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Digital Literacy: Tools for School, Work, and Life

An eight-week digital literacy course that uses DigitalLearn.org Google Tools materials as an attributed source foundation while students learn to choose tools, organize information, communicate, analyze data, manage access, verify sources, protect privacy, and defend a connected digital workflow.

Length
8 weeks
Audience
Grades 9-12
Entries
48

Week 01

  1. overviewWeek 1: Digital Foundations and Google ChromeThis week is about judgment, not button memorization. You will use Google tools, but the real target is deciding what the tool is doing, what information moves through it, who can access that information, and what…
  2. Lesson 1Digital Literacy Is More Than Knowing Where to ClickKnowing how to open Google Docs is a useful skill. It is not, by itself, digital literacy.
  3. Lesson 2Google Workspace Is an EcosystemGoogle Workspace can look like a collection of separate icons: Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Gmail, Calendar. The useful part is not the icon collection. The useful part is that the tools can share identity,…
  4. Lesson 3Chrome Is a Workspace, Not Just a WindowA browser is where a large part of school computing happens. That makes browser organization a real workflow skill, not cosmetic cleanup.
  5. Lesson 4DigitalLearn Lab: Google ChromeThis lesson keeps the original DigitalLearn Google Chrome activity in the course rather than replacing it with a Robotnix imitation.
  6. Lesson 5Build Your Digital Workspace BaselineYou have spent four lessons looking at the pieces. Now build the workspace you will actually use for the rest of the course.

Week 02

  1. overviewWeek 2: Google Drive and File ManagementA file that exists but cannot be found, recognized, or safely shared is not well managed. This week treats Drive as an information system rather than a giant digital backpack.
  2. Lesson 1Where Does the File Actually Live?“It's in Google” is not a location model.
  3. Lesson 2Folders, Names, and Search That Still Work Next MonthA naming system only matters after the assignment leaves your short-term memory.
  4. Lesson 3Sharing Is an Access-Control DecisionThe Share button is not a social feature. It changes who can do what with information.
  5. Lesson 4DigitalLearn Lab: Google DriveOpen the official DigitalLearn Google Drive course materials and complete the learner activity available there.
  6. Lesson 5Repair the Messy DriveYou are taking over a fictional project workspace. Nothing is missing, but the organization and access settings are bad enough that mistakes are likely.

Week 03

  1. overviewWeek 3: Gmail, Calendar, and Professional CommunicationDigital communication is more than typing a sentence and pressing Send. Messages carry recipients, links, attachments, timing, history, and trust signals. Calendar events connect people to the work those messages…
  2. Lesson 1Email Is a Message With MetadataAn email is not only the sentence in the middle of the screen. It also carries information about who sent it, who should receive it, what the conversation is called, what is attached or linked, and where the message…
  3. Lesson 2DigitalLearn Lab: Gmail BasicsOpen the official DigitalLearn Gmail Basics course materials and use the learner activity available there.
  4. Lesson 3Read the Message Before You Trust the MessageSuspicious email is a reasoning problem before it is a clicking problem.
  5. Lesson 4DigitalLearn Lab: Google CalendarOpen the official DigitalLearn Google Calendar course materials and complete the learner activity available there using your school-managed environment.
  6. Lesson 5Coordinate a Real WorkflowThis week's assignment is a small coordination system. One message, one event, and one shared agenda must agree with each other.

Week 04

  1. overviewWeek 4: Google Docs and Collaborative WritingA good document is not just text that looks nice on your screen. Its structure should survive different devices, different readers, collaboration, revision, and accessibility tools.
  2. Lesson 1Structure Before DecorationMaking a heading 24-point bold does not necessarily make it a real heading.
  3. Lesson 2Make the Document Readable to More PeopleAccessibility is not a final checkbox you add after the “real” document is finished. It changes how information is structured and communicated from the start.
  4. Lesson 3Collaboration Leaves EvidenceShared documents are useful because several people can contribute without emailing final-v7-actually-final.docx back and forth. The same collaboration tools can also make it unclear who changed what unless you…
  5. Lesson 4DigitalLearn Lab: Google DocsOpen the official DigitalLearn Google Docs course materials.
  6. Lesson 5Write a One-Page Technology BriefYour assignment is to explain a technical idea to someone who is not already an expert. One page forces decisions: what matters, what can be removed, what evidence deserves space, and how the reader can verify the…

Week 05

  1. overviewWeek 5: Google Sheets and Working With DataA spreadsheet can calculate perfectly and still support a bad conclusion. This week separates cells, formulas, charts, and evidence so that a correct number does not automatically become a trustworthy claim.
  2. Lesson 1A Spreadsheet Is a Data ModelA spreadsheet is not just a grid where numbers happen to fit. The grid represents a model of information.
  3. Lesson 2Formulas Are InstructionsA typed number is a result. A spreadsheet formula is an instruction for producing a result from other cells.
  4. Lesson 3Sort, Filter, and Visualize Without LyingSorting changes order. Filtering changes which records are visible. A chart changes how the data is perceived. None of those operations automatically changes the underlying facts, but each can change the story a reader…
  5. Lesson 4DigitalLearn Lab: Google SheetsOpen the official DigitalLearn Google Sheets course materials and complete the learner activity available from the source page.
  6. Lesson 5Build a Technology Data ReportYou will turn a small synthetic dataset into a report that someone else can audit. The assignment is successful only if the formulas, chart, observation, and limitation agree with the same evidence.

Week 06

  1. overviewWeek 6: Google Slides and Visual CommunicationSlides are not a document chopped into rectangles. A presentation is a communication system: an audience sees visual evidence while a presenter supplies context, sequence, and explanation.
  2. Lesson 1A Slide Has One JobA slide should help an audience understand the point you are making right now. It is not a storage container for every sentence you researched.
  3. Lesson 2Images and Charts Need a Reason to ExistA visual earns space when it does a job that text alone would do worse: show a relationship, reveal a pattern, orient the audience, or provide evidence.
  4. Lesson 3Accessibility Includes the PresenterA presentation has at least two users: the audience and the presenter. Accessibility improves when both can understand the structure without depending on tiny text, color-only signals, or memorized scripts.
  5. Lesson 4DigitalLearn Lab: Google SlidesOpen the official DigitalLearn Google Slides course materials and complete the learner activity available there.
  6. Lesson 5Five Slides, One Clear ExplanationYour final Week 6 presentation has a hard limit: five slides.

Week 07

  1. overviewWeek 7: Google Forms, Surveys, and Responsible Data CollectionEvery form field is a request for information. Good digital literacy includes knowing when a question is useful, when it is confusing, and when the safest choice is not to collect the information at all.
  2. Lesson 1Questions Create the DatasetA survey does not discover information automatically. The questions decide what information can exist in the response sheet.
  3. Lesson 2Build a Form With IntentA Google Form has two designs at the same time:
  4. Lesson 3Collect Less, Protect MoreThe safest sensitive field is often the field you never collected.
  5. Lesson 4DigitalLearn Lab: Google FormsOpen the official DigitalLearn Google Forms course materials and complete the learner activity available there.
  6. Lesson 5Design, Collect, AnalyzeThis assignment connects question design, Forms, Sheets, and evidence. You will collect a small, non-sensitive classroom dataset and make one bounded claim from it.

Week 08

  1. overviewWeek 8: The Connected Digital WorkspaceThe final week removes the training wheels. There is no new Google app to memorize. Your job is to choose the right tools, connect them deliberately, and defend the decisions with evidence.
  2. Lesson 1Choose the Tool by the JobYou now know enough Google tools to make a new kind of mistake: using a familiar tool for every problem.
  3. Lesson 2Digital Citizenship Is Operational“Be a good digital citizen” is too vague to guide a real decision.
  4. Lesson 3Search, Sources, and AI Need VerificationSearch engines and AI tools can help you locate, summarize, brainstorm, or rephrase information. They do not remove the need to verify factual claims.
  5. Lesson 4Capstone Build: Student Technology EventYou will build a connected digital workspace for a fictional student technology event. The event is deliberately fictional so the project can demonstrate real workflow decisions without collecting real attendee…
  6. Lesson 5Capstone Defense: Show the SystemThe final assessment is a Digital Workspace Portfolio and Defense. You are not being graded for remembering menu locations. You are defending why the workflow works, what evidence supports that claim, and where the…