Digital literacy refers to an individual's ability to use devices and consume digital media to perform tasks, solve problems, as well as communicate for work, leisure, learning and socializing. Digital literacy is becoming essential to participating not just in the labor market but also in our everyday life. To thrive in this new age of technology, you must learn how to adapt in the digital world and assessing your current level of competence is an excellent first step. With clear insights into your levels of digital literacy, you can develop goals that will motivate your interest in learning. And with an understanding of your skill level, you can plan to develop yourself by choosing the right learning experiences or courses. And you can start learning, stay focused, and develop yourself with an understanding of where your new skills fit into your portfolio of skills.

Talent Transformation’s Free Digital Literacy Quiz is designed to help you become aware of your digital readiness, suggests learning content enables you to stay relevant for the new world of work. The assessment will evaluate your skills according to the common EU competence framework in 6 areas:

Information and data literacy

This indicates your ability to articulate information needs, to search for data, information, and content in digital environments, to access and navigate between them. To create and update personal search strategies.

• Browsing, searching, filtering data, information, and digital content

This pertains to your ability to articulate information needs, to search for data, information, and content in digital environments, to access and navigate between them. And to create and update personal search strategies.

• Evaluating data, information, and digital content

The ability to analyze, compare and critically evaluate the credibility and reliability of sources of data, information, and digital content. And to analyze, interpret and critically evaluate the data.

• Managing data, information, and digital content

The digital skill to organize, store and retrieve data, information, and content in digital environments. And to organize and process them in a structured environment.

Collaboration

This indicates your ability to use digital tools and technologies for collaborative process, and for co-construction and co-creation of data, resources, and knowledge.

• Collaborating using digital technologies

The digital skill to use digital tools and technologies for collaborative process, and for co-construction and co-creation of data, resources, and knowledge.

• Netiquette

Pertains to the digital skill to be aware of behavioral norms and know-how while using digital technologies and interacting in digital environments. And to adapt communication strategies to the specific audience and to be aware of cultural and generational diversity in digital environments.

• Managing digital identity

The skill to create, and manage one or multiple digital identities, to be able to protect one’s own reputation, to deal with the data that one produces through several digital tools, environments, and services.

Digital Content Creation

This indicates your ability to create and edit digital content in different formats, to express oneself through digital means.

• Developing content

Pertains to the digital skill to create and edit digital content in different formats, to express oneself through digital means.

• Integrating and re-elaborating digital content

Digital skill to modify, refine, improve, and integrate information and content into an existing body of knowledge to create new, original, and relevant content and knowledge.

• Copyright and licenses

Skills to understand how copyright and licenses apply to data, digital information, and content.

• Programming

Refers to the digital literacy skills to plan and develop a sequence of understandable instructions for a computing system to solve a given problem or perform a specific task.

Safety

This indicates your ability to protect devices and digital content, and to understand risks and threats in digital environments.

• Protecting devices

The digital literacy skills to protect devices and digital content, and to understand risks and threats in digital environments. And to know about safety and security measures and to have a due regard to reliability and privacy.

• Protecting personal data and privacy

The awareness levels required to protect personal data and privacy in digital environments. And to understand how to use and share personally identifiable information while being able to protect oneself and others from damages. And to understand that digital services use a “Privacy policy” to inform how personal data is used.

• Protecting health and well-being

Pertains to the awareness levels required to be able to avoid health-risks and threats to physical and psychological well-being while using digital technologies. And to be able to protect oneself and others from possible dangers in digital environments (e.g., cyber bullying). And to be aware of digital technologies for social well-being and social inclusion.

• Protecting the environment

The level of awareness with respect to the environmental impact of digital technologies and their use.

Problem Solving

This indicates your ability to identify technical problems when operating devices and using digital environments, and to solve them (from troubleshooting to solving more complex problems).

• Solving technical problems

Digital literacy skills required to identify technical problems when operating devices and using digital environments, and to solve them (from troubleshooting to solving more complex problems).

• Identifying needs and technological responses

Skills required to assess needs and to identify, evaluate, select, and use digital tools and possible technological responses and to solve them. And to adjust and customize digital environments to personal needs (e.g., accessibility).

• Creatively using digital technology

The skills to use digital tools and technologies to create knowledge and to innovate processes and products. And to engage individually and collectively in cognitive processing to understand and resolve conceptual problems and problem situations in digital environments.

• Identifying digital competence gaps

Understanding one’s own digital competence needs to be improved or updated. To be able to support others with their digital competence development. To seek opportunities for self-development and to keep up-to-date with the digital evolution.

Conclusion

Given the dramatic changes happening in the world, you need to prepare for new learning experiences. Awareness and mastery of digital literacy skills will help you be successful in the labor market, accessing public services online, and in everyday life. Evaluating your digital literacy and honing new skills and sharpening the existing skills.

You are not limited by the advancement in technology. By increasing your awareness of digital literacy, you can develop your skills and become digitally ready for the future of work.

To start developing your digital literacy skills, take the free Digital Literacy Quiz now!