Ready to Roar: Digital Literacy
July 17, 2024
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Digital Literacy
What is digital literacy?
Understanding how to utilize and leverage technology to solve problems efficiently and ethically.
What digital literacy looks like:
- Navigating change and being open to learning new technologies.
- Using technology to improve efficiency and productivity.
- Manipulating information, constructing ideas, and using technology to achieve strategic goals.
- Identifying appropriate technology for completing specific tasks.
- Utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in appropriate and ethical settings.
- Quickly adapting to new or unfamiliar technologies.
- Effectively communicating through multiple digital platforms.
Where to build digital literacy skills as a student:
- Class projects
- Personal learning
- Student employment
- Student organization social media roles
- Professional internships
- Professional certificate programs
- Microcredentials
How employers may ask about digital literacy:
- Describe how you've gone about learning a new technical skill or digital tool quickly.
- What are your thoughts on the future of work and how technology will impact it?
- How can one effectively use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to make our individual jobs easier?
- Sometimes complex projects require additional expertise. Describe a situation when you had to request help or assistance with one of your projects or assignments.
- Can you tell me about a time when you used technology to improve a process or solve a problem?
How to put digital literacy skills on your resume:
- Utilized Excel to analyze customer user data for local small businesses as part of Business class project.
- Earned multiple Microsoft Certifications through LinkedIn learning platform.
- Trained new staff on point of sales operating system that restaurant uses to manage to-go orders.
- Quickly adapted to new software tracking system implemented within the accounting department.
- Directed social media communication plan for 200-person student organization, responsible for advertising events and recruiting new members.
- Presented research paper on the ethical uses of ChatGPT and other AI tools by high school students in Louisiana.
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