Lower Secondary Digital Literacy 0082: Stage 8

Tools and Content Creation

Safety and Wellbeing

The Digital World

Develop fluency and accuracy when typing in increasing quantity.

Use devices to create increasingly sophisticated digital artefacts, including the use of sound, video, text and other multimedia.

Create templates and master documents and understand the benefit of these.

Understand when it is appropriate to use informal ways to convey emotion or meaning in an electronic message, for example emojis, gifs and memes.

Use advanced search techniques to refine search results.

Know that permissions can be set on files or within a network to protect them from unauthorised access.

Understand personal identity can be protected by having a username which is not personally identifiable.

Assess the suitability and security of websites and hyperlinks through reading the URL.

Know that metadata can provide a detailed description of an online user and that each online action increases the detail of that description.

Understand that metadata can be sold as a product.

Understand that they have personal responsibility for their digital activity, safety and wellbeing.

Make effective judgments about the validity of the source and accuracy of information found online.

Understand the benefits and limitations of different methods of online communication, including video, audio and text.

Describe how digital technology is changing the workplace.

Describe the benefits and risks of the Internet of Things.