Communication

Competent Digital Educators incorporate learning activities, assignments and assessments which require their learners to effectively and responsibly use digital technologies for communication, collaboration and civic participation.

Typical activities

Incorporate learning activities, assignments and assessments which encourage and require learners:

To interact through a variety of digital technologies.

To understand appropriate digital communication means for a given context.

To share data, information and digital content with others through appropriate digital technologies.

To know about referencing and attribution practices.

To participate in society through the use of public and private digital services.

To seek opportunities for self-empowerment and for participatory citizenship through appropriate digital technologies.

To use digital technologies for collaborative processes, and for co-construction and cocreation of resources and knowledge.

To be aware of behavioural norms and knowhow while using digital technologies and interacting in digital environments.

To adapt communication strategies to the specific audience and to be aware of cultural and generational diversity in digital environments

To create and manage one or multiple digital identities.

To protect one’s own reputation.

To deal with the data that one produces through several digital technologies, environments and services.

When mastering this competence by doing the work in the lab, you should be able to say:

I encourage learners to use digital technologies to interact with other learners, with their educators, management staff and third parties.

I implement learning activities in which learners use digital technologies for communication.

I guide learners in respecting behavioural norms, appropriately selecting communication strategies and channels, and being aware of cultural and social diversity in digital environments.

I use a range of different pedagogic strategies in which learners use digital technologies for communication and ollaboration.

I support and encourage learners to use digital technologies to participate in public discourses and to use digital technologies actively and consciously for civic participation.

In the lab we will also:

Consider ways to incorporate assignments and learning activities which require learners to effectively and responsibly use digital technologies for communication, collaboration, knowledge co-creation, and civic participation.

Reflect on how suitable or pedagogic strategies are in fostering learners’ digital communication and collaboration and find was to adapt our strategies accordingly.