Internet access drives up digital literacy

It appears that kiwi kids are better prepared than their international counterparts when it comes to addressing the 21st Century workplace.

• Access to computers at home,
• Having higher scores in digital-reading,
• Browsing the internet for fun,
• And email, chatting online and downloading music, films, games or software.

All these culminate in a higher level of digital literacy for New Zealand students.

"Lynne Whitney, a senior research manager at the Ministry of Education, said Kiwi students did well in both kinds of reading but the overall average digital scores were significantly higher than the print ones."

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I wonder, though how those statistics will play out in the workplace. Perhaps we need to revisit those 15-year olds five years from now to see what has become of those with ‘quality’ digital literacy.




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