Supporting Digital Higher Education
The European Digital Competence Framework, now in its fifth incarnation as DigComp 3.0, represents one of the most comprehensive efforts to define what it means to be digitally competent in the 21st century. Developed by the European Commission’s Joint Research Continue Reading
I rarely come across much discussion over digital wellbeing. For many of us, we are connected to the digital world most of the time. I am currently sat on holiday, using the hotel WiFi (through a VPN, of course) to Continue Reading
I expect that a few of us reading this know what an infomercial is. An advert that is designed to look like a magazine article, or a news story, that tries to use (in some cases) pseudoscience or ‘statistics’ (notice Continue Reading
I have always written in Word, but after having some issues with creating larger documents I decided to teach myself to use LaTeX (pronounced La Tek). Self-development is a more advanced digital literacy skill, and requires a combination of self-reflection, Continue Reading
There are so many! So, where to start? I think all of us have preferred tools for different tasks. And, for me, these change over time. I seem to have a preference for open source tools. I think it is Continue Reading
If you are frustrated in your use of digital technologies, it may be that you need to think about going back to basics and considering your technical proficiency. If we consider the lower levels of digital literacy development try to Continue Reading
This sounds like a simple question doesn’t it? Well, it’s not. For a start the term ‘digital literacy’ is not universally used. But I use it as I find that this term best describes what digital literacy is, and I Continue Reading