Dive Deeper into the DRAW Landscape Scan
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Dive Deeper Into the DRAW Landscape Scan

October 27, 2022

At a Glance

A brief look at six reports and accompanying resources that offer deeper dives into the findings of the Digital Resilience in the American Workforce (DRAW) landscape scan.  

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Contributors
Rachel Pleasants McDonnell Director
Shakari Fraser Director
In partnership with World Education and Safal Partners
Practices & Centers Topics

Introduction

Jobs for the Future (JFF) and World Education have developed a number of complementary reports and resources for educators who want to explore the findings of the Digital Resilience in the American Workforce (DRAW) landscape scan in more detail.  

Most notably, we offer companion reports for each of the six chapters in the landscape scan in the “DRAW Detailed Findings and Discussion” publication series. Each entry in this series features a deep dive into the themes and findings of a specific landscape scan chapter.  

In addition, we’ve put together reference documents with listings of other resources on topics discussed in the scan, including in-demand skills, instructional strategies, approaches to assessing skills, and more.  

Read on to learn about the added insights you can find in the Detailed Findings and Discussion reports for each chapter, including links to those reports and other resources.

A Holistic Understanding of Digital Skills

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This deep dive into Chapter 1 of the landscape scan, “Defining Digital Skills and Resilience,” discusses two themes: lifelong and “life-wide” learning and the digital skills needed for employment. We explored what digital resilience and digital literacy mean a bit in a blog titled “Digital Digest: Putting Digital Literacy and Digital Resilience Into Frame,” but this report offers more details to put that topic into context. 

Here are additional DRAW resources to accompany your reading in Chapter 1: 

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Advancing Access and Digital Equity

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Chapter 2 of the DRAW landscape scan and the blog “Digital Digest: Advancing Access and Digital Equity: Challenges and Solutions” examine how racial and socioeconomic gaps in access to digital tools, education, and services reflect longstanding inequities in U.S. society. This deep dive into Chapter 2 of the scan offers a more in-depth look at these issues. 

Here’s an additional DRAW resource to accompany your reading in Chapter 2:  

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Instructional Approaches and Practices

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While Chapter 3 of the scan showed that there’s been an increase in teaching of digital skills since the onset of the pandemic, a more strategic approach to instruction is needed. This deep dive into Chapter 3 responds to questions raised in learner and practitioner interviews about how to support adult learners in digital skills classes.  

Here are additional DRAW resources to accompany your reading in Chapter 3: 

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Digital Skills Content and Curriculum

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This deep dive into Chapter 4 of the landscape scan explores existing instructional content, examines how that content is used, and presents opportunities to improve the quantity and quality of resources available to learners and educators. 

Here are additional DRAW resources to accompany your reading in Chapter 4: 

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Assessing and Validating Digital Skills

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This deep dive into Chapter 5 of the landscape scan explores the practices and models for assessing digital skills and discusses opportunities to improve approaches to skills assessment and validation in adult education. For further exploration of this topic, read the blog “Digital Digest: Selecting an Assessment for Digital Literacy.” 

Here are additional DRAW resources to accompany your reading in Chapter 5:  

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Practitioner Professional Development

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This dive into Chapter 6 of the landscape scan makes the case that leaders of adult education programs must invest in professional development opportunities for their staff to ensure that educators have strong digital literacy skills, an understanding of how digital platforms work, and the ability to effectively integrate technology into teaching and learning practices. 

Here’s an additional DRAW resource to accompany your reading in Chapter 6:  

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Methodology and Addendum

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This resource offers a detailed description of the mixed-method approach that the DRAW team used to conduct the landscape scan. It also lists the interviewees, the roles represented in the DRAW Practitioner Questionnaire, and the questions from the learner and vendor questionnaires, along with a full list of the sources used in the DRAW landscape scan. 

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