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Digital Skills GitBook
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  • Code of Conduct
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  • 1. Digital identity and wellbeing
    • Developing a digital presence
    • Phishing and identity theft
    • Using password managers
  • 2. Information literacy, media literacy and data literacy
    • Discerning fake news
    • Types of Data
    • ISO dates
    • Searching via databases
  • 3. Digital learning and development
    • Creating engaging online learning
    • Accessibility
    • Navigating the learning management system (LMS)
    • Pedagogy and andragogy in an online environment
  • 4. ICT proficiency and productivity
    • Installing and accessing browsers
    • Using spreadsheet applications
    • Digital preservation: file formats and how to change them
    • Creating a directory structure
    • Opening, editing and saving documents
    • Naming and organising files and folders
    • Printing documents
    • Accessing and sending emails
    • README files
    • Networks: the internet and how it works
    • Using QR codes
  • 5. Digital creation, problem solving and innovation
    • Git and GitHub
    • Markdown
    • Screencasting
  • 6. Collaboration, communication and participation
    • Using collaborative documents
  • Glossary
  • Requested articles
  • Our talks, presentations and articles
  • VALA 2024 Poster Presentation
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4. ICT proficiency and productivity

Chapter overview

This chapter aims to help you to choose and use relevant ICT-based tools to perform tasks more effectively and productively.

Topics include:

Hardware, software and apps: How to identify and choose suitable tech for your purposes.

‘How it works’: Discover concepts such as how the internet works, how digital systems work (and work together), and basic concepts in coding and information processing.

Digital communication tools: Identify key tools for emailing, engaging and connecting digitally.

Digital formats: Identify the longevity, differences and uses of digital formats.

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