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BBRI Digital Literacy Project
By alicia | October 10, 2012
Broadband Program Director, Stuart Freiman writes:
As a follow up to all the outreach the BBRI Digital Literacy project has done over the last several months, one of the questions that has consistently been raised is that of assessment and certification. Specifically, how do we define digital literacy, assess for it and provide an award or certificate is meaningful for the adult learners as well as potential employers.
In the original BBRI Digital Literacy project plan we committed to develop a certification process but postponed that effort in favor of developing and testing the program framework, curriculum and implementation. Now that we have some critical mass around those pieces, it is a good time to come back to the issue of assessment and certification.
To that end I am proposing to get all the folks who have a stake in this effort to a meeting where we can start to frame out what this should look like for Rhode Island. As many of you already know, there are precedents and best practices developing around the nation that are addressing these issues. My goal is to leverage that work but also understand our unique needs so that we can put something in place that is relevant for the state. Ultimately I’d like to turn this into a small task force who meets a finite number of times to define the plan and brings it back to the larger group of stakeholders.
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