Digital Literacy is to be able to effectively find, identify, evaluate, and use information. Digital literacy specifically applies to media from the internet, smartphones, video games, and other nontraditional sources. It is important that all SES students are immersed into educational opportunites that help them learn and apply these skills on a daily basis.  In the library media center lessons are designed to develop and reinforce at all levels.

Students today are using the immense power of  digital media to explore, connect, create and learn in ways never imagined. These activities offer both awesome opportunities and potential pitfalls. And kids' digital lives don't stop at the school gates, either. The spillover can result in cyberbullying, digital cheating, and safety and security concerns. That's why digital literacy is a uniquely important part of media literacy.

Here are some key digital-literacy skills kids can learn at home and at school:

• Searching effectively. From researching a school report to watching the latest music video, kids need to learn how to evaluate the quality, credibility, and validity of media and to give proper credit to the source. 
• Protecting private information online. With so many ways to share information, kids need to learn internet safety basics, such as creating strong passwords, using privacy settings and respecting the privacy of others.
• Giving proper credit when using other people's work. In a world where anything can be copied, pasted, and even claimed as one's own, it's critical that kids learn to correctly cite sources.
• Understanding digital footprints. What makes digital media so cool -- the ability to interact -- also creates tiny tracks across the web. Kids need to know that whenever they create a profile, post something, or comment on something, they're creating a composite profile potentially viewable by others.
• Respecting each other's ideas and opinions. To be digitally literate, kids must understand that what makes the web an amazing place is that for this vast virtual world to function properly, we must all be good digital citizens.

Source: Common Sense Media