CHAPTER 1 "21st Century Education Framework and Digital Literacy for Teacher Education"

21st Century Education Framework and Digital Literacy for Teacher Education

How important is technology in today's life? 

Why do we need to learn technology? 

So, let's discuss why we should learn technology. 

The era is increasingly advanced and certainly affects the progress of technology which will also affect the pattern of human life.So, why technology is important in our daily life. It is an essential tools that we cannot avoid, it plays an important part in the majority of our lives Technology essentially harnesses the tools, technologies, and strategies used to help us solve problems and simply make our lives better and easier to live in some way. and one of them is in the world of education which makes learning easier and more efficient. Technology, which brings together tools to promote development, use and information exchange, has as its main objective of making tasks easier and the solving of many problems. Why is digital literacy important for 21st century teachers and learners?

Digital literacy is crucial to helping students' lifelong learners. It helps them essential life skills as well as academic skills. They help students use critical thinking skills to evaluate the quality of digital sources and information,which in turn help students communicate better. So, Digital literacy is the ability to use digital technplogy.  Therefore in this century students are trained to train digital literacy skills among them as follows :

• Critical-thinking and evaluation
• Collaboration
• Creativity
• Communication and etiquette
• Finding and selecting information
• Digital culture
• Online safety skills
• Functional skills.

So, the positive impact of technology on society has brought change and helped us to reach new heights that have never before been conceived of. Now it is undeniable that life and technology are two things that must go hand in hand and in balance.