When I first read the article, what grabbed my attention the most was this quote “ Digital literacies are not solely about technical proficiency but about the issues, norms, and habits of mind surrounding technologies used for a particular purpose.” We are now in the 21^st century and all of our interactions are digitized; we do our assignments on our laptops, we spend our free time on social media and movie applications, we might even rely on social media or the internet to choose our outfits or take some decisions in our lives; but we do all of this without taking a step back, without thinking for one second what’s right and what’s wrong, when to rely on social media and when not to rely, when to take some stuff on social media into consideration and when to disregard what I see.

I might already know all what I read in the article and it might always be in the back of my mind, but reading the article lit the bulb. It made me see how social media became a daily ritual, I wake-up, I check Facebook or Instagram first thing when I open my eyes and I think that most people nowadays do that; But I try as much as I can to think for a while before sharing my life on social media because of this: “the risks of placing their information online and give them choices of how much personal information to reveal?”, but I think it is very easy to fall in the social media pit and that’s why awareness is very important and I totally agree with the article; that teaching digital literacy is an important issue.

I am confident and familiar with using technologies in general; when it comes to research and finding information, I am able to do that and use good searching tools. I might be good with the creative and innovative tools, but I don’t have an extensive knowledge with multimedia and editing tool and I don’t mind learning more.

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

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