DIGITAL LITERACY SERVING SOCIAL NEEDS: MODELS IN THE WORLD AND APPROACH IN VIETNAM

Abstract

Since the opening to the Internet in 1997, Vietnam has rapidly become one of the world’s top-ranked countries in terms of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures development, resulting from the strong national policies of the government. The technological improvements in industry and all of the socio-economics sectors have conducted to the considerable changes in the social sector and education. Therefore, ICT is more and more used to enhance the quality of teaching, management and governance in education generally, and in higher education specifically. For students, the ICT skills become a basic requirement to achieve digital literacy, which is an undeniable key competence of students and workers in the 21^th century. As they may continuously change their professional orientation, jobs, functions or fields, mastering the digital tools for work and communication should help them to be successful. In this article, we aim to present an overview of some of the most common digital literacy’s models in the world and discuss them in the context of current situation in Vietnam to suggest new approaches for the digital literacy in Vietnam.