ICT/Digital Literacy – Today, everyone needs a basic
understanding of ICT and how to make productive use of it,
just to be good students, workers and citizens. Teaching
people how to be competent basic users of ICT technologies is
an important role of ICT education, so they will be successful
in their academic and work careers, and so they can
efficiently participate in modern technical society. As part
of its study validating U.S. Department of Labor IT
Competency model content in California, MPICT determined
with 99% confidence California employer agreement with the
following statements regarding Digital Literacy:-
“Information and communication technologies (ICT) competencies are increasingly important for most of our employers, regardless of role. If there was an agreed-upon standard for "digital literacy", or ICT competencies expected of all workers, regardless of workplace role, my organization would value a credential based on that standard as a way of validating ICT skills for non-ICT workers.” (70.5% agree or very much agree)
