Promoting Digital Literacy

In an age where your success stems from your ability to use a computer efficiently, digital literacy is an important asset. Daniel Poynter understands this and he is trying to improve and promote digital literacy across high schools nationwide through his “Digital Literacy Contest”. This contest tests people’s abilities to pull information from the internet by asking them challenging questions that require proficient use of computers to answer. Poynter is directing his contest towards high school students because they are the next generation to go into the business world and it is imperative that they be able to do research and use the Internet efficiently. Lauren Kelleher, the author of this article, must agree with him because she deemed this issue important enough to write about. The world is changing whether we want it to or not and people out there like Daniel Poynter are trying to see to it that we are prepared for it.