The digital literacy in the 21st century

Abstract

Without a doubt, one of the main characteristics of the past thirty years is the exponential development and use of the new technologies in our daily life. Henceforth, the digital technologies and Social Medias start to occupy an important place in the educative and social politics in the modern societies. The postmodernity is already affected by our traces that we leave during our navigation on the Web. Since then, new concepts came into existence. Digital Literacy, Digital Citizenship and ICTs, all these appellations, among others, have started to occupy the hardcore of researches of specialists who are trying to analyze in depth the role and the place of the new technologies in our daily life. The purpose of this article is, first of all, to define the Digital Literacy and its changing and unstable nature. Then, our key-question we will to discuss the implications and uses of new technologies in contemporary teaching / learning processes, especially in these conditions due of Covid-19. Finally, we will demonstrate the impact of Digital Literacy on Digital Citizenship.