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Signature Skills
Your learning revolution starts with signature skills: essential abilities to help you build a foundation of success. Whether you are career planning, launching something new, or handling life experiences, these skills will equip you to be successful in your personal and professional life.
The approach to signature skills is integrated in your experience here at APU, helping you to elevate your digital literacy, critical thinking, and growth mindset.
Defining and Finding the Skills
Each signature skill has a definition used to focus on the elevation of each ability. Understanding how to describe the skills and how they apply to practical scenarios is key for building the foundation.
When you see a signature skills banner or icon it means the content aligns with one of the three skills. You can find these banners and icons in places like the classroom, the Success Center, CareerLink, Chapter Standards, and more.
Digital Literacy
The essential ability to understand, use, critically evaluate, and responsibly engage with digital technologies and artificial intelligence, equipping individuals for success in a technology-driven world.
Key Components of Digital Literacy:
- Information Literacy
- Technical Proficiency
- Critical Analysis of Digital Content
- Data Privacy & Security
- Ethical & Legal Awareness
Life & Career Application
- Experiences with program relevant and industry leading digital tools
- Tech curious, adaptable, AI-savvy, and ready to work smarter
- Empowers to make informed, safe, and ethical decisions in daily life by understanding how to use digital tools and AI-influence
Critical Thinking
The ability to think objectively and rationally, analyze and evaluate ideas, question assumptions, explore alternatives, and develop creative solutions to make informed decisions.
Key Components of Critical Thinking:
- Logic & Reasoning
- Creative Problem-Solving
- Analysis & Evaluation
- Questioning Assumptions
- Exploring Alternatives
Life & Career Application:
- Navigate Uncertainty
- Handle the Unexpected
- Analyze Cost & Benefit
- Make the Sale
Growth Mindset
A dynamic, forward-thinking attitude essential for success in business and personal development. It emphasizes generating and implementing innovative ideas, processes, or products that create value, fostering resilience, adaptability, and differentiation in the job market.
Key Components of Growth Mindset:
- Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Skills
- Embracing Challenges
- Persistence Through Setbacks
- Adaptability & Continuous Improvements
Life & Career Application:
- Making decisions with confidence
- Managing unexpected challenges
- Adding value to every interaction
- Assessing situations with efficiency & effectiveness
- Capitalizing on and creating new opportunities
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Together, we're embarking on a Global Digital Journey that transcends traditional paradigms and paves the way for a brighter tomorrow, on a global scale.
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