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. 

1. Digital Safety and Security:
   Understanding online behaviour and awareness of how to protect oneself in the online space,.

2. Digital Responsibility:
   Demonstrating respect for oneself and others, and practicing safe, responsible, and ethical use when navigating the online space,.

3. Digital Knowledge Currency:
   Keeping up-to-date with technological developments and the use of digital resources as part of learning for life,.

4. Computational Thinking:
   Employing computational thinking together with technological tools to solve problems (e.g., developing and testing solutions),.

5. 👉Digital Information Management:
   Employing effective strategies to locate information/resources, exercising discernment by evaluating accuracy/credibility, and distilling/synthesising essential content,.

6. Digital Communication, Collaboration and Participation:
   Leveraging digital platforms and tools to communicate ideas, connect with others, and contribute constructively to a common goal,.

7. Data Competencies:
   Reading, understanding, interpreting, manipulating, analysing, and presenting data in meaningful ways,.

8. Device and Software Operations:
   Understanding how devices and software work in order to use them effectively and productively,.

9. Coding and Programming:
   Utilising a variety of digital methods (such as block-based programming, text-based programming, or prompt engineering) to create digital artefacts, or to develop, test, and debug solutions