This document outlines five key areas of digital skills: ICT/computer skills, information skills, media skills, communication and collaboration skills, and learning skills. It provides examples of practices for each area. ICT/computer skills include using devices and applications for tasks like online banking and working with documents. Information skills involve finding, organizing, and evaluating online information. Media skills pertain to creating, understanding, and distributing digital media while respecting intellectual property rights. Communication and collaboration skills relate to online communication and collaborative work. Learning skills encompass managing time and learning independently using digital tools and materials.

1.  Digital skills, knowledge and practices
are increasingly important in enabling
us to effectively and safely understand
and interact with the digital world
 Being digitally literate allows us to
consume and produce digital content
and enhance how we operate in our
professional, academic and personal
lives.

2.  The five areas of digital skills and
practices are
 ICT /Computer Skill
 Information Skill
 Media Skill
 Communication And Collaboration
 Learning Skills

3. ICT / COMPUTER SKILL
 This refers to the ability to use digital
devices ,programmes, applications
and services in pursuit of goals.
 It covers a wide range of
competencies from basic keyboard
skills to the ability to explore and
understand new technologies.

4.  An ICT literate person is able to
choose from a variety of tools and
services to achieve an object using
most appropriate means.

5. Example practices
 Use digital devices for everyday office
tasks
 Online banking, shopping online, printing
 Using E-mail, creating and working with
documents, spreadsheets
 Copying file, e-mailing a file
 Evaluate and select a device
appropriate for personal or work use
 Choose and buy a laptop, tablet or smartphone

6. INFORMATION SKILLS
 Being able to find, interpret, evaluate,
organise, manipulate, share and
record information is vital to learning
and working in the 21st century.

7. EXAMPLE PRACTICES
 Find Content
 Organize and share resources
 Evaluate resources

8. MEDIA SKILLS
 Production of high quality media is
now relatively using widely available
sevice and software.
 Effective consumption and production
of these type of outputs requires a
sophisticated understanding of
audience, creator and message.

9. Example practices
 Awareness, experience and
understanding of a range of digital
media
 E.g. email, blog, skype, youtube, twitter,
facebook
 Understand audience
 Choose means of transmission most suitable to
target recipients
 Choose appropriate language and content
 Create media resources
 Capture with photo,video and audio
 Use text, video and audio editing software

10.  Awareness if Intellectual Property
Right laws
 Knowledge of how IPR applies to own content
 Knowledge of how IPR applies to the use of content of
others

11. COMMUNICATION &
COLLABORATION
 Digital networks increasingly play a
significant role in supporting
knowledge, scholarship, research and
learning, whilst collaborative working
supported by digital forms of
communication is now common.

12. Example and practice
 Communication
 Using email, online forums, chatrooms, social networks
 Understanding of online etiquette for different areas of
communication
 Using skype,microsoft communicator or other software
for video calls
 Collaborative
 Working simultaneously on document in online
environment
 Version control and tracking changes for document
passed between users
 Events
 Participating in and running interactive online events

13. LEARNING SKILLS
 There are similarities to general
learning skills but here there is a
particular focus on the ability to study
and learn effectively in technology-rich
environments.
 Sometimes referred to as ‘learning to
learn online’ this encompasses the
use of digital tools to support critrical
thinking , academic writing, note
taking, time and task management.

14.  A learner should be also be
comfortable being assesses and
attending to feedback in digital formats
and with undertaking independent
study using digital/digitised resources
and learning materials.

15. Example Practices
 Managing time and commitments
 Using calendars on one or across multiple devices eg
outlook, Google, Ical etc
 Understanding of how to organize meeting using
Microsoft Outlook
 Understanding and use of skype, microsoft
communicator or video conferencing as a way to save
time.
 Identifying and attending to own
learning needs
 Online tutorials, forums etc
 Online courses
 Google, You tube, Wikipedia etc

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