Defining Digital Fluency
Ursinus College library's definition of digital fluency as a teaching and learning goal.
Digital Fluency
Digital fluency is the process of understanding technology and its use. It goes beyond literacy: not just knowing how tools work, but knowing when and why to use them — including media literacy and the judgment to tell good information from bad in a crowded information environment.
— after Mike Ribble's 9 Elements of Digital Citizenship
Resources (4)
Digital Fluency — Organizational Competency
Digital fluency framed as a workforce competency.
Digital Fluency: Preparing Students
EDUCAUSE Review on preparing students to be digitally fluent creators.
Digital Citizenship Institute
The nonprofit that carries Ribble's framework into practice — lesson ideas, educator resources, and the community behind the 9 elements themselves.