All About Digital Literacy
Here at The Code Zone we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to develop key digital literacy skills! Read on to find out more about how we encourage our members to stengthen their tech knowledge...
Last year (2024) Lloyds Bank released a study that included things like the fact that 16% of adults don’t meet the foundation level of essential digital skills. This includes things like: browsing the internet, opening and saving a word document, and using search engines to discover/learn new things.
Here at The Code Zone, we think that everyone should have at least a base level understanding of technology (especially as you’ll struggle to find a job nowadays that doesn’t have you answering at least one email!)
How we encourage members to build digital literacy skills
In our clubs, members will practice many skills to do with technology, even beyond coding. Knowing how to use your keyboard and mouse to navigate our website and search projects for the things we need are key things that are needed in this digital age no matter what you are doing!
One thing that is becoming increasingly common nowadays is the online form, be it for doctors appointments, job applications, or even signing up for new services! A base level of computer literacy is paramount to navigating these forms and getting the help that many might need.
This, alongside things like being able to connect to a new wifi network are things that fall into the banner of digital literacy, and are things that are super important to learn.
Digital literacy in the age of AI
A big thing nowadays is AI, a good digital literacy can help you understand how and why it works. This also allows you to think critically of these new technologies and form your own opinions on their use.
Our STEM certified mentors take pride in their digital literacy and are always more than happy to impart new information to our members to help them improve in their day to day life!
If you would like your child to take the next steps towards being comfortable in this digital revolution, sign up for a free taster session today!
Who wrote this
We run coding clubs for children aged 6 to 16, so the guides here are written by the mentors who teach them rather than by a marketing team. Live online clubs are open to children anywhere in the UK, and our in-person clubs run across Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.
A live club is one hour a week, in a group of no more than six, with the same DBS-checked, STEM-certified mentor.
Children build their own games rather than working through a set course, starting in Scratch or MakeCode and moving to Python and TypeScript when they are ready. More than a third of our members are autistic or have ADHD, based on what parents tell us when they join.
Mentors write a note on every child after every session, which is how we know when somebody is ready to move up a level or would rather stay where they are. Levels move down as readily as up. Nothing is forced, and staying put is a perfectly good outcome.
In 2026 we were ranked second in the UK in Club Hub UK’s Top 100 Children’s Activity Providers, scored by five independent judges on safeguarding, inclusivity and community impact, and in 2025 we received the Autism Inclusion Award from the National Autistic Society. Over 1,000 children are enrolled.
More like this
The blog is in two halves. Guides are the evergreen explainers written by the mentors who teach the clubs, covering the questions parents actually ask: what comes after Scratch, how to support a coding-mad child when you cannot code yourself, and what works for autistic and ADHD children.
Club news is the other half, and it is where posts like this one live: game jams, Minecraft builds and weekly roundups, written up by whoever ran the session. Neither is marketing. If you want to know what an hour actually looks like before you book anything, club news is the more honest read of the two.
The first session is a free taster and we do not ask for card details. Book a free taster session, see what it costs, or read about support for neurodivergent children.
