Digital Skills Awareness
Section outline
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Digital Skills Awareness
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This section outlines the key digital skills you will need for your studies. It will not give you the digital skills -- it is for avoiding surprises that make you say "no one told me I need to know that!". Once you start to study at LSHTM, you will have access to LSHTM support (Library, IT Services, Digital Learning, tutors etc.) who can help you how to acquire or improve your skills.
Here we offer tips and advice from a variety of sources, including other students and university support staff, as well as helpful links and videos from around the internet.
You will find a quizzes through the course to check your knowledge. Don't worry they are for your information only and you can take them as many times as you like.
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What is Digital Literacy ?
Digital literacy, digital competency and digital capability are all popular terms for the same thing: being skilled at using a range of technologies that support living, learning and working in a digital society - now and in the future. Importantly, Digital Literacy is about applying criticality around the use of technology to succeed in a digital world.
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This section introduces you to some fundamental concepts, basic technologies and popular programs that you will encounter when you start your studies. Your work will consist of files of various kinds. This section offers useful information about managing files.
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