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.
? But HOW can we support teachers in this change?
DIGI ENE Initiative: “Developing and Sharing Excellence on digitalisation of teaching and learning” has been launched in the context of the ETF Network of Excellence with the objective to keep learning from each other, inspire, engage, discuss, create network, collaborate, exchange best practices. The Initiative should support creation and transfer of sustainable, cost and time effective solutions to support teaching & learning process.
? The Focus of the Initiative “Developing and Sharing Excellence on digitalisation of teaching and learning” is on learning process as an activity and mindset not a "place".
But what exactly?
The Initiative is build of the 2 main components:
- Webinars concentrated on 3 thematic areas:
- Digital pedagogies
- Digital content & tools
- Teachers’ Digital Competencies
- Development projects: small-scale initiatives addressed to CoVEs members of the ETF Network for Excellence (ENE). If the aim of the webinars is to explore new opportunities, the objective of the Development projects is to materialize the change: piloting new tool/approach/methodology by selected CoVEs.
?? The importance of Teachers’ Digital Competencies
The webinar dedicated to the topic of “Teachers’ Digital Competencies” was organized on 11th October 2022 (12:00-15:30 CEST). The event raised a big interest gathering more than 100 participants from different ETF partner countries.
Objectives:
Organising the webinar about “Teachers’ Digital Competencies” we tried to:
➡️ support teachers to develop their digital competence &
➡️ open a platform for discussion and transnational learning among members of the network &
➡️ present self-reflection tool of teachers’ digital competence & schools’ readiness in relation to digital technology &
➡️ present teachers’ collaboration & peer-learning methods accelerating digital innovation in schools.
Agenda of the events included the following presentations:
- Opening and explanation of the objectives - José Manuel Galvin Arribas - Filippo Del Ninno, ETF
- Presentation of the DigCompEdu framework & Introduction to the SELFIE Model for teachers - Anastasia Economou, Georgios Kapsalis, JRC
- Critical digital literacies for teachers and educators - Darren Mundy, University of Hull, UK
- Digital competence advancement in Estonia - Kerli Požogina, HARNO Agency of the Ministry of Education and Research, Estonia
- Fostering the adoption of whole-school level digital innovation in schools - Kairit Tammets, University of Tallinn, Estonia
- Case history from Georgia - collaboration between two schools in developing digitalpractices - Tatia Nakashidze-Makharadze, BSU, Georgia
- A brief summary about the current situation regarding the ongoing development projects, Filippo Del Ninno, ETF
If you missed the webinar you can find below:
? all presentation here
? the recording: will be availabe very soon
We strongly believe that presented approaches and best practices stimulate reflection on the effective technology use inside your school/organisation.
We will keep you updated about the next thematic webinars, which will be dedicated to “Digital content & tools in teaching and learning”.
For more information on DIGI-ENE initiative, please click on this link:
- Digitalisation in education and the role of Centres of Excellence | Open Space (europa.eu)
- VOCATIONAL EXCELLENCE PLATFORM OF GOOD PRACTICES -ETF NETWORK FOR EXCELLENCE | Open Space (europa.eu)
For more information please contact:
Filippo de Ninno: Filippo.Del-Ninno@etf.europa.eu
Roberto Righi: rrighi@stepseurope.it (Community Manager of ETF Innovative Educators)
Please log in or sign up to comment.