Are you reading about and applying changes in digital technology to your business? Businesses must grow and change constantly.

Businesses need to detect and respond to changes quickly in their environment, including the economy, government policies, and consumer trends, in order to make changes. The most important factor is technological competitiveness.

The key technologies related to the fourth industrial revolution such as artificial intelligence, AR/VR, 3D printers, and drones must be understood because they directly relate to every company, government policy, and public institution.

Digital Technology Literacy Education is a workshop wherein participants hear special lectures on key digital technologies and applications in the fourth industrial revolution and examine and organize the technological changes related to their company/organization.

Are executives and employees using big data analytics tools?

It is important to predict the future of business, government, or public institutions. These insights come from information and knowledge, but to get the right information and knowledge, there must be accurate data in the first place.

If your intuition has made important decisions, it is likely that your business plans and policies will continue to accumulate. It's dangerous to trust data unconditionally, but it's even more dangerous to rely on intuition without any data.

Data should be available at the beginning of all planning processes. Organizations need to be able to read and leverage data.

In the past, data collection and analysis used to take a long time, but now, with big data analytics tools, you can do data analytics much more quickly.

Data Literacy training is a curriculum that utilizes digital tools to investigate, analyze, and express data, in order to derive the insights and conclusions you need.

All employees must now be content creators.

Content refers to an enhancement of a particular material or piece of content through various cultural processes. No matter how valuable information or knowledge is, it doesn't simply become content. It's only called content when the consumers are interested in utilizing it.

There's a lot of content resources in companies and organizations and these resources need to be made into contents to reach customers.

Digital Content Literacy Training is a program that teaches learners to transform the content resources of businesses, governments, and public institutions into content that is desired by customers and the public.

Every employee has to become a promotional expert and participate in issue management. Media is a medium that contains and delivers contents.

Businesses, governments, and public institutions communicate with consumers and the public through media channels. In the past, promotion was done only through mass media like newspapers and broadcasting. But now, we communicate directly with the public through various media, social networking sites, and even with our own personal media.

Understanding and leveraging these changes in the media environment is important. Employees need to know how to properly communicate directly with the public, produce media-specific content, and organize it into business and marketing.

Now that everyone has personal media, it's a world in which everyone can be heard through their own media.

Therefore, businesses, governments, and public institutions are bound to get caught up in a lot of false information, rumors, and issues. A single member within an organization can be the source of rumors, and there are situations in which individual employees have to respond to issues created by customers and the public.

You may be able to get help from outside experts, but now is the time for your entire organization to have a media router. Digital Media Literacy Training is a course in understanding media and learning how to use it properly.

Is your organization doing well in this era of increasing digital communication?

Communication consists of both verbal and non-verbal communication. Experts say that the proportion of dual languages is only 30 percent, which is lower than expected. In addition to words, 70 percent of communication comes from the eyes, facial expressions, and gestures.

In the past, there have been many face-to-face meetings, but digital communication such as phone calls, e-mails, and text messages is becoming much more important. As communication channels change from analog to digital, non-verbal communication decreases and we become increasingly dependent on language-based communication. As such, communication errors are bound to increase.

Digital Communication Literacy training is a process of learning digital communication in a different era, such as how to write business e-mails and report text messages. Furthermore, it is a process of strengthening future business communication skills, including video calling, digital conferencing, and real-time joint document work.

Do you still work in an analog style?

It takes dozens of people and a large budget to create one TV program. YouTube creators, however, do it all by themselves every step of the way from planning, scripting, publishing, music, editing, hosting, and so on, so it costs little.

It was unimaginable in the past, but is possible now with the help of digital technology. The ability to leverage digital technology and tools is a digital repository. People who have digital literacy knowledge can do more for less.

Since non-commissioned organizations do not have enough manpower or budget compared to commercial enterprises, one person has to do more. Also, they lack resources and are often not able to get help from outside experts.

Digital Literacy education in non-profit enterprise institutions can greatly improve work productivity.

How do you produce designs or video?

Because of non-commissioned characteristics, it is difficult to put sufficient manpower and resources into marketing even though officers invest a lot of manpower in the business and sponsorship sectors. Also, it's hard to hire marketing professionals or get help from outside experts.

With digital tools, however, you can overcome these limitations. By utilizing free digital tools, one can strengthen the marketing capabilities of aging institutions by learning big data analysis and environmental research using free survey tools, planning and production of homepages & blogs, card news using design platforms, creating infographics using artificial intelligence, creating and editing videos using smart phones, SNS advertising, and crisis management.

Digital literature brings miracles to the classroom.

When lots of people were suddenly needed after the Industrial Revolution, the number of schools and people dramatically increased.

Teachers who made students sit rows and gave indoctrination-style lectures could be very effective at teaching children to provide a correct ‘answer’, but not enough anymore for people to get the correct answer. They need to find creative new ways to solve problems.

Education should now shift from a ‘Teaching’ to ‘Learning’.

Educators feel the need for this change, but it’s not easy to since they themselves have never received education in this manner.

It's hard to change the 'content' and 'style' of education all of a sudden. It's hard for teachers to improve their skills in a moment.

However, it's easy to change the 'Tools'. This just means using videos, the internet, digital media, and tools instead of the paper or blackboards that they’ve been using.

Delivering contents through videos, allowing students to surf the internet on their own, discussion with friends, and creating things with digital tools will enable self-directed classes.

Just changing the educational tools to digital can bring many changes to education itself. Teachers' digital literacy skills can change classrooms and create future education.

How much are you using your smartpad or smartphone for your class?

While digital textbooks are being introduced and smart classrooms are spreading, there are far fewer computer rooms compared to the number of students. Even though relatively inexpensive smartpads are available as an alternative, teachers are struggling because they are not familiar with using such devices.

To address this deficiency, we developed education programs using smartphones and pads. In the smartphone/pad training course, you can learn how to do digital training without a computer but instead with a smartphone or a pad.

Parental recognition must be changed in order to change the school system.

There's an African proverb that says, "You need a whole village to raise a child." This means that parents, siblings, relatives, neighbors, etc. should all pay attention and offer affection together instead of leaving the child to school’s teachers.

Are all the adults in our village working together for the child's education? Many people say it's time for education to change. Are the adults in our village working together for this change? Or are they uninvolved and unable to make progress?

In order for schools to change, teachers have to change, but all of these issues are impossible to rectify if parents don’t agree or work together. Now, it's important for parents to think about education.

20th century teachers and parents are guiding students who are born in the 21st century by teaching them within a 19th century education system. To change this system, the teachers’ skills need to be strengthened along with the awareness of parents.

CDL, along with provincial and municipal education offices and schools across the country, has been giving special lectures on parental improvement for the past four years.

Parental coaching staff are making changes in education.

CDL selects a team of parental coaches along with local education offices such as Seoul, Gyeonggi, Busan, and Daejeon, and trains them for a set period as professional instructors for digital literature utilizing a set of on- and off-line training courses to educate teenagers both outside and inside of school.

The parental coaching staff are those who take the lead in implementing future education and making changes in education through sincere service and passion. Since 2017, about 250 parent coaches have been trained and are actively working.

CDL is creating an ecosystem of changes in public education in different regions, focusing on parent coaches.

Teenagers are digital natives. Because they have been exposed to digital technologies since they were born, they learn them quickly and easily. They learn how to use it well enough by themselves without the need to learn from someone else. The digital education that teenagers need is not a technical one.

You need to teach them how to use technology smartly rather than mechanically. So far, the time spent in the analog world is greater than the time spent in the digital world, but in the future, it will be the opposite. When teenagers become adults, virtual reality technology will become more popular and they will spend much more time in the digital world than the analog one.

Education that teaches the young people who are going to live in this world to find their dreams and the courses to help them do that are needed. They need to become a digitalized citizen to develop their digital social community.

Digital Literacy education for teenagers is no longer an option but a necessity.

If digital media are used well, they become a ‘benefit', but if used wrongly, they become a 'poison'.

Starting in 2017, the association has been providing digital media literature to 20,000 teenagers through its free semester program at middle schools.

All the information and knowledge of the world is being digitized. You can get the latest information and knowledge for free. In the past, knowledge could only be obtained through books, but now, digital media is playing that role. If you don't know how to utilize digital media, you're going to fall behind in the latest information and knowledge

But there's so much information and knowledge in digital media, and so much of it is false, that you need the ability to sift through it and find the information that is useful and correct.

It's also important to learn how to use digital media in a healthy way, since the verbal abuse or bullying that occurs during adolescence can happen in the media as well.

Let future generations become healthy digital citizens and digital humanitarians!

The civil revolution first took place in France. It sowed the seeds of modern democracy.

The history of democracy in Korea is not as long as in the Western world, but it is a country that has active communication and political participation in the digital world, starting with the digital civil revolution and impeaching the then president.

Because democracy is a political system developed in the West, there are many countries in the East that do not have democracy yet. The Republic of Korea is still learning democracy. Fake news and false information using digital technology and media are overflowing, and excessive political disputes are creating generational conflicts.

Society is evolving through the antithesis. Digital civil education is necessary to develop society through healthy conflict and move toward the future. Children need to learn healthy digital citizenship starting at a young age.

What's important is not drawing skill but building emotional connections and empathy.

Blue-collar jobs are being eliminated as the third industrial revolution automates computer factories. Now, with the fourth industrial revolution and the development of artificial intelligence, white-collar clerical jobs are being threatened as well. With advances in artificial intelligence and robots, the labor value of human beings is being reexamined.

Sooner or later, artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence in all stations, including thinking, insight, and creativity. Then, what are the human values that artificial intelligence cannot replace? They could be the emotion and feeling, which are unique aspects of human ability.

Culture and art are the roles in which human emotions and expression can shine. The arts have historically been known as low-paying jobs and haven’t been socially recognized being of much worth. But in the future, culture and art will emerge as very important roles. They are also the best use of digital technology.

Digital culture and arts education is a process for teenagers and children to learn to use digital technology and tools and to foster their emotions and sensibilities. In a world where artificial intelligence is at the center, human intelligence is an important skill and quality.

The only way to protect humanity in the digital world is through ‘empathy.’

With the use of digital media, people can communicate more quickly and over a wider range. They can make friends from other countries far away, or they can send messages to show support or empathy after seeing natural disasters that happened on the other side of the globe.

While digital technology is often used for positive purposes, it can also be used for inappropriate things as well, such as harassing others with malicious comments or confusing society with false information.

The ways in which we use digital technology are up to us. The healthy use of digital media begins with empathy.

When the analog world was the primary space of life and digital was relegated to the sidelines, it was a helpful way to ensure anonymity and engage in critical activities throughout the digital world. However, in a world where digital has become the primary space, ensuring anonymity is creating a big social problem.

It's time to learn how to empathize and communicate with people in the digital world.

Digital Literacy is a key competency for future talents.

In the future, jobs will be polarized by artificial intelligence.

People who are wise and familiar with digital technology will take advantage of artificial intelligence in order to be more productive. Perhaps they will be able to make much more money.

On the other hand, people who are not familiar with digital technology will suffer due to the expanded use of artificial intelligence. They will most likely earn less money even though they are doing more work.

The former group will have substantially more power, which means that the lives of the latter group will depend on their use of artificial intelligence.

It is up to you where you to decide which group you are going to be part of. Your digital literacy ability and knowledge will lead you to a better life.

Digital Literacy education is now a requisite area of study for college students who are preparing to enter society.

Having an eye for opportunities in the digital world, this is the Digital Entrepreneurship! Education is the process of finding the answer to the question of, ‘How do I live?’

In reality, however, youth education in Korea is overly geared toward college entrance exams. Without including self-reflection before going to college, a growing number of people experience latent adolescent growth ahead of college graduation, or even after getting a job.

The labor market is rapidly changing due to the fourth industrial revolution, which adds to the confusion. It's a time for entrepreneurship, and we aren’t just talking about start-ups. It is the time for everyone to become a giant. This is why entrepreneurship education is necessary.

Entrepreneurship education is not simply about being an entrepreneur, it is about learning the mindset required for entrepreneurship. It's important to plan to find and solve the world's problems and to think about ideas on how to implement those solutions.

In that sense, the recent burst in Makers Education is not really 'Makers' education,' but 'Making education.' It's not about raising people, but about building technological understanding.

It’s now necessary to start entrepreneurship education from the early days of adolescence in order to enable young people to discover, plan, and make progress by creating solutions for the needs of the world.

Reduce digital information gaps and digital alienation.

Recently, there are lots of stories of elderly people cutting in tickets lines and loitering in or around other people’s seats on trains. Since most ticketing is done via mobile, it’s not easy for them to get tickets, so they buy standing room tickets instead.

The older generation who is having difficulties with mobile ticketing either come early to buy tickets and wait a long time or buy standing room tickets and wander around. Older people who are not familiar with digital technology are not able to enjoy many kinds of conveniences and are often left out of the information loop.

Technology is developing for human convenience, but it is creating inconvenience for older people.

CDL is training senior citizens on digital photo management, mobile maps, subway usage, high-speed trains, theaters, and the use of health-related apps, and is committed to creating a better digital life for senior citizens.

As the quality of elderly life increases, the productivity of banks also increases.

The most inconvenient thing for senior citizens is working with finances. There are still a lot of senior citizens who go to the bank. Elders require more time to help compared to other customers, which is also a tough task for the bank since they need to deal lots of customers in a limited amount of time. More than anything else, adults feel very uncomfortable about it.

Internet financing, such as installing personal authentication that is difficult even for young people, is much more difficult for the elderly. Also, physical issues are another hardship many elderly experience when going to a bank.

Within CDL, elders can improve their quality of life and satisfaction by sending gifts to their grandchildren through digital means, using mobile cards, and trading stocks on social networks.

The association, along with the government, institutions, and the financial sector, is providing education for senior citizens' digital financial lives.