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Applied Digital Skills is a great resource from Google for Education that offers a wide variety of digitally-focused lessons to integrate in both in-class and distance instruction. Its library includes over 100 video-based lessons spanning various topics and skill sets. You can browse the lessons by audience (late elementary, middle school, high school, or adult learners), digital tool (e.g., Docs, Drawings, Slides, Sheets, Meet, Sites, etc), and by topic (e.g., Art, Digital Citizenship, Science, Math, Social Studies, Computer Science, etc.).
With our digital teaching tools and lesson plans, teachers can focus on helping students gain essential digital skills. Discover our free lesson plans.
Via Nik Peachey
After we explored Google resources to help you integrate digital skills lessons in your online instruction, in today's post we are sharing with you another equally important resource from Google for Education to help you engage your students in a wide variety of learning activities using digital skills. Digital Art and Games features 10 digital skills lessons designed specifically to unleash students' creative thinking. The lessons are accompanied by a number of helping materials that include lesson plans, rubrics, video materials, and many more. .
PwC Ireland’s chief digital officer, Joe Tynan, discusses the company’s new digital fitness assessment app and the importance of closing the digital knowledge gap. Digital awareness has never been so important. More people than ever are now working from home and communicating online, and the current crisis has highlighted the dangers of misinformation, which has never been easier to access. Becoming more digitally fit can help people at any technical level to improve their digital literacy and awareness in this challenging time. With this in mind, PwC has released its own digital fitness app for free
Will you be involved in delivering the roll out of new courses to support the upcoming Essential Digital Skills (EDS) entitlement for adults aged 19 and over?
Our new professional development programme commissioned by the Department for Education and designed by staff from the sector will help you to prepare, as well as build your digital skills and confidence.
In a digitally focused world, education is getting more and more digitized pushing us, teachers and educators, to re-conceptualize what it really means to be a teacher in the 21st century. Whether you are a technological determinist or an instrumentalist, technology has become an essential force shaping much of our teaching and pedagogical practices.
Learning and Skills for the Digital Era This forms an important part of the Europe 2020 agenda and its various flagships and policy initiatives. JRC research in this area started in 2005 and is focused on how to make better use of ICT for rethinking learning, for innovating education and training and for addressing new skills requirements (e.g. digital competence) to generate growth, employment and social inclusion. More than 20 major studies have been undertaken and more than 100 different publications released. JRC research in 2016-2017 is structured around three main strands: - 21st century Skills and Competences
- Innovating and modernising Education and Training
- Open Education
JRC's Learning and Skills projects cover a wide range of studies: On citizens and learners (micro), on teachers and educators (professionals), and on educational organisations (meso) and societies (macro). As indicated in the image below, projects are developed in collaboration with sister Commission services (Education and Culture, Employment, Justice).
With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and cloud computing, the nature of work is transforming. The workplace is changing, raising fundamental questions about what it means to be a worker, and how to have a fulfilling career. While many focus on the possible downsides of these changes, like whether AI will displace millions of workers, we’d like to reframe the conversation and focus on the skills and workforce necessary for the (present and) future of work.
Research by Gov.uk indicates that employers struggle to fill about one-third of vacancies due to a lack of the right digital skills amongst applicants and although evidence suggests that the UK does have a strong digitally enabled workforce; there still remains a digital skill shortage.
Currently the term “digital skills” covers a wide array of skills and knowledge, making it difficult to design methods to address specific needs. In order to narrow the gap, it is crucial that individuals possess the basic ‘foundation’ for acquiring digital skills that are needed in this increasingly technological society.
Earlier this month, the UK government announced £13.5 million of new funding for 2,500 artificial intelligence (AI) and data science conversion degrees, and 1,000 scholarships for people from underrepresented groups in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM) sector.
Potential applicants will hold a degree in other disciplines and scholarships will be made available to support applicants from diverse backgrounds, including people returning to work after a career break, and under-represented groups in the AI and digital workforce, including women and people from ethnic minorities.
This video clip is a bit old, but I still like using it to spark conversation on why we need to teach differently in today’s classrooms. When we have almost instant access to factual information, we shouldn’t be asking students to simply recall those facts. The Teaching Innovation Progression Chart highlights Research and Information Fluency as one of the key strands for student success. In a student-driven classroom, teachers should be modeling strategiesto guide student investigation, designing challenges that promote synthesis of resources to address an authentic task, supporting students as they acquire, evaluate, and apply information, and facilitating and formatively assessing authentic tasks where students are engaged in research and using information fluently. In these classrooms, we should see students constructing questions to guide research, selecting the most appropriate digital tools and information sources, assembling and synthesizing information to address authentic tasks, and using tools to powerfully display and interact with information.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Our survey of more than 37,000 students (14,292 from further education) shows more than two thirds of further education (FE) students are turning to each other and their lecturers for technical support, overlooking online help for their digital queries
Web literacy” describes a critical set of skills needed to participate online, including how to navigate the internet, understand basic web mechanics, and safely share information. Using materials developed by the Mozilla Foundation, the Digital Skills for Digital Librarians project piloted web literacy skills training in eight public library systems and one graduate program in order to equip library staff with the knowledge needed to meet the growing digital needs and desires of their communities. This evaluation reports on the successes and challenges faced by the pilots as they adapted the web literacy curriculum to serve the needs of their public library staff and patrons.
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This session from Europeana 2020 explores what digital literacy really is and how it is different from digital skills.
In March 2020, UK higher education embarked on a sudden shift to digital learning. In the vast majority of cases, it wasn’t a designed and fully realised transformation of teaching and learning. It was an emergency response to an unprecedented situation that relied on upskilling staff rapidly enough to enable them to deliver the remainder of their courses, and assess them, in as effective and equitable way as possible. The extent of this digital shift, and the tools, techniques and platforms used, varied not only between universities but also within them, depending on the demands of different departments and the confidence and capabilities of the staff.
Digital and numeracy skills are amongst those that are most sought after by employers, and can help you progress in work and boost your job prospects. Digital skills can be anything from using social media and staying safe online to coding, programming or digital marketing.
There is a belief that younger people are fully engaged with the digital world. But I am currently leading a project exploring people’s knowledge and use of online data, and the preliminary findings from our research has found that data literacy is not uniformly high among younger people, as is often assumed. Instead, some young people have very low levels of data literacy.
The ‘Digital Roadmap’ launched by the Pathways for Prosperity Commission this week correctly emphasises the need to put people at the centre of the digital future by equipping them with foundational skills in literacy and numeracy, digital skills and ‘soft skills’ such as communication, management, analytical thinking and problem-solving. Lack of relevant skills in the digital age can limit opportunities for African countries to make the most of digital technologies and catch up.
Via Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle, juandoming
Digital literacy requires competence and confidence. Take the quiz to discover which digital super-power gives YOU the confidence to shine.
Do you feel unqualified in this digital world? Well, you are not alone! Because research suggests that many people also feel this way. Digital skills are extremely valuable, especially in the highly-demanding world we live in today. Whether you want to kick-start a career in a fast-growing tech field or you are seeking to reskill, crossskill, or upskill, here are some valuable top tips that are sure to help advance your career in this digital world.
Developed through a collaborative process between researchers and practitioners, this toolkit is a curated cross-section of resources that relay knowledge and best practices in achieving real success in youth-centered digital learning. The Reclaiming Digital Futures toolkit is a curated cross-section of resources that relay best practices in youth-centered digital learning.
In the future 9 out of 10 jobs will require digital skills – but today 44% of Europeans (aged 16 to 74) do not have basic digital skills. Helping people develop their digital skills is both a key goal for public libraries across the EU and a Google priority. Public Libraries 2020 (PL2020) and Google are excited to partner with and equip libraries with resources to support and train their local communities. “Libraries Lead with Digital” is a toolkit created by librarians, for librarians, that will include online resources and lesson plans to help people stay safe online, grow their digital skills, and explore coding.
New first year students at the University of Sheffield were invited to play our fake news game as part of library induction and the response was incredible. So much so that Daniel and Manoj gained a perfect score! The game, based on our Fake News tutorial, was devised by University of Sheffield librarians Cateriana Sciamanna and Liam Bullingham.
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