【推荐3】If someone asked you about the meaning of illiteracy (文盲), you might first _________ people who cannot read or write. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg (冰山一角). In a time when all people are using digital devices (电子设备) “digital literacy (数字素养)” is becoming just as _________ as reading and writing.

According to the website Digital Literacy, being digitally literate means that you are able to understand and use information online. For example, can you tell _________ information? Are you able to _________ useful information on the Internet when you need it? Do you know how to write polite comments (评论)?

Some schools are now realizing the importance of equipping (装备) their students with these _________. Digital literacy is being _________ in at least 24 states in the US, according to HuffPost.

More schools around the world are teaching coding (编程) to their students, as this can also help to _________ digital literacy. The UK has made coding a compulsory (必修的) course for primary school students.

In China, Beijing and Zhejiang have _________ it to their high school curriculum (课程) and schools in Shandong have included it in primary school textbooks.

Teaching students to be digitally literate doesn’t mean that schools are trying to _________ every student into a computer scientist, just as studying music doesn’t make everyone a concert pianist. Computer science teacher Clive Beale from the UK pointed this out in an interview with The New York Times. “But this is how these things work. And it’s good for everyone to __________ how these things work,” Beale Said.