Digital Literacy Project (11914.1)

The Digital Literacy unit develops the skills needed to succeed in an academic environment and the world beyond where communication and access to information is increasingly through digital technologies like internet platforms, social media and mobile devices. Digital literacy enables students to clearly express ideas, ask relevant questions, maintain respect and build trust with the receiver. The Digital Literacy unit will enable students to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information requiring both cognitive and technical skills, and to do so safely and responsibly. The Digital Literacy unit enables students to investigate and explore Academic Integrity within digital literacies in an academic environment, and what it looks like to be ethical in a digital world.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Reflect critically on professional self-development;
2. Utilise digital literacy and creative skills to evaluate, navigate and think critically about information environments;
3. Understand digital citizenship and ethical consequences of behaviour in diverse contexts;
4. Review and evaluate metacognition within an academic environment and apply their understanding.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - apply their knowledge to working with Indigenous Australians in socially just ways

Prerequisites

None.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.