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Tag Archives: digital literacy skills
Digital capacities and distance education in times of coronavirus. Insights from Latin America
By Nicolas Buchbinder, GEM Report Fellow Due to the coronavirus, schools have closed their doors in almost the entirety of Latin America. This is a situation with no precedent in the region. Countries have implemented different policies to continue the … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, ICT, STEM, Teachers, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, digital divide, digital literacy skills, ICT, technology
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The Peruvian education system: seeking quality and equity during COVID-19 times
By Milagros Lechleiter and Rosa Vidarte, GEM Report Peru was the first country in Latin American to decree the mandatory social distancing of its population on March 16, only 10 days after detecting its first case of COVID-19. The quarantine … Continue reading
Covid-19: Where’s the discussion on distance learning training for teachers?
A lot of the discussion, and rightly so, has been about the effect of school closures on students. Education, as they know it, stopped from one day to the next. But what about teachers? Just as students are new to … Continue reading
Posted in digital literacy, Disaster preparedness, emergencies, ICT, Teachers, teaching, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged digital literacy skills, digital skills, sdg 4.c, teachers, teaching, technology, training
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A global framework to measure digital literacy
By Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report, and Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics From the cocoa farmer in Ghana using a mobile phone to market crops to the nurse in Sweden using telehealth … Continue reading
Posted in digital literacy, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, STEM, Uncategorized
Tagged digital literacy skills, digital skills, edtech, monitoring, Target 4.4, technology
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What do we mean by literacy in a digital world?
The meaning of the word literacy has developed continuously over the years. Today, the fact that International Literacy Day is on the theme of literacy in a digital world reminds us how the world has changed. At the end of … Continue reading
Posted in digital literacy, ICT, Literacy, Uncategorized
Tagged digital divide, digital literacy skills, digital skills, literacy, target 4.6, technology
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DigComp: A framework helping young people to use their digital skills to find work
Today, in an everyday digital world surrounded by videogames, smartphones, digital social networks and online chats, still 45% of the European Union population and 37% of its labour force have insufficient digital skills. Having digital skills is nowadays also relevant … Continue reading
