The ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet requires a blend of both traditional and digital literacy skills. This fusion of digital and traditional literacies should be no surprise, as the core competencies for both draw on critical literacy skills. The very same skills that encourage individuals to understand and question the attitudes, values, and beliefs of written texts, visual applications, and spoken words.

Today’s networked literacy experiences are taking down the walls of the classroom and  leading our students toward an understanding of global literacy. As educators, we prepare students by continually teaching them to be powerful consumers and producers of media. After all, the purpose of including digital literacy into our students’ learning experience is to not only to deepen student engagement, but also to help students develop habits of inquiry and skills of expression so they can become critical thinkers and effective communicators in today’s world.