As we all know, strong digital literacy is a prerequisite to success in the modern world. Digital literacy can cover a huge range of skills but intervention is often limited to basic concepts such as online safety, software navigation and finding information online. To really thrive in today’s society, however, young people need a more advanced level of digital skills. They need skills that go beyond the mere accessing of information, into realms of information presentation, analysis and communication – skills that will enable them to solve problems throughout their study and future careers with greater efficiency and effectiveness.

Karta’s Advanced Digital Literacy (ADL) course is a self-paced, fully online course through which students learn to present information, manipulate it and automate it’s analysis. All tasks are rooted in real-world problems, allowing students to really see how their learnings might relate to problems they may need to tackle in the future. ADL is a key component of our wider programming supporting youth to reach their full potential. With these skills at their disposal, they will be able to organise and analyse information to make more informed decisions about their futures, and to be more productive in whatever paths they choose to take after school.

We work closely with our partner schools to ensure students have proper device access to participate in this course, which is delivered through our own technology Karta Connect and Google’s Applied Digital Skills online repository. This programme is highly scalable, requiring minimal human input to feedback on assignments, allowing us to deliver this to hundreds of students simultaneously.