The new literacy is digital literacy, and at its heart is coding -- computer programming and computational design.

I strongly believe that at the heart of many required skills for these and other 21st century jobs is digital literacy, digital design, computational problem solving, and coding.

Technology is not a panacea, only a means to an end. Increasing access to broadband and the Internet are an important first step, but we also need to find better ways of applying this technology to accelerate progress and prosperity for all.

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Game media are a key new literacy of today, and the ability to create games -- in addition to playing them -- is as elemental now as being able to read and write text.

Don't disconnect your kids: teenagers who spend time on the web are more digitally literate during a time when technological proficiency is increasing...

Are the same classes of people who got and didn't get premium traditional literacy the ones now getting premium digital literacy? Are we facing a social revolution or a deeper entrenchment?

Will these tools to help students go further, faster and be available to kids who have the farthest to go?

Imagine what it would mean to think of public education as a mission shouldered not only by schools, but also by a wide range of public institutions committed to knowledge and learning?

With today's social media, using literacy skills is like a dessert that can motivate kids to go on to the spinach.