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title: "Digital Literacy"
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# Digital Literacy

6 topics in Computing, in the order they build on each other.

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- [Typing Without Looking at the Keys](https://lightmysky.com/learn/computing/typing-without-looking-at-the-keys-mt_BJ_yVASyuV): Finding keys by feel instead of by eye frees a writer's attention for what they are writing. It is built by short regular practice with settled fingering, not by chasing speed.
- [Where a File Lives: Folders, Names and Backups](https://lightmysky.com/learn/computing/where-a-file-lives-folders-names-and-backups-mt_UvLO9CA3BY): Files sit inside folders inside other folders, and the path is the address that says which one. A name that describes the work, a place that makes sense and a second copy elsewhere are what make work findable later.
- [Spreadsheets: Rows, Columns and a Formula That Updates Itself](https://lightmysky.com/learn/computing/spreadsheets-rows-columns-and-a-formula-that-updates-itself-mt_iWyPF0-Abz): A spreadsheet holds values in cells and formulas that refer to those cells by name. Change one value and everything computed from it recalculates, which is what makes a sheet a model rather than a table.
- [Sorting and Filtering a Table to Answer a Question](https://lightmysky.com/learn/computing/sorting-and-filtering-a-table-to-answer-a-question-mt_6-UzZXVWwV): A table of a few hundred rows will not answer a question by being read. Sorting brings the extremes to the top and filtering drops the rows that do not bear on the question, and what is left is the answer.
- [Passwords, Logins and Keeping an Account Yours](https://lightmysky.com/learn/computing/passwords-logins-and-keeping-an-account-yours-mt_ohI6ct6tO4): An account is only as private as the way into it. Length beats cleverness in a password, one password reused spreads a single break across every account, and a second factor stops most of what is left.
- [Reusing Someone Else's Work: Licences and Giving Credit](https://lightmysky.com/learn/computing/reusing-someone-elses-work-licences-and-giving-credit-mt_SeLxugBmM7): Images, music and text found online belong to whoever made them, and a licence says what other people may do with it. Reading that licence, and naming the source, is what separates reuse from taking.