Digital Literacy & Technological Skills (DLTS)

Overview

Under the EdTech Masterplan 2030, one of the key strategic thrusts is to strengthen the development of students’ digital literacy and technological skills. This is to ensure that students are well-equipped with the digital competencies to thrive in an increasingly technology-saturated future.

• Digital literacy: A set of knowledge, skills and dispositions that would help our learners be confident, critical and responsible users of digital technologies.

• Technological skills: The ability to understand and use specific technologies to solve problems and achieve practical goals. As a start, we will focus on artificial intelligence (AI) literacy, to equip our students to understand what AI is, to identify and explain its potential benefits, limitations, and risks, and to be able to leverage AI tools effectively for learning and for their daily lives.

MOE’s National Digital Literacy Programme was launched in March 2020 for our schools and Institutes of Higher Learning. Under the programme, students will acquire digital skills across four components in the “Find, Think, Apply, Create” framework.