Online Life
Digital Lifestyle
A digital lifestyle means using the internet, devices, and online tools to stay connected, informed, and creative. In this short explainer, you’ll follow Angie’s journey from feeling left behind to discovering the confidence and opportunities that come with going digital. Learn how tools like online identity, social networking, and social media can help you communicate more, do more, and feel part of something bigger.
What's About
Before the internet, our world was limited by location. If you wanted to connect with others or get information, you had to be near a phone, a newspaper, or a TV. Finding opportunities or like-minded communities wasn’t easy. But now, the digital world has changed all that.
In this video, we follow Angie, someone who once felt disconnected from technology. Her life opens up when she starts using a smartphone and the internet. Suddenly, she has access to news, events, and digital communities that help her feel more informed and engaged.
We explore the three key tools that shape her digital lifestyle:
Online identity, which allows people to recognize and connect with her online
Social networking, which helps her stay in touch with people and ideas that matter
Social media, which gives her a creative outlet to share her thoughts, photos, and videos with friends and peers
By embracing a digital lifestyle, Angie expands her reach and builds new connections. She feels more in control, more creative, and more connected than ever before.
In this video, we follow Angie, someone who once felt disconnected from technology. Her life opens up when she starts using a smartphone and the internet. Suddenly, she has access to news, events, and digital communities that help her feel more informed and engaged.
We explore the three key tools that shape her digital lifestyle:
Online identity, which allows people to recognize and connect with her online
Social networking, which helps her stay in touch with people and ideas that matter
Social media, which gives her a creative outlet to share her thoughts, photos, and videos with friends and peers
By embracing a digital lifestyle, Angie expands her reach and builds new connections. She feels more in control, more creative, and more connected than ever before.
What it Matters
A digital lifestyle helps people move from feeling isolated to feeling empowered. This video helps learners understand how using online tools can unlock access to information, build meaningful connections, and create opportunities. Through Angie’s story, learners are encouraged to take the first steps toward using technology to enhance their own lives.
By the end of this video, you’ll be able to:
- Explain how a traditional (non-digital) lifestyle can limit access to people and opportunities.
- Describe how a digital lifestyle uses internet tools to expand communication and engagement.
- Understand the role of online identity in participating in digital spaces.
- Identify how social networking helps build and maintain digital connections.
- Recognize how social media allows people to create and share content with others.
By the end of this video, you’ll be able to:
- Explain how a traditional (non-digital) lifestyle can limit access to people and opportunities.
- Describe how a digital lifestyle uses internet tools to expand communication and engagement.
- Understand the role of online identity in participating in digital spaces.
- Identify how social networking helps build and maintain digital connections.
- Recognize how social media allows people to create and share content with others.
Standards Aligned
- ISTE Standard: Global Collaborator, Indicator 7a
- ACRL Info Literacy Frame: Information Has Value
Part o the course: Web Basics
Start with the essentials. Learn how digital content, links, files, and addresses shape how we experience and interact with the web every day.
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