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Resource for Beginning-Level Digital Literacy Instruction

June 2025
Audience
Adults
Topic
Technology

Northstar Digital Literacy has recently released a new assessment geared for beginning-level digital literacy learners. The Phone Keyboard Basics and Logging In assessment checks understanding of keyboard letters and symbols as well as other common features of a phone.

The assessment can be found here: digitalliteracyassessment.org

All Northstar assessments can be taken for free by anyone. 

Here are a couple of great FREE instructional resources for teachers/tutors working with digital literacy learners at this level:

DART: A Foundational Digital Literacy ESL Curriculum

https://tcall.tamu.edu/dart-DL-ESL-Curriculum.html

English Learner Digital Essential Skills (ELDES)

https://lyndale.org/eldes/

Screencap of the first Keyboard Basics assessment question

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