Welcome to the online-course digital competences
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This learning material is developed in the Teacher Academy for a Future in Flux (teff). With this material, we want to support teachers, trainee teachers and students in developing their digital literacy.
Teaching professions face rapidly changing demands that require a new, broader and more sophisticated set of competences than before. In particular, the ubiquity of digital devices and applications requires educators to develop their digital literacy. Teachers should have knowledge on how to use and develop digital resources and teaching aids and know their technical and pedagogical-didactical possibilities and limitations.
What are necessary skills for teachers?
The teaching professions face rapidly changing demands, which require a new, broader and more sophisticated set of competences than before. The ubiquity of digital devices and applications, in particular, requires educators to develop their digital competence.
There are many frameworks that describe the educational skills of teachers and learners for a digital world.
What do we mean with teachers, learners and digital competences?
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In the following online-course we use the word teachers and learners in general. We include in the wording teacher also pre-service or in-service teachers, teacher students and educators in universities or other institutes with an educational focus. Learners are pupils in primary or secondary schools and students in colleges, universities or other higher education institutions.
Digital competences includes also digital competencies, which refers to the ability to perform a specific task in which someone has trained somebody. Even though the word “competencies” refers to professional skills, we have consciously chosen competences in order to stay consistent with the basis of our framework, the DigComEdu.
What are the main target groups of our online-course?
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The main target groups of our online-course are pre-service teachers, in-service teachers and teacher students. Educators in universities or other institutes with an educational focus are invited to use our content, but sometimes the level will not be optimal.
On our project website we outline the frameworks we are using to create our own TEFF framework. The basis for our framework is the DigCompEdu and the DigComp. We invite you to have a look on your personal competences with the self-check called “Selfies” for teachers before you dive into the details of our framework. Click on the different areas of the teff framework in the interactive image below or use the navigation on the right side.
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In the following interactive image you can find learning material to improve your digital competences.
The level in the following learning modules is mostly basic. Sometimes you will find further informations to some topics, where you can go deeper into one topic. Are you already familiar with some of the contents provided in one module? You can skip ahead to the parts you want to familiarise yourself with or check your knowledge at the end of each learning module to receive a confirmation of participation. There you will also find opportunities to exchange tools and experiences with peers all over Europe.
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1 agile and reflectional mindset
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Teachers need a agile mindset to handle the fast change of the digitalisation and prepare a learning situation for the pupils in this rather changed society.
To start the learning modul for area 1, please click on the following link:
2 digital resources
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Educators are currently confronted with a wealth of digital (educational) resources they can use for teaching. At the same time they need to be aware of how to responsibly use and manage digital content. They must respect copyright rules when using, modifying and sharing resources, and protect sensitive content and data, such as digital exams or students’ grades.
To start the learning modul for area 2, please click on the following link:
3 teaching
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Digital technologies can enhance and improve teaching and learning strategies in many different ways. The educator’s specific digital competence lies in effectively orchestrating the use of digital technologies in the different phases and settings of the learning process.
To start the learning modul for area 3, please click on the following link:
4 assessment and feedback
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Assessment can be a facilitator or bottleneck to innovation in education. Digital technologies can contribute to directly monitoring learner progress, to facilitating feedback and to allowing educators to assess and adapt their teaching strategies.
To start the learning modul for area 4, please click on the following link:
5 empowering learners
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One of the key strengths of digital technologies in education is their potential for supporting learner-centred pedagogic strategies and boosting the active involvement of learners in the learning process and their ownership of it. Digital technologies can contribute to supporting classroom differentiation and personalised education by offering learning activities adapted to each individual learner’s level of competence, interests and learning needs.
To start the learning modul for area 5, please click on the following link:
6 facilitating learners
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Digital competence is one of the transversal competences educators need to instil in learners. The ability to facilitate learners’ digital competence is an integral part of educators’ digital competence.
To start the learning modul for area 6, please click on the following link:
This learning material is developed in the Teacher Academy for a Future in Flux (teff). The Teacher Academy for a Future in Flux (teff) is a dynamic consortium of ten leading European universities, partner universities and state and other educational institutions committed to improving teacher education.
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