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Numeracy involves skills that are sometimes not adequately learnt in the classroom – the
ability to use numbers and solve problems in real life.
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Critical thinking
Critical thinking refers to the ability to analyze information objectively and make a
reasoned judgment. Critical thinking involves the evaluation of sources such as data, facts,
observable phenomenon, and research findings. Good critical thinkers can draw reasonable
conclusions from a set of information and discriminate between useful and less useful details
to solve a problem or make a decision.
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Media literacy
Media literacy is about helping people become competent, critical and literate in all media
forms so that they control the interpretation of what they see or hear rather than letting the
interpretation control them. It is the ability to identify different types of media and understand
the messages they're sending. It enables us to communicate in a right and fast way both for
people around and also the employees. Therefore media literacy is a new term used for
people in employment to feel good in terms of their career and to use their abilities at his
work. It means to be able to use the media according to our needs, interpreting it correctly,
analyzing that information, making the employer’s job easier. The word "literacy" usually
describes the ability to read and write. Media Literacy encompasses the practices that allow
people to access, critically evaluate, and create media so that people get advantage of the
media interdisciplinary, there are the four focus of media literacy. It also requires using the
technology and the internet with accuracy and influence and also picking and using the digital
components of the modern era. Media Literacy is the way people interpret what they face in
their lives via TV, newspaper, social media or any other sources. This is a process in which
the information can be useful or harmful according to their usage.
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Digital skills
Digital skills are defined as a range of abilities to use digital devices, communication
applications, and networks to access and manage information. They enable people to create
and share digital content, communicate and collaborate, and solve problems for effective and
creative self-fulfillment in life, learning, work, and social activities at large.
Entry-level digital skills, meaning basic functional skills required to make basic use of
digital devices and online applications, are widely considered a critical component of a new
set of literacy skills in the digital era, with traditional reading, writing, and numeracy skills.
At the advanced spectrum of digital skills are the higher-level abilities that allow users to
make use of digital technologies in empowering and transformative ways such as professions
in ICT. Major digital transformations such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, big
data analytics, change skills requirements and, in turn, impact capacity building and skills
development for the 21st century digital economy.