Digital literacy is essential in the 21st Century workplace. Everyone needs some level of computer literacy and there needs to be provision for that. More over, people need to accept that they need to learn something new. Even though who consider themselves ‘computer literate’ need to realise that there is more to know, more to learn.
‘Just in time’ learning is touted as being the hip thing right now, many have said today’s students want to learn ‘just in time’ and not ‘just in case’. Which is all well and good when you’re in the educational environment, providing meaningful task but out in the ‘real world’ constantly interrupting a colleague to show you how to ‘glumdiate’ is not productive use of time as far as the employer goes and actually annoys the snot out the colleague.
People need to realise that upskilling takes time. Healthy, encouraging environments need to be found. When the right environment (attitude as well as physical location) is found the study showed:
- 95% of participants increased their digital information literacy
- Workshops provided supportive environment where participants able to experiment and make mistakes
- Participants helped each other out informally
- Participants learned at their own pace
- Participants more involved if skills acquired seen as relevant to workplaces or personal lives
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