Quali “competenze digitali”?

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present an updated framework of the “digital literacy” notion and content. The digital literacy origins date back to 1997: this paper presents the subsequent developments of the word and particularly the context elements that today make the digital literacy topical and urgent. We consider digital literacy as a set of “soft-skills” and “life-skills”. This paper examines the digital literacy specific contents, starting from three institutional reports: the DigComp (proposed by the European Commission in 2017), the EDCL Foundation model (2015), and a recent Unesco-IITE paper (2011). Finally, we propose, through some thematic clusters, an analytic comparison of Digital literacy and Information literacy typical skills. The goal is to propose a collaboration and a hybridization between librarians and other knowledge workers.