Extend Centre’s Resources for Increasing General Digital Literacy
Extend Centre’s Resources for Increasing General Digital Literacy

Summary/Abstract: The era of powerful technology progress raises the question of digital literacy. The lack of knowledge and basic skills within the majority of potential users among common people slows down the development of the IT industry as whole as far as it is focused on consumers. It is impossible to educate IT specialists, engineers or any other highly qualified professionals without paying appropriate attention to digital literacy. Due to mass start of daily IT usage among the population it comes to influence the informational sphere as well as the learning process as it is the significant part of the education. So there appears a special user’s category it is mass-user’s. This category of users is mainly oriented on digital consume but is not aware of digital competence that is the consumers whether common or professional are to be able to learn from digital etiquette to digital security. As for professional for example sphere the issue of digital literacy and its components acquire far too much concern as it affects the industrial, economical, social and other areas of life. The aim of the article is to study the digital literacy as a significant component for modern education process and in particular for specialists in engineering. There were used the method of analysis, interview survey and comparison.

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