Monday 12 September 2016

Digital Literacy Skills Checklist

Introduction

    ·        How confident are you that you can work effectively, and safely, online?

    ·        When you search for information, are you confident that you will be able to find the right information quickly?

·        Do you know how to tell if the information you find is relevant, and from a good source?

·        Do you know how to make the best of online networking tools like Facebook and Twitter?

·        Are you happy with the way you present yourself online, and do you know how to manage your 'digital identity'?

The skills you need for all of these situations are known as 'digital literacy'. These are skills that are not only useful in your personal life, but can be invaluable at work. In a digital age, they are all essential to employability.

Research around digital literacy is concerned with wider aspects associated with learning how to effectively find, use, summarise, evaluate, create, and communicate information while using digital technologies, not just being literate at using a computer.

This checklist will help you to gauge your level of confidence in a range of digital literacy skills.

Identify the skills for which you have indicated that you are 'quite confident' or 'not confident'.





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