Digital skills between soft and hard. The Media Educator among critical issues and opportunities

This era is marked by a profound mutation in the forms and expression of human life that reflects a substantial alteration of the traditional coordinates of space and time, axes of thought con-fused into a third dimension imposed by the digital environment: immediacy. This transition implies a reflection on educational potential of technologies in response to contemporary emergencies and fragilities. Therefore, in this historical-cultural context, it might be appropriate to rethink digital skills no longer as hard skills, i.e., as mere technical-computational skills, but as soft skills, i.e., cognitive-operational skills, , indispensable for inhabiting in onlife era. Hence, the need to have Media Educators with a strong educative and cultural, as well as technological, identity, who know how to operate especially in the non-formal and informal sphere, in the third sector and in the territories of risk, moving effectively and efficiently, between criticalities and opportunities, in the living platforms of digital, a potential place for the development of digital soft skills.