Digital Literacy Resources for Waikato University Staff

Some simple tips for online safety and protecting yourself and your data.

Fear and loathing - this time regarding students accessing the Internet at home on Chromebooks.

Mapping digital skills in Irish HE.

Building capability for new digital leadership, pedagogy and efficiency

The difference between digital literacy and a computer driving licence. Also known as deep learning and being of the web.

The focus of this report is on transforming teaching and learning, enabled by technologies that are now widespread in our society. Digital technologies play an increasingly critical role in shaping and supporting an effective 21st century curriculum.

Digital Competence has been acknowledged as one of the 8 key competences for Lifelong Learning by the European Union. Digital Competence can be broadly defined as the confident, critical and creative use of ICT to achieve goals related to work, employability, learning, leisure, inclusion and/or participation in society. Digital Competence is a transversal key competence which enables acquiring other key competences (e.g. language, mathematics, learning to learn, cultural awareness). It is related to many of the so-called 21st Century skills which should be acquired by all citizens, to ensure their active participation in society and the economy.

Why owning your identity online is better than letting someone else own it.

A support network helping people who are being abused, stalked, hacked, doxed and threatened online. Started by the original victim of #gamergate.