digitalskills.com → basic digital skills are a minimum level of digital skills you need in order to safely use digital technology to access the benefits that it can provide.

Categories:

1. Managing information: how do you find, manage and store digital information and content?

2. Communicating: how do you use digital technology to communicate, interact, collaborate, share and connect with other people?

3. Transacting: how do we use digital technology to purchase and sell goods and services, organize your own finances, register for and use increasingly government digital services?

4. Problem solving: How do we increase independence and confidence by solving problems using digital tools but also using digital tools to find solutions?

5. Creating: how do we get people to engage with communities by creating digital content?

Digital competence: is the set of knowledge, skills and attitudes that are required when using ICT and digital media to perform tasks, to solve problems, to communicate, to manage information, to collaborate, to create and share content effectively online.

The website Mashable suggested 10 things that young people should be leaving school with in 2015 and these are the 10 things:

1. The ability to set up a Wi-Fi network

2. The ability to back up to the cloud

3. Basic photo editing

4. Basic video editing

5. Google docs and Microsoft Office

6. HTML and basic coding

7. How to set up a website and domain

8. Converting file formats

9. Online banking

10. How do you brand yourself in a digital community

• What digital skills do you think are important in 2015? Do you agree with the Mashable website?

• What digital skills do you think will be important by 2030?