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Self-assessment based on the European Digital Competence Framework for Educators (DigCompEdu) and created by https://digital-competence.eu/).

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Overview

• DigCompEdu An Overview File

  Educators are role models for the next generation. It is therefore vital for them to be equipped with the digital competence all citizens need to be able to actively participate in a digital society. The European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp) specifies these competences. DigComp has become a widely accepted tool for measuring and certifying Digital Competence and has been used as a basis for teacher training and professional development across and beyond Europe. As citizens, educators need to be equipped with these competences to participate in society, both personally and professionally. As role models, they need to be able to clearly demonstrate their digital competence to learners and to pass on their creative and critical use of digital technologies.

  However, educators are not just role models. They are first and foremost learning facilitators, or more plainly: teachers. As professionals dedicated to teaching, they need, in addition to the general digital competences for life and work, educator-specific digital competences to be able to effectively use digital technologies for teaching. The aim of the DigCompEdu framework is to capture and describe these educator-specific digital competences. The DigCompEdu framework distinguishes six different areas in which educators’ Digital Competence is expressed with a total of 22 competences.

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How can Educators develop their digital competence ?

• How can Educators develop their digital competence -https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu File

  This chapter describes more in depth what it means for educators to be digitally competent. For each of the 22 elementary competences, the competence descriptor is complemented by a list of typical activities. A progression model along six levels is proposed, for which a rubric with proficiency statements for self-assessment is supplied.

• Digital revolution in the classroom - Education Talks - 28/07/2016 - 4 min 08 URL

  Esther Wojcicki is an American journalist, author, educator, and vice chair of the Creative Commons board of directors. In this interview she shares her views about digital revolution in the classroom. The interview is subtitled in 23 languages.
  

  
  

Facilitating learners' digital competence

• Information and media literacy File

  To incorporate learning activities, assignments and assessments which require learners to articulate information needs; to find information and resources in digital environments; to organise, process, analyse and interpret information; and compare and critically evaluate the credibility and reliabilité of information and its sources.  

  https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/digcompedu_en 
  

• Digital communication and collaboration File

  To incorporate learning activities, assignements and assessments which require learners to effectively and responibly use ditgital technologies for communication, collaboration and civic participation.

  https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/digcompedu_en
  

• Digital content creation File

  To incorporate learning activites, assignments and assessements which require learners to express themselves through digital means, and to modify and create digital content in differnet formats. To teach learners how copyright and licenses apply to digital content, how to reference sources and attribute licenses.

  https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/digcompedu_en
  

  
  

• Problem solving File

  To incorporate learning activities, assignemnts and assessments which require learners to identify and solve technicla problems, or to transfer technological knowledget creatively to new situations.

  https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/digcompedu_en
  

• Responsible use File

  To take measures to ensure learners' physical, psychological and social wellbeing while using digital technologies. To empower learners to manage risks and use digital technologies safely and responsibly. 

  https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/digcompedu_en
  

Digital Learnings and European Teacher Education

• European Teacher Education: boundary crossings by Francesca Caena - Edite.eu - 42 min 55 URL

  Francesca Caena speaking about "European Teacher Education: boundary crossings" at EDiTE's Final Conference: "Teacher Education and Teacher Education Policies in the European Union“, 3rd and 4th July, 2014, Budapest, Hungary.
  

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• Aligning teacher competence frameworks to 21st century challenges: The case for the European Digital Competence Framework for Educators (Digcompedu) Francesca Caena and Christine Redecker File

  European Journal of Education, Volume 54, Issue 3, September 2019,  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ejed.12345 

Digital tools - See "SAMR model: a way to evaluate how you are incorporating technology into your instructional practice" for further details