Digital competencies

What?

Why?

How to measure?

How to develop?

Digital competencies

ICT literacy

Technological literacy

21st Century skills

Digital skills

The Norwegian Digial Competence Curriculum for Students

Digital competence - One of the five basic literacies

Sub-categories:

•Search and process

•Produce

•Communicate

•Digital judgement

(Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, 2012)

ICT curriculum for students:

The case of Flanders (2004)

ICT curriculum for students:

The case of Flanders: 2007

Digital competencies & ICT use in education:

Research from a curriculum point of view

Teachers' digital competencies

Pedagogical approach

How to measure TPACK

• Examining lesson plans and/or
• Curriculum materials
• Observing lessons (rubrics, eg. Harris et al., 2010)
• Survey 
• ...

> Epoused TPACK vs In-use TPACK

> WHY measuring TPACK

> Combining different methods

BUT can we re-produce the venn diagram with the data?

Students' Digital competence 

Students' Digital competence 

1. Which tests exist?

2. What do they measure?

3. What is the reported quality of

the tests?

Learning in Digital Networks - ICT Literacy Test

Examples of tasks

To measure students' collaborative problem solving competences

Background questionnaire

Gender

Self-efficacy

Socio-economic status (SES)

Academic aspirations

Results

Gender

Self-efficacy

Socio-economic status (SES)

Academic aspirations

Discussion & conclusion 

• Digital competencies: what's in the name?

Digital competencies: what's in the name?

Digital competence involve being able to use digital tools, media and resources efficiently and responsibly, to solve practical tasks, find and process information, design digital productsand communicate content. Digital competence also include developing digital judgement by acquiring knowledge and good strategies for the use of the Internet

Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training

What's the content?

• National curricula
• 21st century skills
• Computational thinking
• Makers movement
• What's next?

How to measure it?

• Who & why
• Self-reports
• Performance based
• Combination
• What's next?

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