Pathways - Being Digital

Skills finder

When you select a pathway, you will see a number of activities on a particular theme. Pathways allow you to develop a deeper understanding of a topic. You can work through the activities in your chosen pathway in any order.


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Assess your skills

Assess your familiarity and confidence with online tools and environments and find out which activities can help you develop your skills further.

Here are the activities making up this pathway.

The icon next to each activity helps you to identify the format used (e.g. video, activity, further reading).

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Self-assessment: Understanding digital practices

Activity

A questionnaire to help you assess how familiar and confident you are with digital tools and online environments.

This activity will take you: 10 minutes

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Self-assessment: Finding information

Activity

A questionnaire to help you assess your skills in finding information online.

This activity will take you: 10 minutes

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Self-assessment: Finding information (pdf)

Self-assessment: Finding information (word)

Self-assessment: Using information

Activity

A self assessment questionnaire to evaluate how confident you are in using information online, including evaluating what you find, acknowledging the work of others, and keeping track of your sources.

This activity will take you: 10 minutes

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Self-assessment: Using information (pdf)

Self-assessment: Using information (word)

Self-assessment: Creating information

Activity

A questionnaire to help your skills in creating information online, including writing for different audiences and sharing documents.

This activity will take you: 10 minutes

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Self-assessment: Creating information (pdf)

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Deciding what to trust online

Activity

This activity will help you to develop some criteria for judging the accuracy and reliability of information you find online.

This activity will take you: 5 minutes

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Deciding what to trust online (pdf)

Deciding what to trust online (word)