Digital Skills for Students, 1-to-1
Using technology to learn — safely, and without shortcuts that backfire.
Digital skills for students go beyond typing. In 1-to-1 sessions a mentor covers researching a topic properly, building clean documents and presentations, staying safe and private online, and using AI tools as a study aid without outsourcing the thinking — matched to the tools the student's school actually uses.
What the student works on
- Researching a topic: search technique, judging a source, taking notes without copying
- Producing clear documents, slides, and spreadsheets
- Online safety — privacy, passwords, scams, and a sensible digital footprint
- Using AI tools to check understanding and get unstuck, not to hand in work
What tends to change
- Better-researched, better-presented projects
- Safer, more deliberate habits online
- A clear line between using a tool to learn and using it to cheat
How 1-to-1 skill sessions are structured
Every mentor adapts the details, but the shape of the sessions is consistent.
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Sessions use a real assignment the student has due, so skills are practised in context
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The mentor demonstrates, then the student does it while the mentor watches and corrects
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Online-safety topics are covered in short, concrete scenarios rather than abstract warnings
Questions about digital skills
A computer or laptop helps, since a lot of the work is producing documents and slides. Some of it — research technique, online safety — can be done on a tablet.
No. Programming is covered under Computer Science tuition. Digital skills sessions are about researching, producing work, staying safe, and using everyday tools well.
As a study aid — to explain a concept, quiz themselves, or review a draft — it's useful and sessions show how to do that. Submitting AI-written work as their own is cheating, and the mentor is clear about that line.