1. Photo-Visual LiteracyThey are the use of emotions, graphs, signs, and pictures to communicate online. For business in general, photo literacy in the business world it can help us positvely communicate with employers and co-workers. And people can also express themselves clearly with others who can relate through work matters. For example graphs can be used in a business enviroment to express the statistics. This is very important because we can see how well the business is holding up.
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2. Reproduction Literacy
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Reproduction literacy is when a previous idea is taken and reformed to display you own opinion. As an example we used mona lisa to demostrate the use of reproduction literacy.This is imporant because new ideas and creation can be formed and make the web more personal to you.Business in general can use reproduction literacy help businesses have their own identity and be differiated from others. For communication in the business world, it can help to demostrate innovation and new ideas.
3. Lateral Multidirectional Literacy
Lateral literacy is the ability to access information from hypermedia enviroments. This skill helps the individual to think in a non-linear way, so instead of following and gathering
information from one particular website, the user approaches the web to navigate in a abroad way as opposed to limiting his/hers research to one place.Performing this task is called lateral mutidirectional. In aquiring this skill businesses can multi-task when reseaching for valuable information,thus implemting it into their research. Accessing information from different sources to others, can help contribute ideas and communicate in a more informative way.
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4. Information Literacy
Information literacy is about applying critical thinking into what information is read. This literacy acts as a filter to identify false,irrelevant or biased information and avoids its penetration into the learner's cognition (Yoram-Eshet,2009). With different kinds of information available in cyberspace, one must be aware that not everthing people will write about is truthful or correct. The ability to do this helps business in general to put on their critical thinking caps when researching or developing information for their projects.Re-examining what is found and read encourages us to be more educated learners and the ability to take advantage of what information is gained.Businesses can therefore communicate reliable and trustable information through their projects to others.
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5. Socio-Emotional Literacy
Socio-emotional literacy is the ability to know right from wrong and bad from good. For example, on an internet chat line one cannot know if the person is truly being completely honest about themselves.By being cautious and analytical with what we can encounter over the internet,it reduces the vurnerablility of becoming victims to pedators and false information. We can surf the web smoothly by remembering to be discret with information we might put out and knowing not all can seems what it is. Socio-emotional literacy therefore can help businesses to protect themselves using steps to avoid mishaps in the world web. A good thing about understanding socio-emotional literacy and how to imply it into our daily communication, is by using forums or other various sharing cooperative forms that can help a business by keeping in touch or contributing ideas with people or their own stuff. But of course, we must always turn on our socio-emotional literacy button when doing these sort of things when working along the web.
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6. Moderation and Self-regulation Literacy
Business should have knowledge about moderation and self regulation literacy because they can't trust every website they visit. This literacy enables them to figure out what information is reliable and current.There should be an evaluation of any information gathered.Websites can communicate false information but its up to the reader using moderation and self regulation literacy to figure out if the information is actually reliable.This self knowledge helps businesses to be aware of risk involving information online and to communicate information to themselves that has quality and relevance.
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7. Quality Assurance Literacy
Quality assurance literacy give us the opportunity to create and present information in a higher quality,assuring the reader information is trustable and information is up to date.But at the sametime false information can be created to look good.For example information can be shown on a power point to provided the browser he/she is reading something that looks then assuming it must be good information.Businesses must then practice the 5 digital literacies and make sure the work of the individual can be taken as a reliable source.Quality assurance puts more of an effort for businesses to strongly work at communicating information wiser,challenging them to revise their to be taken seriously.
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