Problem Solving
Competent Digital Educators incorporate learning activities, assignments and assessments which require learners to identify and solve technical problems, or to transfer technological knowledge creatively to new situations.
Typical activities
They incorporate learning activities, assignments and assessments which encourage and require learners:
To identify technical problems when operating devices and using digital environments, and to solve them.
To adjust and customise digital environments to personal needs.
To identify, evaluate, select and use digital technologies and possible technological responses to solve a given task or problem.
To use digital technologies in innovative ways to create knowledge.
To understand where their digital competence needs to be improved or updated.
To support others in their digital competence development.
To seek opportunities for self-development and to keep up-to-date with the digital evolution.
When mastering this competence by doing the work in the lab, you should be able to say:
I encourage learners to solve technical problems using trial and error.
I encourage learners to transfer their digital competence to new situations.
I implement learning activities in which learners use digital technologies creatively, expanding their technical repertoire.
I encourage learners to help each other in developing their digital competence.
I use a range of different pedagogic strategies to enable learners to apply their digital competence to new situations or in new contexts.
I encourage learners to reflect on the limits of their digital competence and help them identify suitable strategies for further developing it.
In the lab we will also:
Consider ways to enable learners to seek out different technological solutions to a problem, investigate their benefits and drawbacks and critically and creatively come up with a new solution or product.
We will critically reflect on the suitability of our pedagogic strategies to foster learners’ digital competence and expand their repertoire of digital strategies, and adapt our methods accordingly.