let's be digitally competent!!

Hello again guys!

In this new post I am going to talk about a very interesting topic such as online training.
As you know, nowadays we find ourselves with a generation of people who are able to learn new contents through new technologies, since new technologies offer us a facility and comfort to make new learnings adapted to our needs. For this reason it is very interesting to know this type of learning and know how we can carry it out.

Last Tuesday, April 24, I attended an online conference called Mobile Learning and Digital Competence for Education it was a webinar carried out by Maria Jesus Garcia San Martin where I could learn about the training courses for teachers offered by the Ministry of Education through of INTEF and its portfolio of Digital Competence for Education, this portfolio offers the possibility of training teachers through their courses.

This portfolio is a learning instrument to know and improve the digital competence of teachers, it serves to promote the acquisition, development and improvement of the Digital Teacher Competence. To achieve this digital competence, teachers have to do a self-assessment and the updatable record of teaching, learning and training experiences.

For this there is a Common Framework of Digital Competence which is composed of five areas of competence:
area 1: Information and information literacy
area 2: Communication and collaboration
area 3: Creation of digital content
area 4: Safety
area 5: Troubleshooting

These are divided into 21 structured competencies in six competency levels A1 and A2 (basic); B1 and B2 (medium); C1y C2 (advanced).
To achieve this goals, Aprende INTEF offers different online digital training resources.

--> MOOC: It is a type of open, massive and online training aimed at social learning through the addition, creation and remixing of content. It has an approximate duration of between 3-5 weeks. Focused on active methodologies, emerging pedagogy, peer learning, professional learning communities.

--> NOOC: Open nanoexperiences in collaboration focused on the development of digital teaching competencies. It allows participants the opportunity to explore, learn and be evaluated on a key competency, skill or area. They are open for 10 days, but the materials remain available for later use.

--> SPOOC: They are online self-learning experiences, once they are open you can access them whenever you want, since there is no specific duration and they are always available. You can get the digital badges once the objectives are achieved.

--> EDUPILLS: It is a free mobile application of self training focused on the acquisition and development of skills, skills and digital skills in a simple and fast from mobile devices. The completion of an EducaPills itinerary will award a digital badge. Through this application, you can share your achievements in social networks and mark your self-education pills in the topics that interest you.

Thanks to this type of applications we can train digitally in a constant way and above all at our own pace, since it is one of the great advantages it offers us.

I believe that as new technologies evolve today, teachers should be digitally competent and learn to handle all kinds of digital tools, since they are a very powerful resource and this can be taken to our classes.

So I encourage you to start self-assessment through your portfolio and little by little to go along with the different levels of the common framework of digital competence.

I hope you liked this post and ...

see you soon!!