Digital Skills and Readiness

Digital skills are what is needed by individuals to use the internet. These skills include finding, evaluating, using, sharing and creating content using a computer. 

Digital skills are essential to function in today’s digital world, which prioritizes the internet as a place for sharing information, distributing resources, education, quality of life services and civic participation. In fact, almost every career requires some basic digital skills including:

• Effective online information research.
• Using email.
• Navigating the internet safely.
• Word processing and creating and managing electronic documents. 
• Using video conferencing and other meeting tools.
• Basic device management like creating folders, connecting to the internet, installing software updates and keeping devices safe.
• Using common tools and online applications for activities such as e-commerce, banking, telehealth and more.

Ensure training is available in your community. Below are some resources that provide self-paced training:

• Driveyourlearning.org
• GCFGlobal.org
• Google Digital Garage
• Digital Learn – Free courses to learn anything about computers
• Digital Literacy Curriculum for K-12
• Free Applied Digital Skills – Google for Education
• Live, Virtual Classes for Seniors