Digital literacy
Digital literacy is knowing roughly what your devices are doing and why. It is the difference between using technology and being at its mercy, and almost all of it is learnable in an afternoon.
What you'll learn
10 chapters, then the quiz
- 01Devices and operating systemsWhat is running underneath.
- 02Files and foldersKnowing where things are.
- 03The cloudFiles on someone else's computer.
- 04Browsers and the webWhat the browser is doing.
- 05Privacy and metadataWhat you share without noticing.
- 06Searching wellFinding what you need.
- 07Email and messagingEveryday tools used badly.
- 08Accounts and identityThe keys to everything.
- 09Information and mediaReading a feed.
- 10Fixing things yourselfA general method.
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