Northstar Digital Literacy Standards for Essential Computer Skills define the basic skills needed to perform tasks on computers and online in daily life, employment, and higher education. They were developed in response to the needs of job seekers who may lack the digital literacy skills needed to seek, obtain, and retain employment, as well as to perform tasks in daily life.
These standards address the skills individuals need to perform tasks in three main areas:
- Essential Computer Skills: Computer Basics, Internet Basics, Using Email, Windows, and MAC Operating System
- Essential Software Skills: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Docs
- Using Technology in Daily Life: Social Media, Information Literacy, Career Search Skills, Supporting K-12 Distance Learning, and Your Digital Footprint
Teachers, advisors, and others use the standards to guide their incorporation of digital literacy into their instruction and assessment work with students. In this way, their students build mastery in the areas that matter to them.
Unable to attend? Register and receive the webinar recording and assignment instructions, and complete by March 15.
- Classroom and online teachers, computer teachers, advisors, directors, and anyone interested in digital literacy and digital resilience planning and development
This professional development activity/course is designed for:
In this session, you will get a tour of and learn how the standards were developed. You will hear how other programs have used them to inform instruction and assessment, and you'll have time to explore and consider how you might use them to inform and organize your digital literacy work with your students.
Schedule:
- The webinar will be Wednesday, March 2 from 10:00 am – 11:30 am.
- Following the webinar, your assignment will be to submit a brief evaluation of Northstar Digital Literacy standards as a resource to implement with students at your program (by March 15).
The total time for this PD activity is approximately 2.5 hours. We estimate the time as follows:
- Facilitated webinar: 1.5 hour
- Assignment: 1 hour
We are pleased to welcome Northstar New Business Specialist Theresa Sladek as presenter to share her knowledge and experience.
Note: Once you register via this calendar posting, you will receive an email from Ruzica Banovic a week before the event start date with instructions on how to access the Zoom session.
- List and differentiate between the various Northstar features and identify what each is useful for and how to use each one with students
- Proctor the assessments remotely with students
- Locate the standards
- Identify how you might start using the standards with your students
Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:
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