Digital Literacy · Grade 5

Skills

• Uses a word processor to produce a properly formatted document.
• Builds a simple spreadsheet with a formula that adds a column.
• Makes a short presentation or video that communicates something to an audience.
• Solves a routine problem alone before asking: restart, reconnect, check the obvious.
• Recognises a sponsored result and an advert dressed up as an article.
• Knows images, video and voices can be faked, including convincingly.
• Knows an AI assistant can state a falsehood fluently and confidently, and checks anything that matters.
• Credits a source when using someone else's words, pictures or ideas.
• Writes a message they would be comfortable having read aloud by anyone.
• Asks before posting a photo of somebody else.
• Recognises a manipulative design: an infinite feed, a streak, a loot box, a countdown.
• Notices when they have been on a screen too long, and stops themselves.
• Builds something genuinely their own: a game, an animation, a quiz, a device.
• Writes a few lines in a text-based language, and reads an error message instead of panicking.
• Explains, in outline, what happens when a web page is requested.
• Knows a computer only does what it was told, and that bugs are the programmer's doing, not the machine's.