Do you know what digital literacy is?

We learned with Mr. Stewart about how digital literacy is about being about to understand computer programmes and apps as well as being able to use them. Just like literacy is about reading and understanding information as well as writing and communicating.

We are already very good at using phones, laptops, computers and tablets to do things like:

• researching – using the internet and encyclopedia software to find information
• communicating – using email, text messaging, instant messaging, social media platforms
• photography – creating videos and photographs using digital cameras and iMovie editing software
• entertaining ourselves – playing online games, watching videos and listening to music on YouTube

Over the next few weeks, Mr Stewart and Mrs Brightman are showing us new skills in presenting data through a piece of software on the school iPads called Numbers – this is an Apple app available for iPad and iPhone. It is similar to the Microsoft programme Excel and allows us to create graphs and charts easily.

We found the bar charts and pie charts we generated looked a lot better than the ones we draw by hand! Isn’t modern technology amazing!!