Digital Competences for Teachers: Classroom Practice

Digital competence is the set of knowledge, skills and attitudes that should be acquired by all people in order to ensure critical and creative use of ICT and digital media for the purpose of achieving goals related to work, learning and/or leisure. In order to make learning and teaching effective, all teachers should become familiar with the following digital competence areas: information (e.g. identify, locate, retrieve, store, organize and analyze digital information), communication (e.g. communicate through online tools, taking into account privacy, safety and netiquette), safety on the internet (e.g. properly manage personal protection, data protection, digital identity protection), problem solving (e.g. identify digital needs and resources, solve conceptual problems through digital means, creatively use technologies, solve technical problems) and content creation (e.g. create and edit new content (from word processing to images and video), integrate and reelaborate previous knowledge and content, apply intellectual property rights and licenses). This paper describes various methods for the implementation of digital competences in the classroom learned through the DIGICOMP portal. The DIGICOMP portal is an e-learning portal created under the project entitled Digital Competences for Teachers (DIGICOMP).