8 Digital Life Skills All Children Need:

8 Digital Life Skills All Children Need:

A generation ago, IT and digital media were niche skills. Today, they are a core competency necessary to succeed in most careers.

That's why digital skills are an essential part of a comprehensive education framework. Without a national digital education programme, command of and access to technology will be distributed unevenly, exacerbating inequality and hindering socio-economic mobility.

What's your DQ?

The challenge for educators is to move beyond thinking of IT as a tool or IT-enabled education platforms. Instead, they need to think about how to nurture students' ability and confidence to excel both online and offline in a world where digital media is ubiquitous.

Like IQ or EQ - which we use to measure someone's general and emotional intelligence - an individual's facility and command of digital media is a competence that can be measured. We call it DQ : digital intelligence. And the good news is that DQ is an intelligence that is highly adaptive.

DQ can broadly be broken down into three levels.