Digital Literacy

1. Digital Literacy
for
Universal Success
Suhail Aziz

2. Digital Skills in Daily Life
• Using your phone to check emails.
• Creating an online profile on a social media platform
• Using online search to complete a research project
• Using an online search engine to find the answer to a
question
• Evaluating online resources to learn how accurate or
trustworthy some information is

3. Importance in Modern Era
• In the digital era, being digitally literate can help you
advance your ability to participate in the economy.
• All organizations in the digital economy, are coming
to realize that digital skills are vital for employees in
the digital era.
• In the covid-19 shifted world, it is more important
than ever that new employees are cross-disciplined
and have both hard and soft skills

4. Digital Literacy
“Having the right digital skills to
achieve our goals”

5. “Digital Literacy is the ability to use information and
communication technologies to find, evaluate, create,
and communicate information, requiring both cognitive
and technical skills.”
Digital Literacy

6. Beyond the Definition
Digital literacy doesn’t just mean IT proficiency. It
requires thinking skills, an awareness of the necessary
standards of behavior expected in online environments,
and an understanding of the shared social issues
created by digital technologies.

7. What’s Digital Literacy
Digital literacy = digital tools knowledge + critical thinking
+ social engagement.

8. Digital Tools Knowledge
• The ability to use digital tools to design
and create compelling original content,
to access, use, and share information.

9. Critical Thinking
Questioning how authentic, valid and useful
digital information is.

10. Social Engagement
Communicating and collaborating with
others in the digital space.

11. KEY DIGITAL SKILLS

12. Photo-visual Literacy
• This is the ability to recognize a photo or infographic
and be able to understand the symbolism behind
them.
• So, you’re able to “read” the photo on the screen
intuitively and understand the instruction and the
message behind the visual.
• For example, if you see a photo of a small trash bin,
you immediately understand that it means “delete”.

13. Socio-emotional Literacy
• This is the ability to identify the advantage of
working in the digital space but also identifying the
“traps” and dangers that may come with working in
cyberspace and how to avoid them.

14. Information Literacy
• The ability to know when there is a need for
information and using that information for the
problem at hand.
• It’s also having skepticism when consuming
information. For example, knowing how to identify
fake news in the age of misinformation.

15. Reproduction Literacy
• Digital reproduction literacy is the ability to create a
meaningful, authentic, and creative work or
interpretation, by integrating existing independent
pieces of information.

16. Branching Literacy
• Branching literacy is understanding the complexity of
cyberspace.
• It is the ability to navigate the internet and databases
without getting “lost” in cyberspace.
• In simple terms, it involves making a mental note of
how you got to a certain page once you are there,
how to leave it, opening other tabs, choosing options
based on visuals, etc.

17. Skills for Employability
• Social Media skills
• Analytics
• Understanding collaboration and project management
tools – Google Drive, Asana, Trello
• Content Marketing – blog posts, videos, podcasts,
infographics, social media status updates
• Emails, google calendar
• Fluency in choosing the right device and software
• Awareness of digital trends

18. Searching Effectively
From researching a school report to
watching the latest music video, students
need to learn how to evaluate the quality,
credibility, and validity of media and to
give proper credit to the source.

19. Protecting Private Information Online
With so many ways to share information,
people need to learn internet safety
basics, such as creating strong passwords,
using privacy settings, and respecting their
friends' privacy.

20. Understanding Digital Footprints
• What makes digital media so cool -- the
ability to interact -- also creates tiny
tracks across the web.
• People need to know that whenever they
create a profile, post something, or
comment on something, they're creating
a composite profile potentially viewable
by others.

21. Respecting Other's Ideas and Opinions
To be digitally literate, students must
understand that what makes the web an
amazing place is that for this vast virtual
world to function properly, we must all be
good digital citizens.

22. Digitally Literate People
There are variety of characteristics that
distinguish between a digitally literate and
other person.

23. Wide Knowledge
A digitally literate person possesses the
variety of skills – technical and cognitive –
required to find, understand, evaluate,
create, and communicate digital information
in a wide variety of formats.

24. Understanding
A person who is digitally literate
understands the relationship between
technology, life-long learning, personal
privacy, and stewardship of information.

25. Social Networking
A digitally literate person uses these skills
and the appropriate technology to
communicate and collaborate with peers,
colleagues, family, and on occasion, the
general public.

26. Digital Citizenship
A digitally literate person uses these skills
to actively participate in civic society and
contribute to a vibrant, informed, and
engaged community.

27. How to Learn Digital Skills?
• Watch YouTube
There are YouTube videos for everything and
it’s not just a website – it’s the world’s
second-largest search engine

28. How to Learn Digital Skills?
• Take a course
If you find it hard to dedicate time to
self-learning, then committing to a
course – either free online or classroom-
based – might be what you need.

29. How to Learn Digital Skills?
• Find a teacher
If you’re a working person, ask someone
digitally savvy in your institution /
organization to help you learn. You can
also ask someone in your family,
community, varsity to teach you.

30. THANK YOU