NEW EDUCATIONAL LITERACIES. CHANGES BROUGHT BY THE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICT's) IN EDUCATION

Technology changes the way we use to do things. It already changed the way we learn, we talk, we play and we work While in the first years, technological knowledge was the aim of those professionals working on the engineering field, nowadays, no matter of the work activity, you do need to possess the knowledge and the specific competences to work on a computer, to use a scanner or a printer, to search the information and to work with it and through it in order to create new knowledge results. In this study we aim to analyze all this changes at the level of the specific knowledge and competences. Therefore, we will focus on the technological literacy, information literacy and digital literacy. While technological literacy becomes more important due to the rapid spread of the ICT use in most of the activity fields and generates a constant pressure towards the involvement of all members of the society, regardless of age or cultural background, the information literacy is the result of the internet access and use. Students have access to a great extent of information and if they learn how to look for reliable information sources, they become more responsible on how they'll use it. In a world where schools aim is to prepare students in order to get integrated in the society, we do need to train them on how to use the instruments of this technological world to find a good answer to their needs by identifying the proper ICT tools and, therefore, developing their digital literacy.