MS. MCCARTHY

Digital literacies have become one of the most talked about concepts in education, and also includes a diverse discussion to what these skills mean to the future of education. Digital literacy take into consideration the need to read and write but also includes transferring these skills to a digital environment to research, navigating information and understand the power of digital media. These literacies also leverage online support systems of feedback and audience, along with the basic technical skills needed to operate within these digital systems. Collective intelligence builds off of these acquired digital skills. In the past 10 years collective intelligence was confined to closely prescribed individual environments (work, school, and home), to the present where the scope of your resources can be dictated to individual preference and the desire to expand one's own personal/professional knowledge base. These intelligences can be elaborated, expanded, and challenged by other outside..