The Mediating Role of Digital Literacy between Lifelong Learning Tendency and 21st Century Skills

Fatih Yılmaz; Serap Yılmaz Özelçi; Celalettin Çelebi

doi:10.17275/per.25.8.12.1

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The Mediating Role of Digital Literacy between Lifelong Learning Tendency and 21st Century Skills

Abstract

The rapid growth of technology accompanied new requirements in all aspects of life. The constant flow of information and the irresistible rise of technology gave rise to 21st-century skills, digital literacy, and lifelong learning concepts which are all in the spotlight of several organizations, policymakers, and researchers. Due to the increasing accessibility of technology, people, each day, feel the need to adapt to this new pace of life. Thus, teachers not only should be aware of their students’ needs but also be equipped with the qualifications the current age entails. With this in mind, in this paper, the researchers studied the mediating role of digital literacy between teachers' lifelong learning tendency and their 21st-century skills. The sample consists of 273 randomly selected teachers. The researchers used three different multifactor data collection tools. In addition to the acceptable validity and reliability results, the findings indicate varying degrees of positive correlations among the factors of the data collection tools. The outputs also indicate that participants’ lifelong learning tendencies were at a low, but digital literacy and 21st-century skills were at a medium level. Moreover, while lifelong learning tendency directly affects 21st-century skills, ethics and responsibility act as a mediator between lifelong learning tendency and 21st-century skills.

Keywords

21st century skills, digital literacy, information and communication technologies, lifelong learning, mediation analysis

Ethical Statement

Araştırma için gerekli etik kurul izni alınarak dosyalar kısmına yüklenmiştir.

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English

Subjects

Specialist Studies in Education (Other)

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Research Article

Authors

Fatih Yılmaz ^*
0000-0001-7852-6756
Türkiye

Serap Yılmaz Özelçi
0000-0003-0518-581X
Türkiye

Celalettin Çelebi
0000-0002-2189-6403
Türkiye

Early Pub Date

December 27, 2024

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January 1, 2025

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August 22, 2024

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December 7, 2024

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1.Fatih Yılmaz, Serap Yılmaz Özelçi, Celalettin Çelebi. The Mediating Role of Digital Literacy between Lifelong Learning Tendency and 21st Century Skills. PER. 2025 Jan. 1;12(1):138-56. doi:10.17275/per.25.8.12.1