As digital-info society gains force, capability to at one's will adapt digital technology in daily life is necessary to approach various information, and way of human's living is being changed with these digital appearance, and this means that Digital...
As digital-info society gains force, capability to at one's will adapt digital technology in daily life is necessary to approach various information, and way of human's living is being changed with these digital appearance, and this means that Digital Literacy is becoming basic competence for living as human. Further, with realizing e-government civil service whose duty is to provide service for administrative users also are not excluded from demand of these digital literacy, and through enhancement of this capability administrative service will be raised up at the same time. In this research, the concept of digital literacy has been studied with this background, the competence of digital literacy depending on general character of civil service, and has intended to research plans for enhancing civil service's capability of digital literacy.
Local educational administrative civil service working for Chuncheon city's local educational bureau, elementary and middle schools have been object of this research, and theoretical study through thesis, transactions of learned society, newspapers, internet data has been performed for theoretical analysis of digital literacy. Survey has been operated using existing developed checklist of digital literacy for more substantiated study. Element analysis to examine credibility and pertinence for the measuring result collected via questionnaires has been operated, and to find out digital literacy capability of research object t-test and One-way ANOVA using spss12.0 program have been performed.
Generalizing existing several researches, it can be defined that digital literacy is capability to produce information using digital technology and positively applying after critically analyzing it, and to create desirable digital society using acquired and examined information and sharing produced knowledge with other people.
With various established digital literacy concept this research has arranged kinds of literacy included in digital literacy and competences related to it and component elements needed in each capability. And without stopping to theoretically arrange index depending on capability and simple arrangement of digital literacy, this research intended to check digital literacy of local educational administrative civil service with substantial questions.
To sum up existing several researches, it can be defined that digital literacy is capability to produce information using digital technology and positively applying after critically analyzing it, and to create desirable digital society using acquired and examined information and sharing produced knowledge with other people.
To measure capability of digital literacy, established standard checklist of digital literacy by Kim Minha(2002) has been used, analysis of questions element was operated to examine pertinence of measured results for object of this research. As a result the number of questions in checklist that were 113 at first developing was reduced to 83 questions, and it again divided into 8 elements, so the researcher of this study divided digital literacy capability's components like following. First info-tech capability is composed with 3 elements of the first element(computer H/W, S/W, basic internet using capability), 4th element(problem solving capability on computer and Windows), 8th element(presentation capability). Secondly, info-applying capability is composed with 3 elements of 2nd element(info-search, applying, evaluation), 5th element(recognition capability of info-necessity). Lastly, info-sharing capability is composed with 2 elements of 3rd element(info-sharing and info-ethic recognition capabilities) and 6th element(community technology applying capability).
Centered with personal characters of questionnaire respondents, capability level of digital literacy of Chuncheon city's local educational administrative civil service has been analyzed. And the result showed that, in case of men, basic running capability for computer, H/W, S/W, and internet is low compared with women. Upon class of position, in case of 6 degree of administration, it showed that basic running capability of computer H/W, S/W, internet, 2nd element, 5th element, 6th element and 8th element were all low compared with 8 degree of administration, and this is the result felt necessary of enhancement of 6 degree of administration's digital literacy capability. Especially 8th element(presentation using capability) and 2nd element(info-search apply-evaluate capability) showed less than 3.0 to be urgent of education for part related. And in case of technical service 8th element showed lower capability in 8th element(presentation using capability) than 8 degree of administration. Upon age of in their 50s, element of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th all showed low value compared with ones in their 20s. This appears to show result related to age of 6 degree of administrative were mostly in their 50s all relating that 6 degree of administration showed low value compared with 8 degree of administration clarified above except 3rd element. In case of under high school graduate upon scholastic ability, element of 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th showed lower level than college graduate. In case of 1st element upon internet using experience, it showed that experienced ones under 5 years of internet using was lower than ones over 5 years, and in 4th and 5th element, ones with less than 5 years experience showed low compared with ones with more than 9 years. With base of above results, the plan for increasing level of digital literacy of Chuncheon city's local educational administrative civil service is first to open license acquiring classes and apply existing or being operated educational lectures. And secondly, to apply info-orientation contests. Thirdly, it will be to open research meetings for form various info-oriented mind and induce them to listen lectures related by themselves.