LiDA101 This page provides a great explanation of how the semantic differences of skills, and literacy and proficiency are experience in real life and why it is important to acknowledge the difference when it comes to teaching and learning goals and outcomes.

There should be gradual introduction of digital literacy in the learning process as students have different levels and means of understanding and translating and relating meaning. As living in the real world is not a linear process, living in the digital world and embracing its different literacy needs needs rather a continuous process of varying depth of understanding.