theme 2: learning digital competences meeting 13 & 14.10.2011 lieve van den brande, european...
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3 Towards a new learning paradigm Allow more learner-centred approaches Important theme identified by the ICT cluster Lessons learned by the ICT cluster - Final Report Digital competences as core life and employability skills Leadership and institutional change for a renewed strategy on learning VISION future! Professional development – the teacher as learner at the centreTRANSCRIPT
Theme 2: learning digital competences
Meeting 13 & 14.10.2011
Lieve Van den Brande, European Commission, DG Education and Culture Contact: [email protected]
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European Reference FrameworkKey Competences for LLL (2006)
Digital competence involves the confident and critical use of Information Society Technology (IST) for work, leisure and communication. It is underpinned by basic skills in ICT: the use of computers to retrieve, assess, store, produce, present and exchange information, and to communicate and participate in collaborative networks via Internet.
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Towards a new learning paradigmAllow more learner-centred approaches
Important theme identified by the ICT clusterLessons learned by the ICT cluster - Final Report
Digital competences as core life and employability skills
Leadership and institutional change for a renewed strategy on learning
VISION future!
Professional development – the teacher as learner at the centre
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A changing context ... Different skills ?
• We are entering the age of the “Learning Society” – enabled by a rich, digital environment, characterised by advances in social networking.
– 21st century competencies are the main game and the central focus of learning
– …… and the broader promise of a learning society is emerging.
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The new learning generationchanging context – other skills ?
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Web 2.0Web 2.0
Different media lead to…
…different skills
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The new learning generation
• The 21st century digital learner is increasingly driving the agenda….. and demanding an 21st century skill set
• 21st century competencies are at the front of educational reforms in Europe and worldwide:– OECD DeSeCo / PISA – Partnership for 21st century skills – Assessing and Testing 21st century skills– EU key competencies for LLL– Europe 2020 – ET 2020
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Core message
• Digital competences are core future 21st century skills
• The citizens and workforce of tomorrow are at this very moment already at school
• New millennium learners may be digital natives but are not by definition effective learners
• Education has a unique unique role to play to teaching/learning the confident, critical and creative use of ICT
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The reality – the learners
Technology use is connected to a significant increase in performance However, no matching evidence regarding use informal education
Not all pupils have the same approach to technology use Second and third digital divide emerging
New millennium learners may be digital natives But are not by definition effective and critical learners
Would the results be different if we could raise school use?Eurydice, 2011
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The reality – teachers and trainers• Teachers are keykey intermediairs• Teachers have to be confident,
digital competent and have the necessary ICT didactic skills
BUT ICT is pedagogically under-used crucial importance of teacher
skills development
Teachers are the best coaches …. Eurydice, 2011
OECD - TALIS, 2010
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Increasing digital competences Work in progress at DG EAC
• Development of better descriptors for digital competence as a complement to the Key Competences Framework
• Development of an ICT skills supplement to EUROPASS
• Development of better ‘measurements’ for the use and impact of ICT in education
• Collaboration with DG INFSO - Digital Agenda