Progression from Digital Novice to Digital Mastery

As I have previously pointed out; proficiency is the capability, skill, and knowledge that you might have for doing something. There are general levels of proficiency: literacy, fluency, mastery. 

Proficiency is a progression.

Pedagogy is the art, science, and practice of teaching. Teachers can help one navigate from novice to literacy to fluency and ultimately to mastery. The graphic below (from this web site) shows the progression this way:


Digital proficiency is the capability to understand the change between "realspace" and "cyberspace".  One key benefit of digital proficiency is that it helps you understand the true limitations of technology.

What one needs to understand can change as the tools that become available to the learner changes. Digital proficiency at this point in time is not about things like learning to code or being able to read the XBRL technical specification.

In my view, the first step to digital proficiency is digital literacy and the ability to communicate effectively with software engineers that are building software tools that will be used by business professionals.  This is a bit of a "chicken or the egg" type of problem.  Digital literacy is helpful in imagining what you might want to ask for but working software eliminates the need to imagine by making things more tangible.  This "dance" helps to get the appropriate software constructed.

How all this will unfold is hard to predict.  But what is certain is that change is inevitable.  "Digital" makes a whole not of sense.

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