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The development of digital literacy and digital competencies are widely recognised as essential in our increasingly digitised world. However, as we begin to come to terms with the extent of the climate crisis facing the world, this webinar asks the question: is it time for digital literacy to focus its attention on the impact our digital activity has on the environment? 

In this webinar, presenters Dr Peter Tiernan and Dr Benjamin Mallon from Dublin City University examine popular digital tools and services used for entertainment and work purposes and highlight their environmental impact and potential mitigating factors. They look at definitions of digital literacy to reveal a complex set of competencies which, as yet do not engage with the environmental impact of our activity. They consider widely used digital literacy frameworks and expose their relative lack of engagement with the environmental impact of our digital lives.

Finally, they discuss environmental impact as a component of digital literacy and propose ways to achieve this with his students, using the language of existing digital literacy definitions.