Today I received an email from CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) centre informing me of a new resource available for parents. Some very timely and important information with Safer Internet Day next Tuesday (7th February) just around the corner. They've just released some advice and a new video aimed at parents of both primary and secondary school pupils. A very useful website and advice to share with the parents of children in your school.
In a couple of previous posts I looked at what was meant by the term digital literacy and what this could mean in the Welsh education context. These were written in response to a recommendation from the ICT Steering Group report , proposing a new statutory Digital Literacy Framework for schools. I attempted to define what digital literacy meant using definitions from groups such as The Royal Society, Becta, Futurelab , Jisc and Common Sense Media. It was very difficult to pin down exactly what it meant but there were certainly commonalities between all of them. This week however, Prof. Graham Donaldson published his report on the curriculum and assessment in Wales, "Successful Futures" , and in it referred not to digital literacy , but to digital competence (which is a term I'm far happier using). I therefore feel it's important for me to try in this post to understand what is meant by this term, look at some definitions and find out if there are any differences ...
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