Digital Fluency: Integrating Future-Forward Skills Into Every Career Pathway

Jobs are shifting. As technology proliferates across the employment landscape from automation to artificial intelligence (AI), every job across every sector—from white collar to blue collar—requires technical capabilities. This paper from Digital Promise's Center for Learner Pathway Innovations explores the concept of digital fluency, as coined by Jennifer Sparrow, and expands its five defined components to include cybersecurity, grounded in their rapidly scaling work to design, implement, and support credentialed cybersecurity pathways across the country. Read to learn why digital fluency is a must have for every career pathway in today’s society.