Digital skills...in Mathematics teaching

1.  Digital skills, knowledge and practices
are increasingly important in enabling
us to effectively and safely understand
and interact with the digital world
 Being digitally literate allows us to
consume and produce digital content
and enhance how we operate in our
professional, academic and personal
lives.

2.  The five areas of digital skills and
practices are
 ICT /Computer Skill
 Information Skill
 Media Skill
 Communication And Collaboration
 Learning Skills

3. ICT / COMPUTER SKILL
 This refers to the ability to use digital
devices ,programmes, applications
and services in pursuit of goals.
 It covers a wide range of
competencies from basic keyboard
skills to the ability to explore and
understand new technologies.

4.  An ICT literate person is able to
choose from a variety of tools and
services to achieve an object using
most appropriate means.

5. Example practices
 Use digital devices for everyday office
tasks
 Online banking, shopping online, printing
 Using E-mail, creating and working with
documents, spreadsheets
 Copying file, e-mailing a file
 Evaluate and select a device
appropriate for personal or work use
 Choose and buy a laptop, tablet or smartphone

6. INFORMATION SKILLS
 Being able to find, interpret, evaluate,
organise, manipulate, share and
record information is vital to learning
and working in the 21st century.

7. EXAMPLE PRACTICES
 Find Content
 Organize and share resources
 Evaluate resources

8. MEDIA SKILLS
 Production of high quality media is
now relatively using widely available
sevice and software.
 Effective consumption and production
of these type of outputs requires a
sophisticated understanding of
audience, creator and message.

9. Example practices
 Awareness, experience and
understanding of a range of digital
media
 E.g. email, blog, skype, youtube, twitter,
facebook
 Understand audience
 Choose means of transmission most suitable to
target recipients
 Choose appropriate language and content
 Create media resources
 Capture with photo,video and audio
 Use text, video and audio editing software

10.  Awareness if Intellectual Property
Right laws
 Knowledge of how IPR applies to own content
 Knowledge of how IPR applies to the use of content of
others

11. COMMUNICATION &
COLLABORATION
 Digital networks increasingly play a
significant role in supporting
knowledge, scholarship, research and
learning, whilst collaborative working
supported by digital forms of
communication is now common.

12. Example and practice
 Communication
 Using email, online forums, chatrooms, social networks
 Understanding of online etiquette for different areas of
communication
 Using skype,microsoft communicator or other software
for video calls
 Collaborative
 Working simultaneously on document in online
environment
 Version control and tracking changes for document
passed between users
 Events
 Participating in and running interactive online events

13. LEARNING SKILLS
 There are similarities to general
learning skills but here there is a
particular focus on the ability to study
and learn effectively in technology-rich
environments.
 Sometimes referred to as ‘learning to
learn online’ this encompasses the
use of digital tools to support critrical
thinking , academic writing, note
taking, time and task management.

14.  A learner should be also be
comfortable being assesses and
attending to feedback in digital formats
and with undertaking independent
study using digital/digitised resources
and learning materials.

15. Example Practices
 Managing time and commitments
 Using calendars on one or across multiple devices eg
outlook, Google, Ical etc
 Understanding of how to organize meeting using
Microsoft Outlook
 Understanding and use of skype, microsoft
communicator or video conferencing as a way to save
time.
 Identifying and attending to own
learning needs
 Online tutorials, forums etc
 Online courses
 Google, You tube, Wikipedia etc

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