• Media literacy - is the ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, CREATE, and ACT using all forms of

communication. In its simplest terms, media literacy builds the foundation of traditional literacy and
offers new forms of reading and writing. Media literacy empowers people to be critical thinkers and
makers, effective communicators and active citizens.

Example: Social Media, Magazine and Newspaper, Television, Podcast, Blog post, News-related websites

• Information literacy - it empowers people in all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create
information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational and educational goal.

Example: Data, Resume, Online websites, Newspaper, Social media

• Technology literacy or technological literacy refers to the ability to use, manage, understand and
assess technology. It also refers to digital literacy where the user has the skills needed to use digital
devices such as computers or smartphones to access the internet. The user may use the internet to
discover, create, manage, review, and evaluate data using a set of digital platforms, including web
pages, magazines, websites, social media websites, among others.

Example: Computer, Smartphone, Tablet, Laptop

• Computer literacy - are talents, experiences, knowledge and skills that allow an individual to use digital
technologies productively. Due to the high rate of technology adoption, this is required to participate in
a broad range of economic, education and social opportunities. For example, most professions now
make extensive use of computers such that it is increasingly difficult to find work without basic
computer skills.

Example: Computing Concepts, Computing Hardware, Coding, Operating System, Applications.

• Digital literacy - means having the skills you need to live, learn, and work in a society where
communication and access to information is increasingly through digital technologies like internet
platforms, social media, and mobile devices.

Example: sending and receiving email, writing and publishing a blog, searching for information on a
topic, evaluating the credibility of a source, and watching videos online.
• Internet literacy - is the ability to use devices, such as smartphones or laptops, to access the internet.
It covers accessing websites and apps, navigating through them to access content and understanding, to
some extent, how and why someone published that content online. The content you access on a
website was put there by someone for a purpose, and the hyperlinks are chosen to direct you
somewhere specific.

Example: Communication, Internet data privacy, social media, Evaluating trustworthiness of online
sources

• Library literacy - refers to the acquisition of a range of skills relating to identification of and familiarity
with sources and information seeking processes, usually through formal bibliographic instruction and
informal user education. Libraries provide literacy resources for children, youth and adults at all
proficiency levels, thereby making an enormous contribution to supporting a reading culture and the
creation of a literate society.

Example: Books information

• News literacy - is a part of media literacy and includes having the critical thinking skills for evaluating
or judging/analyzing the reliability and credibility of news sources and new forms of information. News
literacy can also help us recognize the difference between fact and rumor, news and advertising, news
and opinion, and bias and fairness.