THE CLARIFICATION OF THE CONCEPT OF COMPUTER LITERACY BASED ON PRESENT DAY
The formation of the information society puts forward new requirements for the modern personality. In order for a person to live and successfully develop in information society, it is necessary that it was educated informationally. Modern researchers have identified a range of concepts that characterize information-educated personality: information culture, information literacy, information competence, media literacy, computer literacy. These concepts are often understood by researchers in different ways, so it is necessary to understand their formulations and in how they connect to each other. In this article, the author clarifies the formulation of the concept of computer literacy. The article analyzes the approaches of the founders of the concept of computer literacy, and the approaches of modern researchers. Formulating this concept at the beginning of the process of computerization of society, the authors identified specific knowledge and skills that should have in the field of computer technology. Modern authors give a more General concept, most often computer literacy is understood as a set of knowledge and skills that allow the use of computer and information technology in life and professional activities. In the author's opinion, it is necessary to clarify the specific knowledge and skills that characterize computer literacy of the modern person. For this purpose, in addition to the analysis of the approach to the formulation of the concept, the normative documents that regulate the formation of the information society in Russia and abroad were analyzed. And also analyzed the skills of the population on a personal computer and the purpose of using the Internet, considered in the statistical book "Information society in the Russian Federation". This collection reflects the research on the formation of the information society in Russia, and analyzed skills acting as an important component of modern human. All of the above allowed to highlight the knowledge and skills related to computer literacy of the individual and to clarify the wording of the concept based on modern realities.