Digital literacy is more than just a skill set, it is a critical pathway to education, employability, and social equality. As digital technologies continue to shape learning and the future of work, educators and nonprofit organizations need practical, evidence-based tools to ensure learners can access, interpret, synthesize, and disseminate information effectively in digital environments.
A Required Skill for the Future
According to UNESCO, 67% of students lack fundamental digital skills, making it harder for them to participate fully in education and employment. Digital literacy is no longer an optional skill. Rather, it is essential for navigating a knowledge-driven, technology-rich world.
Announcing the Team4Tech Digital Literacy Toolkit
Research-based and practice-informed, this comprehensive toolkit is designed to help education-focused NGOs and educators develop digital literacy skills among learners in under-resourced communities.
Our Digital Literacy Toolkit aligns with the Team4Tech DISC Employability Skills Framework, which highlights Digital, Innovation, Social-Emotional, and Cognitive skills as core components of future-ready learning. This toolkit provides a structured way for NGOs and educators to integrate digital literacy into learning experiences, bridging the gap between access to technology and its meaningful use.
It is built on global research and evidence-based practices to ensure educators and organizations have practical strategies to support learners in developing critical digital skills.
Toolkit Contents
Inside the toolkit, you will find:
- A clear framework for understanding digital literacy, digital fluency, and digital citizenship.
- Practical strategies to build skills in information navigation, critical evaluation, digital content creation, and digital applications.
- Evidence-based teaching practices designed for low-resource, low-bandwidth environments to ensure digital literacy can be developed anywhere.
- A growing library of examples and case studies from education-focused NGOs worldwide, showcasing how these practices can be implemented effectively.
- Assessment tools to measure digital literacy growth and refine instructional strategies.
The Team4Tech Digital Literacy toolkit is designed to ensure that every educator has a playbook for supporting learner engagement with digital tools responsibly, ethically, and effectively.
By making this toolkit freely available, we aim to accelerate the impact of digital literacy initiatives globally, ensuring that no learner is left behind in the digital transformation of education and employment.
You can get started with our digital literacy toolkit by joining the Community of Practice.
Providing accessible evidence-based resources through our Community of Practice is just one way that Team4Tech is working to accelerate impact for education-focused NGOs around the world. Support our work to help us advance education for high-quality employment.