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Module 1: Digital Education: The Myths and Facts
- Video Overview of Module 1
- Learning Objectives
- Map Your Digital Day Activity
- How digital tools support the typical characteristics of adult learners
- ACTIVITY- Download Discover’s “Typical characteristics of Adult learners” and see which traits apply most to YOUR students!
- ACTIVITY- Download Quiz and use Kahoot to turn it into an interactive quiz for your participants!
- Lesson Activity Part 1- Group Research Exercise Using Diigo!
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Module 2: Digital Inclusion: How the Design and Use of Digital Technology Can Promote Equality in Education
- Video overview of Module 2
- Learning Objectives
- What is digital inclusion, why is it important?
- How can we promote digital inclusion?
- ACTIVITY: Download Digital Inclusion Case Study Guide
- TRUST- Overcoming the phycological barriers of the digital world
- MOTIVATION-Supporting Adult learners driven by a specific purpose!
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Module 3: Innovative teaching...resources and practices that enhance learning and teaching!
- Video Overview of Module 3
- Module 3’s downloadable learning objectives
- Why do we need Innovative teaching methods?
- The role of the educator
- The flipped classroom teaching method!
- Problem based learning as an innovative teaching method!
- Jigsaw technique as an innovative teaching method!
- Inquiry based learning as an innovative teaching method!
- ACTIVITY: Download DISCOVER’s learner feedback worksheet!
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Module 4: Mobile Learning
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Module 5: Games and learning
- Video summary of Module 5
- Module 5’s Downloadable learning objectives
- Introduction to Game based learning
- The Advantages and disadvantages of game-based learning
- Game based learning in practice- how to get started!
- Examples of Adult learning games!
- Lesson Activity Part 2 – Group Presentation Activity using Powtoon
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Module 6: Learning Spaces AND Collaborative virtual environments
What is digital inclusion, why is it important?
Digital Inclusion can be defined as “having the access, skills and motivation to confidently go online to access the opportunities of the internet.” (The Digital Skills and Inclusion Policy paper 2017). Therefore, digital inclusion is about ensuring people are able to use the internet and online technologies to meet their needs. This includes:
- Infrastructure – being able to afford or have access to a device (whether a mobile phone, tablet or computer), as well as being able to afford or have access to the internet through broadband, Wi-Fi or mobile data.
- Skills – having the ability, confidence and digital skills to use digital devices and the internet.
- Accessibility – having access to services that are designed to meet users’ needs, including for individuals with disabilities that require assistive technology to get online.
Of recent, it appears that lack of digital skills isn’t necessarily the biggest barrier for people, rather the lack of infrastructure and services not being designed to meet users’ needs. (NHS 2020)
Well two thirds of jobs need digital skills of some kind, yet 52% of the UK workforce are not yet fully digitally enabled, meaning they risk being excluded. COVID 19 has presented a crucial time when digital can turn isolation into inclusion, especially as 44% of those offline are under the age of 60 (the working pool).
A lack of digital skills and access can have a huge negative impact on a person’s life, leading to
- poorer health outcomes and a lower life expectancy,
- increased loneliness and social isolation,
- less access to jobs and education
Digital exclusion truly is a growing emergency for some of the most vulnerable individuals across Europe. Digital exclusion correlates strongly with other inter related issues such as unemployment, low pay and educational attainment. The effects of the pandemic has highlighted and accelerated the need to urgently tackle digital exclusion, in particular the issue of data poverty, i.e. affordable access to connectivity and specific sites free of charge (i.e. zero rates sites such as welfare sites or NHS for example). Digital inclusion is a path to remedy this.
ACTIVITY- Click HERE to learn more about the negative impact of low digital skills
