Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take a selfie with eTwinning: A self-assessment practice of digital skills for school staff by Roberta delle Monache and Françoise Altamura
Digitalization has strongly arrived in school communities and it can be found in many national curriculum as well. But how well are teachers and principals and all the members of school staff prepared for the digital environment change?
In 2017 a tool of reflection was developed. It is named SELFIE: Self-reflection on Effective Learning by Fostering Innovation through Educational Technologies and it is based on the Digitally- Competent Educational Organisations( DigCompOrg) conceptual framework.
Opening a group on eTwinning can give the school staff the possibility to know, share and self- assess the experience and progress in using digital skills in their school community. The results can be a joint visible picture of the level reached in terms of acquisition of digital competences both for teachers and students as well. In this way the school community can have a first recorded snapshot of the strengths and weaknesses in using digital technologies so to plan future development.
Which tools to use to evaluate, improve, progress
MeTP The first tool we would recommend using is MeTP- Monitoring eTwinning Practice.
Members of school communities are asked questions and through their answers they get a feedback that is“ a snapshot of school‘ s strengths and weaknesses in their use of digital technologies for learning.”
According to how“ digitally capable“ a school is, it can decide what it wants to improve, and build its own strategy. https:// www. etwinning. net / en / pub / highlights / learn-about-your-competence-de. htm
It has been made available by eTwinning to invite and train eTwinning teachers to reflect on the personal progress of their digital and didactic skills, but above all to keep track of their own evolution.
Since digitalization has affected schools and curricula, teachers may sometimes share their teaching and learning experiences with the digital skills with each other, but they still cannot easily see the full picture of the whole organization.
As for headteachers, they might not be so well aware of their teachers’ practice.
The first step to have a view of the digital environment change can come from setting up a devoted school group on eTwinning. eTwinning Group The second tool could be: the creation of an eTwinning group of one ' s own school, as a basis for individual skills.
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