CCSLC Digital Literacy case studies
CCSLC Digital Literacy · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Caribbean Certificate of Secondary Level Competence (CCSLC) is a CXC qualification designed to certify the knowledge, generic competencies, attitudes and values that all secondary school leavers in the Participating Territories should have attained. Digital Literacy is one of the six CCSLC subjects developed by CXC specifically for the programme; the common core also comprises English, Integrated Science, Mathematics, Modern Languages and Social Studies. The CCSLC Digital Literacy case studies are 5 cases and about 3,276 words.
1One Login, 380 Students
At Hope Bay Secondary, 380 students in six forms share a single computer-lab login: username studentlab, password LAB2024, printed on a card taped beside the whiteboard. The lab has 22 machines, a technician who is on campus three days a week, and a timetable that books the room almost every period.
672 words, about 3 min2The 2030 Claim
Kadeem is finishing a Caribbean Studies project on sargassum seaweed and tourism. His teacher requires at least five sources, at least two published in the last five years, and at least one that reports original data.
548 words, about 3 min3Forwarded: A Photo of Shania
During a Form 3 netball match, a player, Shania, 14, collapses with an asthma attack. A classmate, Dev, 14, photographs her on the ground from about three metres away and posts it to a WhatsApp group of 28 students with the caption 'look what happen to Shania'.
664 words, about 3 min4Nine Days to Deadline, One Clicking Laptop
The examination officer at a small secondary school keeps all internal and CSEC coursework records - about 1,900 files going back nine years - in a folder called EXAMS on an eight-year-old laptop. Her backup routine is to copy the folder to a USB drive that lives in the same laptop bag, and to email the most important spreadsheets to her personal Gmail account.
689 words, about 3 min5Three Minutes, No Budget, Six Copyright Problems
The media club at a secondary school is producing a three-minute video for the school's 50th anniversary. It will be shown at a community event for about 300 people and posted publicly on the school's YouTube channel and Facebook page.
703 words, about 4 min