Digital skills for educators

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Digital Strategist, Deeper Life Bible Church Headquarters Lagos
Senior Trainer, Google Digital Skills For Africa
Project Manager, Edubridge Digital Academy, Lagos
Co-Lead, Media Team, Facebook Developer Circles Lagos
Media Team Lead, Young Professionals Forum
Daniel Oluwatobi, Afolayan (Mr.)
Digital Strategist, Copy and Content Development,
Community Advocate
Education:
B. Sc. Biochemistry. University of Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State
Orange Academy: Brand Management and Digital Strategy

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Introduction to the Internet
Digital vs Traditional
Internet vs Web
Websites vs Web Pages
Associated Terms

What is the Internet?

Traditional vs Digital

Traditional Learning
Traditional learning is the
norm in most educational
institution in Nigeria. This
involves the sharing
knowledge without any
technological input.
Traditional learning in this
context is non-digital form of
learning.

Digital Learning
Digital learning involves learning
accompanied by technology or by
instrumental practice that makes
effective use of technology with the
aim of developing student’s creativity,
critical problem solving skills and
decision making skills.
● Classroom technologies
● Mobile Learning
● e-Learning
● Augmented Reality (AR)
● Gamification

Example of Digital Learning
TV

● General learning
● Low or one way engagement
● Stale learning materials
● Only Local exposure
● Local platform for exhibition
Traditional
VS
Digital
● Personalised learning
● Interactive/Engaging
● Updated Learning Materials
● Exposure
● Platform to create

Why Digital Skills
For Teachers

Buying lots of classroom technology is
simply not enough on its own; building the
digital skills of teachers and students is a
vital step in actually benefiting from
computers in education.

Why Digital Skills For Teachers
1 | Personal branding online
2 | Connection with an “upwardly mobile”
Generation
3 | Create and share Visually engaging digital
content
4 | Enhance Effectivity and efficiency of the
learning process

● The world has gone digital. We don’t go
online, we live online.
● Over 91 million Nigerians are online.
● 7 out of 10 young Nigerians are online.
● There is a digital skills gap between
teachers and students.
● Digital Skills are in top demand in today’s
job market.

Three things will set you apart:
● Knowledge of Digital
Technology.
● Having Digital footprints.
● Being able to dispense
knowledge through digital
technology.
The Digital Teacher

● You need to build the “Teacher
Brand” Online”
● Your style, ideals, humor, voice &
content type, shape your perceived
value as an educator.
● Being authentic is critical because
the web never forgets.
● Inspire Trust through informative,
educative, advisory and entertaining
content.
Personal Branding
When you affect behaviour, You affect
performance

Implementing the
Digital Classroom

Start Point
The learner’s
experience must be
personalized using
technology so learning
is engaging and
relevant, with the goal
of maximizing each
person’s learning
potential.

Define Goals, Objectives and
Activities
Develop specific goals, objectives, and
activities/strategies that transform
teaching and learning and align to the
class strategic plan. Tech tools for all of
these activities should also be highlighted.
1

Education and Awareness for
Stakeholders
Before a digital classroom is fully implemented,
staff, students and all other stakeholders should be
consulted and educated. Acceptable Usage
Policies are a good way to define expectations,
aims and rules in order to make sure everyone
understands the associated risks and best
practices.
2

Integrate communication tools
to classroom activities
Educators can enhance the classroom experience
by breaking students into discussion groups via
Google Hangout/Meet, Zoom e.t.c.
Learning resources can be shared with every
student being able to ask questions via these
groups and communicate with educators.
3

Tools for you
Social Media
LinkedIn helps you build a professional online
presence. You get to do a lot of professional
networking and also build authority with your
posts and portfolio.
On Google+, you can keep up with the latest
trends in education and participate in lively
discussions with fellow educators.

Grammarly
Grammarly makes sure everything you
type is clear, effective, and mistake-free.
Advanced Grammar Rules,
Contextual Spell Checker,
Vocabulary Enhancement,
Plagiarism.

Enhance teamwork with
collaborative tools
A critical skill in the 21st century workplace is the ability to work with a
team. Set up groups to work on an assignment, project or create
content with lessons learnt through collaborative tools. Reflection and
discussion encourage students to consider multiple viewpoints.
Tools like Google Docs, Google Sheet, Youtube for creators, slack can
be used.
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Google Docs
Real-Time Collaboration Made Easy:
Create, edit and collaborate with
others on documents from your
Android phone or tablet with the
Google Docs app

Google docs, draw, sheets and slides are tools that
allows for word processing, spreadsheets and
presentation function to be done and saved
automatically to the cloud.
On each of these, there is room for collaboration
(multiple authors or users) and thus can be used for
various purposes in schools e.g project or
assignment writing and presentations.
Tools for you
Google Drawing

Hangouts is a tool that allows you to host live
broadcast with just a computer system and internet
connection (and maybe a webcam)
You can host guest speakers ranging from a
professional in a particular field to a role model figure
in your classroom using Hangouts where students can
take turns asking questions from the guest speaker.
You can get to keep the recording of that live
broadcast for future use.
Tools for you

Tools for you
Email
An email is an electronic mailing
system. Encourage digital activity
among your students by asking them
to submit assignments through emails.

Challenge reasoning with fun
via classroom game tools
Remember “who want to be millionaire”.
You want to ensure your students are challenging
their thought process even in an exciting
environment.
Tools like Kahoot, Fabulous, Google Forms can be
used to achieve this.
5

Tools for you
With the growing push for
creativity in the classroom as
well as the push for Higher
order thinking, Kahoot,
Fabulous and other
gamification apps can help
shape reasoning and expand
the thought process of
learners

Introduce tools that enhance
problem solving
“Just Google it”
Make Google, Youtube and other sites with
educative content friends with your students.
These tools will become textbook alternatives and
would reduce the pressure on educators.
6

Prioritize tools that helps
organize thoughts and connect
ideas
Learners get easily confused and sometimes this is
a product of a disorganised mind. Prioritize tools
that helps organizes learners thoughtlines and
connect ideas. Google Keep, Google Calender, and
some other tools can be used.
7

Tools for you
Google Calendar is the perfect way to
organize your time. Use Google Calendar to
plan your daily schedule, set reminders,
create a to do list, and collaborate with
others. If you need to set up a parent teacher
conference, use Google Calendar to help
schedule and confirm. You can even use
Google Calendar as your lesson planner.
Google Calendar

Tools for you
Google Search and Google Scholar are
great tools for research. You can get
powerpoint presentations, word
documents, videos, images, links to
various resource platforms and other kind
of resources for ultimate learning and
scholarship experience.
Google Search

Get out of the way and let
students create
Help students learn to engage in everyday research to
find information, understand it and use it in original
ways to construct knowledge and present information
and ideas. Get out of their way and watch them create
valuable and relevant contents from knowledge
acquired in the classroom. Watch their public
speaking skill grow
8

Emmanuella Used Content
Marketing to advertise her
comedy
Her comedy garnered over 6.5 million
views in 2016 which made it the most
watched video in 2016

Tools for you
YouTube is the Internet’s second largest search engine. It is an
educational resource that you should definitely consider for
free, high quality videos on every topic imaginable. From
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity to the migratory pattern of
wildebeests, you’ll find a wealth of information to support your
lesson plan.
You can also create a channel where you share custom made
video lessons with your students.

Tools for you
Social Media
Social media such facebook and twitter engenders
socialization. You can collaborate with your
students on social advocacy projects and teach
them social ethics through social listening.

Ensure strict adherence to data
privacy and protection
Data Security is key and essential in our connected
world. Ensure learners understand the essence of a
strong password and you also have a strong data
security in place for you school.
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What is a worm?
What is a trojan horse?
What is spyware?
What is adware?
This computer germ replicates like a biological viru
This computer germ arrives like a friend.
This computer germ secretly lets others spy on your
computer activities
This computer germ makes ads pop up on your screen
Some important terms for online safety
What is a virus?
This computer germ can wipe out your computer so it
doesn't function properly

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Trojan Horse:
A computer germ similar to
eating or drinking something
that makes you sick
Downloading is a natural way for a computer to
take in information the same way that your body
naturally receives food is through openings such
as the mouth.

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Tips to Keep Personal Information Safe
Secure Passwords
Unique passwords for
different accounts
Set-up passwords
recovery options
Long passwords with
numbers, letters and
symbols

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Tips to Keep Personal
Information Safe
● Ignore suspicious pages, emails, and
messages
● When entering a site through an email or
chat link you don't trust, do not enter
password
● Don't share or write down passwords
● Pay attention to browser when signing in online
● Don’t respond to requests from people
you don’t know
Identity Theft

Use only Technology tools that
are fit for classroom purposes
Due to the sensitive nature of education, there are a
number of factors educators and schools need to
consider before taking the plunge.
Customized tablet enabled with special educational
tools without access to distractive tools only should
be allowed in schools.
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Tools for you
Google classroom is a free application (app)
that educators can use to publish assignments,
create classes and make announcements to
their students.
This app allows you to communicate with your
students via email without leaving the app. You
can also engage in conversation with one,
several or all students within the same
interface.
Google Classroom

Tools for you
You can use the Google Earth app to explore the earth in
3D. This is especially useful in geography and social
studies, but can even come in handy during history
explorations. Take your students on a virtual field trip to
the farthest reaches of the globe.
Also, you’re not bound to just this celestial body when
using this immersive tool. Explore the moon, see the face
of Mars, or even zoom up close to distant galaxies far, far
away.
Google Earth

Digital learning is changing
the world. It is connecting
billions of young people to
the idea economy.
It is improving working
conditions and career
opportunities for educators.

LET’S EXAMINE
WHAT YOU’VE
LEARNT

Where to get help and support

Thank you

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