Literacy & Skills Frameworks

       

The Australian Digital Literacy Skills Framework (2020) 

The Digital Literacy Skills Framework (2020) (Figure 7) outlines a continuum of digital competency for various contexts including personal and community, workplace and employment and education and training. The Digital Literacy Skills Framework sits alongside the Australian Core Skills Framework of Learning, Reading, Writing, Oral Communication and Numeracy. Digital literacy has been added as the sixth core skill to this framework to reinforce the concept that digital literacy is part of an integrated suite of core skills that are fundamental for individuals to be able to participate in society and work (Department of Education, Skills and Employment, 2020, p. 4). The following infographic provides a synopsis of the framework.

Figure 7: Australian Digital Literacy Skills Framework. Papas, B (2021)

Assess your Digital Literacy Levels 

After examining the Australian Digital Literacy Skills Framework, you may like to determine your digital literacy level – go to  the digital literacy self-assessment tool. 

The Australian Workforce Digital Skills Framework

Gekara, et al. (2019) has summarised and adapted four broad skills categories for the Australian workforce (Figure 8). It contains eight sub-categories and 17 indicators. The subcategories for this framework are specific behavioural indicators that capture the technological, informational and contextual knowledge, cognitive and practical knowhow, competence and attitudes that are fundamental to sustained workforce productivity in the digital environment (Gekara, et al., 2019, p. 31). The following infographic displays the first two dimensions of the framework.

The European Digital Competence Framework

The European Digital Competence Framework (Figure 9), also known as DigComp, offers a tool to improve citizen’s digital competence. The framework notes that being digitally competent means that individuals need to have competencies in all areas of DigComp. The DigCompEdu framework is directed towards educators at all levels of education, from early childhood to higher and adult education, including general and vocational education and training, special needs education, and non-formal learning contexts (Redecker, 2017). It is a framework work considering in the Australian context in terms of pedagogical and professional competency development, and a summary follows in the infographic: