Volume 11 : Issue 11.3 (2024)

Digital Literacy of Prospective Teachers

Digital Literacy has been emerged as a one of the most important literacies in the last decades after covid-19 the whole education system of India has been shifted towards digitalisation from the face-to-face mode of education as this shift is very much important for the prospective teacher which going to be future teachers of the society need to be digitally equipped so that they can be able to nurture the children according to the need of the 21st century. This paper focuses on the digital literacy of students’ teacher of 4-year integrated B.A./B.Sc. B.Ed. programs. The mean digital literacy score of prospective teachers is 59.13% which shows that they are having average digital literacy. This paper also discusses the mean digital score of male and female prospective teacher of science stream and arts stream and the internal relationship between the groups and the gender.

Digital Literacy, Digital Competence, Digital Security, Prospective Teachers

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