Digital Proficiencies at ASC
We recognize that students are more prepared to launch their careers when they have the ability to demonstrate agile thinking and active learning with digital skills and tools.
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The digital proficiencies below were compiled from various evidence-based sources* and are recognized professionally as skills for success.
Digital Communication Skills
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Create using digital-age textual formats, including audiovisual formats, and employ design elements that engage users
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Examples include videos, audio recordings and podcasts, animations, infographics, and other means of digital storytelling
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Interpret and critique visual presentations of information
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Work with a range of digital publishing or social media tools and identify audience needs
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Examples include blogs, wikis, WordPress, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Flickr
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Identify ethical dimensions of intercultural communication and engage in audience analysis
Online Collaboration Skills
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Employ a range of digital collaboration tools
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Examples of asynchronous collaboration include conversations in an online discussion forum, collaborative annotation in Hypothes.is, comments in word processing systems, and digital peer review
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Examples of synchronous collaboration include chats via Google Hangouts/FaceTime/Skype, Facebook Messenger or Google Chat, collaborating in Google Docs or Google Slides simultaneously with other users
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Co-create meaning and value user-generated content (UGC) or user-created content (UCC)
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Examples include wiki-building, social media, iReport, blogs, and Flickr
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Evaluate contributions made by others​
Analytic Tools Skills
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Use digital tools and technology-enabled-methodologies
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Examples include textual analysis, topic modeling, network analysis, GIS, creation of nonlinear narratives and arguments, collection of data, computer programming
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Employ software to create, collect, analyze, and manipulate data
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Examples include Excel, MySQL, SPSS, and ARCGIS
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Use formulae, functions, or coded instructions to analyze data
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Examples include Excel, MySQL, SPSS, ARCGIS, and R Studio
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Demonstrate agile learning
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Ability to learn continuously and apply new knowledge even in unfamiliar situations
Critical Self-Reflection Skills
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Assess one’s own digital skills
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Develop strategies for improving digital skills
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Troubleshoot problems
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Develop a method of strategies for diagnosing and solving common technology-related problems (check system requirements, clear cookies, open a new browser, restart system)
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Use creative, iterative, and goal-oriented design processes for creating, testing, and refining new ideas
Information Literacy Skills
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Assess one’s information needs and develop critical understandings of how search engines, common indexing schemes, algorithms work, how to use them effectively, and recognize their limitations
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Credit others’ creative work and ideas through attribution and copyright conventions appropriate for digital media
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Use metadata for organization and management and to find and analyze information about digital objects
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Recognize both traditional and emerging ways knowledge is created and disseminated for general audiences and for specific disciplinary ones
Cyber Smarts Skills
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Identify appropriate etiquette in digital spaces
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Analyze digital policies to make informed choices
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Develop and practice strategies for protecting data, identify sensitive information, and secure digital devices and accounts
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Understand commodification of personal information
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Identify and assess the physical, emotional, and psychological effects of technology, and develop strategies to mitigate negative effects
