When interviewing people in Chicago, from teenagers, to parents, educators and bloggers, we asked them to think about what they wanted to learn, what skills mattered the most to them as they were using the Web, and what they would teach us if we were completely new to the internet.

The result is a list of 110 things to learn. A serious, candid and sometimes surprising list, which highlights the skills that appear most important to these 69 participants when speaking of digital literacy.

While we are getting ready to publish the full report, I wanted to share this list here, for the happiness of all.

1. Writing skills
2. How to work together
3. How to talk to each others
4. Critical thinking
5. Empower students to share issues that concerns them
6. I wanted to teach them that the internet is not a school paper
7. Be empowered to make a statement 
8. Learning coding to create
9. How to effectively utilise the internet and find content.
10. Internet is so much more than a 6 seconds video on Vine
11. How to formulate your own opinion from research
12. What to share on the web, and how to share things
13. Being responsible for their own post
14. Understanding the consequences of sharing online
15. Security and web design
16. Manage their online identity
17. Make them think critically about their web presence online
18. We put things inside of a frame, and so people think they are beautiful. Just because something is on Youtube does not mean it’s good to watch. Kids should learn that.
19. My understanding of digital literacy is not through coding
20. Critical literacy
21. Communicating ideas
22. Asking for help
23. Typing is a great skill to have
24. Paying attention to details
25. Powerpoint, Word, Excel
26. Find what they are looking for
27. Create their own thing on the internet
28. Teamwork
29. Trying to solve a problem before you complain
30. Ability to read technical information
31. Identifying gaps, computers are stupid.
32. Don’t be influenced
33. How to discover new opportunities from people around you
34. Using youtube for science projects
35. Maths
36. Problem solving
37. Self-esteem
38. Digital journalism
39. Tech is not the answer
40. Humanistic Qualities
41. Being aware of the resources out there
42. How to make a website to impact other people – the civic engagement aspect
43. How to be able to collaborate on a team
44. Understanding HTML and CSS
45. Storytelling
46. Being able to work in group
47. Coding would be nice, but its unrealistic to think everyone would be interested
48. Being able to evaluate good information from bad
49. Using Google advanced search options
50. How to fully use a tool, like google map. They don’t know they can make their own maps
51. Not necessarily to learn programming, but more to use the tools they have to create or do what they really want.
52. To me, digital literacy is being able to navigate the web
53. I teach Microsoft Office because it’s important skill to get a job
54. Time management
55. Being responsible
56. We need to teach Facebook literacy
57. Icons and jargons
58. Improve my writing
59. Use the web for good
60. Finding content
61. Have an open mind
62. Accept opinions from others
63. Learn japanese, for the anime
64. Learn to hack – but white hat kind of hacking
65. I would teach you search: it can be dangerous and helpful
66. Open chrome but don’t click on everything, they will make other tabs and it’s confusing. Click on what you need.
67. I would teach you security: watch out for who is out there.
68. I would teach you privacy and stalkers.
69. If I could learn one thing, i would learn to use the internet wisely, I dont use the internet much now.
70. I would teach you: never click on random sites, it can give you virus, i accidentally clicked on random ads and it locked my whole phone
71. I would teach you: If you make social media – don’t feed them negativity just positive
72. I would teach you:  just enjoy have fun and just be you
73. I would teach you : privacy. It’s important not to invade privacy
74. Security and passwords: important for social media accounts, you dont want people to mess with it
75. I would teach you to search for positive and good stuff
76. I would teach you Microsoft Word and typing
77. I would teach you being smart on the internet
78. I would teach you a good browser so its easy to use
79. To learn: Community participation- giving back and being part of something
80. Credibility, cat fishing
81. Collaborating and trying with others feedback
82. To search: don’t believe everything you see
83. Skills: design that is attractive.
84. Privacy: choose what you are sharing.
85. I would teach you: never give personal information
86. Never respond to people you dont know
87. Be polite and don’t talk about people online, no cyberbullying
88. I would  teach you how to make a private conversation on Kik (Messaging app)
89. I would teach you: have fun
90. I want to learn how to hack. I would hack into websites and social media, or bad persons computers, and tell the police.
91. How to organize my thoughts and make something look good
92. How to create tutorials
93. How to survive in a zombie apocalypse – Hunting would be a useful skill
94. How to focus
95. How to think better
96. If I was to teach you, first I would ask you what you like to do.
97. I would want to learn to design a game
98. I want to learn how to make swords
99. I want to learn hacking like a swift hacker. Because you can have anything at your hands like money and things.
100. I want to learn to repair any device
101. Community leading
102. I’ll teach them what to press, what to press, don’t bring the juice – juice will mess up the computer.
103. How to search – thats it. Well thats basically all I do with web: search.
104. I would teach you 1- never give your address 2- Be careful of the creeps 3- Keep scrolling
105. Keep Scrolling, means don’t get involved in the discussions, you know, they will put you in trouble
106. Internet lingo
107. I would teach you Youtube: how to watch videos
108. I would teach you all the social media. “IF you don’t learn the social media, you don’t learn the Web.”
109. I would show you how to be really good at it, typing like a pro, knowing everything.
110. Someone who is really good on the internet means someone who knows all the buttons. They know the computer.

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