Planning to Build a New Digital Skills Curriculum? Read This First

Supporting digital skills building is a complicated aspect of digital inclusion work. Luckily, there is no need to build an entire curriculum or even lessons entirely from scratch. Seasoned digital inclusion practitioners have constructed hundreds of shared lessons, lesson plans, and digital skills frameworks. When planning a digital skills program, work with your community of learners to determine what they would like to focus on, and ensure these are prioritized within your framework. Planning your curriculum can be as simple as building or adapting a framework, identifying gaps in available resources, and finding ways to fill them, whether that is seeking out a specific resource, or developing it yourself.  Resources that can be leveraged to create your curriculum are as follows, or can be found here:

• Digital Resilience in the American Workforce - a series of briefs to help navigate many digital skills frameworks created by local governments and organizations.
• Using Data To Advance Digital Skills: A State Playbook  - a guidebook to assist in guiding your approach to building a digital skills framework and digital literacy strategy.
• Digital Skills Library - aggregate library of digital skills serves as an excellent example of how to align lessons and methods from a variety of resources to create a comprehensive digital skills curriculum
• Northstar Digital Literacy - a  set of digital literacy skills assessments complete with certificates of achievement