Available Learning Modules
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🔥 Techology Tips
From boosting productivity with keyboard shortcuts to organizing your digital life with proper file management, this collection of technology tips covers fundamental skills from keyboard shortcuts to file organization, helping students work more efficiently and effectively. -
🔎 Information Literacy
The ability to use the web, search engines, databases, and critical approaches to navigate, evaluate, and share information effectively and responsibly. -
💻 Techology Product Literacy
From smartphones to gaming consoles, from laptops to smart home devices, this module demystifies computer hardware, helping students understand the core components that power the technology they use every day. Armed with this knowledge, students will hopefully stop buying Chromebooks! -
🐍 Intro to Programming with Python
Learning the fundamentals of writing code. Students learn basic programming concepts, syntax, and practice computational thinking approaches to problem-solving. -
📊 Data Literacy
Understanding, interpreting, and using data. Students learn to analyze data, visualize it using charts and graphs, and make data-driven decisions. -
🤖 AI & Machine Learning
Demystify AI! Learn about the different types of AI, the data-driven process of Machine Learning, how to maximize your prompting power, and the ethical dimensions around AI technologies and their use.
About These Resources
These educational materials are freely available to everyone—whether you're a self-learner building your digital literacy skills, an educator looking for class resources, or an instructional designer seeking materials to adapt for your own courses.
License & Usage: All materials may be accessed, used, and modified freely for educational purposes. Commercial use is not permitted. We encourage educators to adapt these resources for their own teaching contexts and welcome feedback (including criticism) and collaboration.
Our Mission: These resources are part of an effort to promote wider adoption of modern curriculum topics in foundational digital literacy courses—including data literacy, digital content creation, AI, and emerging technology trends—which traditionally focus primarily on computer applications. This initiative also affirms human-centric course design that doesn't rely on commercial textbooks and courseware, instead emphasizing free and open-source education and collaborative development.
More Information: To learn more about our course direction, see my 2025 EDUCAUSE presentation, Digital literacy by design: Restructuring foundational technology education for today's digital landscape
Questions or Feedback?
Have questions about these resources? Want to collaborate or provide feedback? Interested in contributing to the development of additional modules? We'd love to hear from you.
Coming Soon: Additional modules covering more topics in digital literacy and emerging technologies will be released in the coming months.