills, it is also necessary to be able to exercise flexibility and adaptability, initiative and self-direction, social and cross-cultural skills, productivity and accountability, leadership and responsibility. Digital literacy is composed of different literacies, because of this fact there is no need to search for similarities and differences. Some of these literacies are media literacy and information literacy. '''Examples of media and information literacy could be seen by the use of Twitter and Powerpoint in the 21st-century digital literacy world. The “micro-blogging” tool of Twitter represents one of the new skills entering into 21st-century digital literacy. Powerpoint, being a new genre derive from the 21st-century.'''

Aviram & Eshet-Alkalai contend that there are five types of literacies that are encompassed in the umbrella term that is digital literacy.

1.     Photo-visual literacy: the ability to read and deduce information from visuals.

2.     Reproduction literacy: the ability to use digital technology to create a new piece of work or combine existing pieces of work together to make it your own.

3.     Branching literacy: the ability to successfully navigate in the non-linear medium of digital space.

4.     Information literacy: the ability to search, locate, assess and critically evaluate information found on the web and on-shelf in libraries.

5.     Socio-emotional literacy: the social and emotional aspects of being present online, whether it may be through socializing, and collaborating, or simply consuming content.[citation needed]