BRIDGES

Identify skills, find learning resources, and more by exploring the interactive toolkit, organized by the BRIDGES Digital Skills Framework. Click a domain to start your digital skills journey.

Foundational

These skills form the foundation for being able to perform basic operations with computers and digital devices, perform routine maintenance, and to access and operate safely in online environments.

Foundational skills required to use a device and participate online.

Gateway Skills

Understanding basic functions of a mobile device to communicate and access goods and services.

Mobile Skills

Practices that support device longevity, including physical care, protective software, and using technical support.

Device Ownership

Maintenance of practices to secure digital identity, recognize threats, and understand the broader safety implications of working in a digital environment.

Privacy & Security

Productivity

These skills focus on leveraging technology to perform, communicate, create, and share content in personal, educational, and professional contexts.

Exchanging information with others on digital platforms using various strategies to collaborate, share, and communicate.

Communication

Engaging in digital spaces to design, create, and revise content online.

Creation

Advancing workplace success and professionalism through engagement with an organization’s online tools and other supportive digital systems.

Workplace & Productivity

Independent Learning

These skills form the foundation for being able to perform basic operations with computers and digital devices, perform routine maintenance, and to access and operate safely in online environments.

Skills to apply, evaluate, and manage information across digital and physical environments.

Information Skills

Engagement in self-assessment of digital skills. Using self-reflection to tailor accessible digital environments and continue learning.

Lifelong Learning

Access to online resources that support digitalization of daily tasks and socialization within a broader digital community.

Online Life