AI Advantage #2: Digital Fluency skills
Own your knowledge, develop your skills.
In this second episode of the AI Advantage on the Microsoft Innovation Podcast Mark and I discussed the growing digital skills gap and why Digital Fluency is a core skill to develop when it comes to using AI.
What you’ll learn:
Digital fluency as applied skill, not passive literacy
Why we can’t binge-watch our way out of a 25 year digital skills gap
Small daily reps to beat change fatigue and build momentum
Zero Trust habits, passkeys, MFA, and smarter sharing
A practical AI workflow: research, scope, section prompts, read-aloud review
Go one level deeper
Whatever your current level of digital fluency is, you should aim to go one level deeper. Prioritise digitals skills that are relevant to your work so you’ll have opportunities to apply them.
For me personally, as I started learning how to use Microsoft Copilot I wanted to get a better understanding of Microsoft 365 and the data that Copilot uses for context when I prompt from within my work account. Based on this goal I decided to complete the Microsoft Teams Administrator training and certification to deepen my knowledge.
My next goal is focused around security in the context of AI. These are concepts that are just one step more technical than my comfort-zone so when you’re setting your own goals I’d recommend making them feel achievable at the same time as they push you to improve your technical skills.
Try this prompt
Use AI to help you learn. Here’s a prompt that you can use with your AI tool of choice to help you improve your digital and AI fluency:
I'm new to generative AI.
Act as a teacher to help me understand how I can use generative AI in my work as [your job role and industry].
I'm interested in learning about [your area of interest].
I want practical recommendations on steps I can take to improve my digital literacy in the context of generative AI.
Step me through so that I can understand what generative AI is, how I can use it, the risks I should be aware of and how I can mitigate them.
Ask me questions one at a time until you have all the context you need to provide a relevant, concise and easy to follow guide for me.
Let me know if you try it out.
You can listen to or watch the full episode here.
