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.

Audience: 9-12
Length: 8 weeks
Delivery: Scheduled

Course overview

This eight-week course develops practical digital judgment with Google Workspace, information literacy, communication, data, access, privacy, and responsible connected work. Learners use tools because a task requires them, then explain how their choices protect people, information, and collaboration.

Audience and pace

Grades 9–12. The scheduled course uses eight five-lesson weeks at 210 instructional minutes per week.

What you will learn

Organize files, browser work, documents, messages, calendars, forms, and data intentionally.
Evaluate information, sharing settings, accessibility, privacy, and communication choices.
Build documents, sheets, slides, and forms that make evidence clear instead of merely looking finished.

Course structure

The sequence moves from digital foundations and Chrome to Drive, communication, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and a connected digital workspace. Each section ends with a usable evidence artifact rather than a tool-tour completion mark.

Learning evidence and assessment

Learners create a workspace baseline, file-management record, meeting plan, technology brief, data report, visual explanation, responsible survey, and integrated workspace portfolio. Feedback emphasizes access, evidence, revision, and audience needs.

Expectations and boundaries

Use school-approved accounts and fictional or authorized material. Do not submit private information, alter someone else’s sharing or calendar, or treat a generated response as verified information. Cite sources and make accessibility part of the work.

Capstone

The Digital Workspace Portfolio and Defense connects organized storage, writing, data, visual communication, scheduling, privacy-aware collection, access, verification, and explanation for a fictional student technology event.

Access and support

Use the course reader, supplied templates, and approved Google Workspace tools. Accessible alternatives, typed or recorded explanations, and structured evidence templates are available when needed.