February 12, 2012
Blog ArchivesDigital natives, digital competence and getting the right candidate into the job.
The goal of digital competence: be skilled at finding, evaluating, creating and effectively using information and transfer these skills to the workplace and personal life. Competency areas: visual literacy, new media literacy, information fluency, and information competency.
Assessing Digital Natives for their Digital Competencies – What’s the score? Practical Applications of Research
Being familiar with computers and internet does not entail being able to use them in a competent way… living in a digital environment does not reliably imply being digital competent. What are the results when Digital Natives are assessed against Digital Competencies?
Digital natives are NOT all tech experts – guidance for training the ‘net generation at work
We can’t look at our learners as either in or out of a highly technically skilled group based simply on their age. As a learning and development professional, you know how to assess learners skills, knowledge and attitudes – and looking at their age isn’t it.












