A recent article on the website, Chief Learning Officer (click here for link), suggests the existence of a digital intelligence. The authors, Ian Stewart and Miles Runham, describe digital intelligence as
“a loose framework to help us identify the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors that make up the ‘digital sensibility’ needed to operate and succeed in increasingly digital organizations and marketplaces”
They outline a possible model and suggest ways to develop and grow this intelligence.
Howard Gardner had this to say on the matter of technological or digital intelligence:
“Although a technological intelligence makes sense, I am conservative in adding new intelligences. Instead, I believe what is exhibited as ‘technological intelligence’ is actually a combination of spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, and logical-mathematical intelligences. Digital intelligence is basically logical-mathematical intelligence with a ‘dollop’ of bodily-kinesthetic intelligence.
Stephen Mithen, a British anthropologist, does believe that humans stand out because of our technological / tool-making intellectual capacities. In addition, my colleague, neurologist Antonio Battro, published a book, in Spanish, on digital intelligence. The book is titled Hacia una Inteligencia Digital and can be found here.
So the idea has some currency in the world of scholarship.”