“The Internet may have fundamentally changed how we read,
write, and gather information. Nevertheless, these new skills are actually built on some old, foundational literacy skills—the ability to decode and comprehend text. In fact, you could argue that basic literacy skills are even more essential than ever, serving as the entry point for the kinds of sophisticated skills that students will need to use media and complex information systems.”*
I say, “Well said”!
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Taken from Two Worlds: One City, Two Libraries, and Ten Years of Watching Inequality Grow by Neuman and Celano. http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/fall2012/Neuman.pdf
The Digital Literacy Vine 
I agree that you need to learn basic literacy skills first before you can start decoding information from the Internet, but I imagine more children today in grade school and even kindergarten are learning to read and write through the medium of computers, either by watching some form of tutorial video or reading an assignment on their laptop while sitting at their desk. I suspect that more children will need to learn to type at an earlier age than before, probably around the same time they’re learning to read and write.