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Towards a comprehensive definition of digital skills By Ismael Peña-López - Average reading time 2'22minutes Main categories: Digital Literacy Other tags: crossmedia, Digital Literacy, e-awareness, e-competences, e-skills, media literacy, multimedia Digi

Writing Checklist to Assess Pre-Course Writing Skills

Voxopop talkgroups are a fun, engaging and easy-to-use way to help students develop their speaking skills. They're a bit like message boards, but use voice rather than text and a have a specialised user interface.

Steps in Rubric Development 1. Determine learning outcomes 2. Keep it short and simple (Include 4 - 15 items; use brief statements or phrases) 3. Each rubric item should focus on a different skill 4. Focus on how students develop and express

E-portfolios allow students to demonstrate competencies and reflect upon experiences, documenting academic preparation and career readiness. Creating e-portfolios enables students to enhance their learning by giving them a better understanding of their skills, as well as where and how they need to improve to meet academic and career goals. Additionally, the digital artifacts that students accumulate can be used to assess learning at the course, program, department, and institutional level. This report reviews how selected higher education institutions have implemented assessment e-portfolio systems that demonstrate and assess learning.

Learning to create, manage and promote a professional learning network (PLN) will soon become, if it's not already, one of the most necessary and sought after skills for a global citizen, and as such, must become a prominent feature of any school curriculum.

Project Based Learning is a dynamic approach to teaching in which students explore real-world problems and challenges, simultaneously developing cross-curriculum skills while working in small collaborative groups. The materials provided in this collection explore research around PBL, showcase proven examples and allow you to learn the steps to develop a PBL curriculum.

Move from projects to Project Based Learning. teach concepts not facts distinguish concepts from critical information - the craft precedes the art - find the right blend between open-ended inquiry and direct instruction make skills as important as knowledge form teams, not groups use thinking tools use creativity tools reward discovery make reflection part of the lesson be innovative yourself