From AI to fake news, from smartphones to social media: in an increasingly digitized society, it is increasingly important to be able to deal critically and consciously with this flood of digital information. This minor is your launch to a key position in education. With key objectives for Digital Literacy looming, you will already learn the intricacies of navigating the digital world safely, debunking false information and using technology for positive change. Make yourself indispensable in tomorrow's education and take the lead in innovation: become a Digital Literacy Specialist!

 

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Digital Literacy consists of the domains of practical ICT skills, digital information skills, media literacy and computational thinking. Here's what digital literacy is all about:
 

• Effective and ethical use of digital technology
• Digital communication and collaboration
• Creation of digital content
• Searching and finding information and data
• Logical and step-by-step reasoning to solve complex issues
• Online security and privacy
   

In this minor, you will not only learn what these areas mean for your professional or educational context, but you will also learn why these areas are important and how to teach students and colleagues in your context these skills, familiarize them with them and make them aware of them.

In this minor, you will work on the following learning outcomes

1. The participant demonstrates an understanding of all domains of digital literacy for their own professional context and is familiar with supporting partners and information resources.

2. The participant demonstrates translating the content areas of digital literacy into actual educational activities for young and older learners, addressing specific goals from the content lines and the continuous learning line between primary education and secondaire education exclusively and integrated undergrad.

3. The participant demonstrates on the basis of analysis of the context of the school or organization to be able to purposefully draw up and initiate an (innovative) change process regarding aspects of digital literacy.

4. The participant is able to take a pioneering role in their own team and inspire colleagues in working on the domains of digital literacy in their own education.

5. The participant designs a current improvement in the field of digital literacy, comes up with recommendations and develops a recommendation into a 'prototype' which is tested and evaluated in the professional context of the question.

Workshops, inspiration sessions and mentoring moments are organized every Thursday between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm. We invite experts and organize optional (international) excursions where appropriate. The above learning outcomes have a scope of 20 EC. You can spend the remaining 10 EC on your own area of expertise or profiling related to specialist digital literacy, for example on media literacy or programming. During the minor you work on a real question from a real client (Luk 5).

This minor is open to anyone who is interested in digital literacy and wants to further develop and/or become a specialist in it in their school, foundation or organization.

Workshops, inspiration sessions and mentoring moments are organized every Thursday between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm.

Na 14:00 uur is het mogelijk om thematisch gerichte workshops te volgen, begeleiding te ontvangen of verder te werken op de onderwijslocatie in Groningen. Om de donderdagen heen kun je zelf je dagen indelen om te werken aan de leeruitkomsten en inhouden van deze minor en stages te doen op bijvoorbeeld een school met een 'techlab of organisaties die zich bezig houden met digitale geletteredheid zoals Basicly en Mediawegwijs. Daarnaast verwachten we dat je ruimte vrij kunt maken voor eventuele excursies die op andere dagen dan de donderdag plaats kunnen vinden, het afspraken maken met de odprachtgever of het werken aan de inhouden van de minor op de locatie van de opdrachtgever.

You will create a portfolio during this minor in which you will collect experiences and evidence of work on the learning outcomes. The portfolio combined with a final dialogue form the conclusion of this minor.