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Mapping internet literacy skills of digital natives: A developing country perspective
Over the last three decades, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have changed the world in all walks of life. It has not only influenced the ways of human communication but also changed the way of learning. However, to utilize the facility of the Internet in effective manners, people n...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8057616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33878124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249495 |
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author | Soroya, Saira Hanif Ahmad, Abdus Sattar Ahmad, Shakil Soroya, Muhammad Shahid |
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description | Over the last three decades, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have changed the world in all walks of life. It has not only influenced the ways of human communication but also changed the way of learning. However, to utilize the facility of the Internet in effective manners, people need a certain set of skills called “Internet Literacy Skills”. The purpose of the study was to explore the level of Internet literacy skills of Undergraduate first-year students (Digital Natives) of the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. The study is quantitative, and data were gathered through questionnaires. A total of 180 students from three disciplines i.e. Pure Sciences, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities were approached for the final data collection. Descriptive (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (regression analysis) were applied to analyze the collected data. Results further revealed that respondents possess very good knowledge to identify legal and illegal activities and information on the Internet. Findings of the study, not only reported the Internet literacy skills of digital natives but also helped to come up with a theoretical model that may be useful to design an efficient and effective Internet literacy module/subject to help students increase their Internet use-related skills. |
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spelling | pubmed-80576162021-05-04 Mapping internet literacy skills of digital natives: A developing country perspective Soroya, Saira Hanif Ahmad, Abdus Sattar Ahmad, Shakil Soroya, Muhammad Shahid PLoS One Research Article Over the last three decades, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have changed the world in all walks of life. It has not only influenced the ways of human communication but also changed the way of learning. However, to utilize the facility of the Internet in effective manners, people need a certain set of skills called “Internet Literacy Skills”. The purpose of the study was to explore the level of Internet literacy skills of Undergraduate first-year students (Digital Natives) of the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. The study is quantitative, and data were gathered through questionnaires. A total of 180 students from three disciplines i.e. Pure Sciences, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities were approached for the final data collection. Descriptive (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (regression analysis) were applied to analyze the collected data. Results further revealed that respondents possess very good knowledge to identify legal and illegal activities and information on the Internet. Findings of the study, not only reported the Internet literacy skills of digital natives but also helped to come up with a theoretical model that may be useful to design an efficient and effective Internet literacy module/subject to help students increase their Internet use-related skills. Public Library of Science 2021-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8057616/ /pubmed/33878124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249495 Text en © 2021 Soroya et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Soroya, Saira Hanif Ahmad, Abdus Sattar Ahmad, Shakil Soroya, Muhammad Shahid Mapping internet literacy skills of digital natives: A developing country perspective |
title | Mapping internet literacy skills of digital natives: A developing country perspective |
title_full | Mapping internet literacy skills of digital natives: A developing country perspective |
title_fullStr | Mapping internet literacy skills of digital natives: A developing country perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Mapping internet literacy skills of digital natives: A developing country perspective |
title_short | Mapping internet literacy skills of digital natives: A developing country perspective |
title_sort | mapping internet literacy skills of digital natives: a developing country perspective |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8057616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33878124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249495 |
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