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The need for digital literacy is great. As the Issue Brief: Digital Literacy from World Education, Inc. (2020) explains, "A National Skills Coalition study concerning the foundational skills required to perform entry-level service work reported that 73% of workers in these positions lacked digital problem-solving skills (Bergson-Shilcock, 2017, p. 9) and “... two out of three workers who struggle to use computers are using them on the job anyway” (BergsonShilcock, 2017, p. 16).

The picture becomes more concerning when expanding this employability lens to middle-skill jobs, jobs that require less than a bachelor’s degree and yet generally pay a living wage. According to Burning Glass Technologies, these jobs represent 46% of current labor demand, and 82% of them require digital skills like mastery of spreadsheets and word processing. Furthermore, the study found that middle skills jobs that require use of digital technologies pay more and provide a career pathway into middle- and high-skill jobs (Burning Glass Technologies, 2017, p. 3)".

The following resources contribute to providing educators with resources to support their learners in developing digital literacy skills to fully participate in economic, civic, work, and daily life in the world of today and tomorrow.

Digital Literacy Framework

The Digital Literacy Framework for Adult Learners written by Jamie Harris and Bayo Adetunji (Maryland Department of Labor) "takes a digital literacy framework and shows instructors how to apply the framework in planning and implementing instruction.

For each of the lesson activities, the materials and resources needed to implement the lesson activity are provided, along with the steps for the digital literacy portion of the lesson activity. Each lesson activity includes objectives, competencies and/or standards materials/resources, instructions, extension activities, and key observations. Some of the lesson activities have helpful features such as vocabulary to pre-teach, ways to adapt the lesson activity to virtual settings, and more detailed instructions.

It is important to note that all instructors will need to adapt the lesson activity to their students and their subject. For the most part, the lesson activities describe the digital literacy portion of the lesson, not the content/subject and the scaffolding that students will need".

Click the hyperlink to access the Instructor Implementation Guide for the Digital Literacy Framework for Adult Learners

Prompt Engineering for Beginners

Composing clear prompts for generative AI applications such as Chat GPT will increasingly become a critical skill for all learners and professionals. Human-I-T provides a Guide on Prompt Engineering for Beginners.

"One of the most powerful yet accessible ways to harness AI is through practicing the digital skill of prompt engineering – the process of designing effective prompts to get the most out of AI language models. At its core, prompt engineering is about learning how to communicate with AI to direct it to perform useful tasks for you and your organization. By providing the right instructions, context, inputs, and output formats, you can steer large language models to generate relevant, insightful content and analysis to support your mission."

Human-I-T's Guide covers the following topics with examples of correct and incorrect approaches to prompt writing:

• Specific Prompt Engineering Methods and Frameworks

• Prompt Engineering for Analytical or Complex Problem Solving

• Prompt Engineering for Creating Structured Reports or Outlines

• Prompt Engineering for Marketing or Customer Service Messages

Prompt Engineering: Revolutionizing Problem-Solving in Engineering

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"Those who wish to succeed must ask the right preliminary questions."

-Aristotle  

Question

How might you ask better questions? 

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