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Today’s Two Important Skills: Digital Literacy and Critical Thinking

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Digital literacy of students and their skills to use the new technologies effectively and efficiently both for their learning and their future career is the concern of our age since the fast and vast information makes people adapt themselves to continuously changing life.

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  1. School of Foreign Languages, Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Tekirdağ, Turkey

    Semahat Aysu

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  1. Anafatalar Kampusu Eğitim, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Türkiye

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  2. Eğitim Fakültesi, Mersin University, Mersin, Türkiye

    Ömer Gökhan Ulum

  3. Eğitim Fakültesi, Inonu University, Battalgazi/Malatya, Türkiye

    Gülten Genç

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Aysu, S. (2023). Today’s Two Important Skills: Digital Literacy and Critical Thinking. In: Köksal, D., Ulum, Ö.G., Genç, G. (eds) Undividing Digital Divide. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25006-4_4

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