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A Bridge Across the Divide: The Role of Libraries in the Digital Skills Gap
The document discusses the role of libraries in addressing the digital skills gap. It notes that one third of Americans do not have broadband access at home and over 66 million Americans lack basic digital literacy skills. It argues that digital literacy involves more than just access to technology, and encompasses skills like finding, evaluating, creating, and communicating information using technology. The document advocates for libraries to play a key role in providing digital skills training and resources to help bridge the digital divide and develop citizens' digital literacy.
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- 1. A Bridge Acrossthe Divide: The Role of Libraries in the Digital Skills Gap South Central Library System, Wisconsin Bobbi Newman Librarianbyday.net @bobbinewman
- 2. - The DigitalDivide - Literacy What? - Resources
- 3. The 21st century is when everything changes. Andwe have to be ready. -Captain Jack Harkness, Torchwood
- 4. The future ishere it is just not evenly distributed -William Gibson
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- 6. One third of Americans donot have broadband at home
- 7. Access? • less than33% Americans • less than 50% Americans • less than 50% • less than 50% • less than 50% populations of the poorest of African Latinos of the elderly of rural
- 8. students with a computer & broadband athome have a 6 to 8 % graduation rate
- 9. Myth of theDigital Native
- 10. It is aboutfar more than access to technology, it is about using technology well.
- 11. We are floating (or sinking) ina sea of technology.
- 12. The illiterate ofthe 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler
- 13. We are exposedto more mediated messages in one day than our greatgrandparents were exposed to in a year. -Center for Media Literacy
- 14. of what gets posted on anygiven day is in public but not for the public. - Shirky, 2009
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- 16. 66 million Americans arewithout basic digital literacy skills -Usdan 2012
- 17. You keep using that word. Ido not think it means what you think it means.
- 20. Digital Literacy isthe ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills. -ALA Digital Literacy Taskforce (2011)
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