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Other types of literacy
To fully engage with today’s media environment, we also need to understand other literacies, including:
- Information literacy: Knowing how to find, evaluate, and use information effectively
- Digital literacy: Understanding how digital platforms work, including algorithms and data tracking
- AI literacy: Recognising how artificial intelligence can create, manipulate, or personalise content
- News literacy: Learning how journalism works, including fact-checking and sourcing
- Data literacy: Interpreting numbers, charts, and statistics in context
- Privacy & security literacy: Knowing how to protect your data and personal information online
These are all connected and together, they help us become safer, more informed digital citizens.