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Title: Digital Literacy in the Education Sector


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  • Digital Literacy in the Education Sector

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  • Daniel Palmer
  • Regional Manager Middle East Africa
  • ECDL Foundation

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ECDL Foundation Overview Background
  • A not-for-profit global governing body of the
    worlds leading computer skills certification
    programme
  • Members - computer societies in Europe
  • Established in January 1997 by CEPIS (Council of
    European Professional Informatics Societies)

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  • Our Mission Values

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146 Countries
36 Languages
6.5 Million People
22 Million Examinations
20,000 Centres
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National development from technology
  • ICT is the enabling technology par excellence.
    It is responsible for around half of
    productivity growth in modern economies. It
    drives improved efficiency and better services
    and products across the entirety of the private
    and public sectors.
  • (EU Commissioner Viviane Reding, 2005)

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What enables IT adoption?
  • Continuous development creates opportunity
  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Connectivity
  • Content
  • But IT systems are not independent
  • - the user enables the technology

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Interface between people and technology
  • IT creators focus on creating more accessible
    systems
  • We focus on User skills as the key interface

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Effective communication
  • Person to person
  • Requires language, literacy and numeracy
  • Person to computer
  • Requires a new literacy Digital Literacy

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What is Digital Literacy?
  • Digital Literacy involves the confident and
    critical use of Information Communication
    Technology (ICT) for work, leisure and
    communication. Digital Literacy is underpinned
    by basic ICT skills the use of computers to
    retrieve, assess, store, produce, present and
    exchange information, and to communicate and
    participate via the Internet. Demunter 2006.

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Digital Literacy enables national development
  • National development is enabled by technology
    adoption
  • Technology adoption is enabled by Digital
    Literacy
  • Investment in technology must be matched by
    investment in Digital Literacy

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Education sector role
  • Leadership setting the agenda for development
    of national human resources
  • Influence direct responsibility for
    capabilities of future generations
  • Delivery starting point for investment in
    Digital Literacy development

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Investing in Digital Literacy
  • Need for systematic approach
  • Define a set of skills and knowledge requirements
  • Provide training and certification

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Why Certification?
  • Defines skill knowledge requirements
  • Provides objective measure of learning
  • Offers external validation
  • Establishes consistent benchmark
  • Benefits to Candidates, Organisations and Society

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Why ICDL?
  • Proven track record
  • Vendor neutral
  • Not-for-profit ethos
  • Endorsed by industry, govt and academia
  • Worldwide recognition
  • Quality assured

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Why ICDL for Teachers?
  • The Education Reform should start with Teachers.
  • High quality, relevant, and efficient
    opportunities well matched to their needs as
    classroom practitioners
  • Handle the Technology with confidence rather than
    only one step in front or behind! the students.
  • Difference to their teaching and a fundamental
    difference to childrens learning.
  • Technical and Pedagogical Confidences in ICT make
    a major contribution to Learning.

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Productivity Studies
  • Cost of Ignorance Study, Italy
  • 10 reduction in time spent carrying out computer
    tasks
  • 47 increase in competence from pre-training
    levels. 
  • Return-on-investment of 2,261 per person per year

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Productivity Studies
  • NHS, National Health Service, UK
  • ICDL holders were saving approx. 38 minutes per
    day.
  • This equates to over 3 hours per week or 22
    extra working days per year.
  • With 150,000 staff qualified the NHS has the
    potential to achieve 3.3 million extra working
    days through efficiency !

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ICDL in Education
  • The ICDL programme has an unparalleled reputation
    within the education sector in countries around
    the world an important validation of the
    academic rigour with which the programme was
    conceived and continues to be developed
  • The ICDL programme is recognised and supported by
    Ministries of Education and Higher Education in
    Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Chile, Egypt,
    Hungary, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Estonia,
    Poland, Norway, UAE, Kuwait, Romania, Jordan,
    Lithuania, Ireland and Great Britain amongst
    others, for Ministry staff, teaching
    professionals, teaching support staff and for
    students themselves.
  • In UAE, Egypt, Jordan and Italy it is mandatory
    for all teachers to complete the ICDL before they
    can be considered fully qualified as teachers
  • In Great Britain and the United States of America
    the ICDL is mapped into the national
    qualifications frameworks of those countries
    (called NQF and ISTI respectively) allowing
    universities and colleges the opportunity to
    offer academic credits for students who have
    completed the course or who gain the
    qualification whilst at university

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Italian Education System
  • Ministries of Labour / Education and the
    Headmasters Organization of Italian Universities
    have signed an agreement for the universal
    recognition of ICDL.
  • The agreement entails the implementation of ICDL
    in all schools (2600 secondary schools).
  • 572,000 young people under 18 receive
    compensation for the purchase of PC, provided
    they acquire ICDL.

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UAE Education System
  • Ministry of Education has made ICDL certification
    mandatory for all
  • Year 10 Pupils
  • Teachers
  • Principals
  • As the central part of a drive to improve digital
    literacy amongst public sector employees
  • Supported by several decrees from HH Sheikh
    Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum

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Algerian Education System - Context
  • MEN (Ministère de lEducation Nationale) has
    ambitious plans to integrate modern Information
    and Communication Technologies into the
    infrastructure and working practices of schools,
    and across the entire education sector
  • An important part of this investment will be the
    provision of training in order to ensure that MEN
    employees have the capabilities to make the most
    of the new technology
  • CNIIPDTICE will co-ordinate this activity and
    proposes to put in place a national programme of
    education and development in partnership with the
    international standard of ICDL

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Algerian Education System - Requirements
  • 60,000 teachers plus 2,500 other staff
  • Duration
  • Preparation (7 months)
  • Deployment (7 months)
  • 340,000 further teachers and assistants can be
    processed by the same system once established

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Algerian Education System - Infrastructure
  • Training 1500 training centres accredited to
    ICDL standards utilising school computer rooms
  • Certification 200 centres accredited to ICDL
    standards and supplied with approved Automated
    Testing Software for examinations
  • Organisation Project Management central
    project oversight, systems, support and transfer
    of skills provided by ECDL Foundation and its
    Licensee network, including UNESCO Office in
    Cairo
  • Training and examinations available in Arabic and
    French

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Help desk
Certification Office
Administration Office
ATES
ELiSS
Approved E-learningContent
200 Test Centres
1500 Training Centres
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Benefits For Teachers
  • Increase computer skills and gain a Recognized
    Qualification
  • Maintain a Continuing Professional Development
  • Maintain Professional Status with students and
    colleagues
  • Improve classroom practice
  • Progress in the depth and complexity of abstract
    thinking.

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Benefits For Teachers
  • Be ready for the changes in their professional
    practice.
  • Create Lessons Plan using a Word Processing.
  • Search the Internet for lessons resources.
  • Use a spreadsheet to demonstrate mathematical
    procedures and processes in the classroom.
  • Use Graphs and Charts to visually show students
    facts and figures clearly and concisely

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Benefits For Teachers
  • Add fun to a classroom while increasing the
    concentration level of the class using
    presentations
  • Access the Internet to provide themselves and the
    students with a vast source of information in all
    subjects.
  • Use the databases to access extensive reporting
    facilities, synchronize and communicate
    schedules, and collate detailed students
    information.
  • Reduce workloads and raise students achievements
    levels by making better use of ICT in the
    classroom

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