Digital competence: our outstanding account

Hi buddies!
I come back to tell you an amazing story! I was lucky to assist to a webinar! Do you know what is this?
This is a conference, workshop or seminary in a video format that is imparted through internet. What makes the webinar special is the possible interaction between the speaker and the listener. We could assist to it thanks to webex.

So, I want to tell you my experience in the webinar "Aprendizaje en linea y competencia digital educativa" done by my ITC teacher Maria Jesus García San Martín. It was about the multiple options that teachers have to be involved and aware of the last educative technologies that we can use in our daily lessons.

They are available in the INTEF (Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y Formación de Profesorado) webpage. It is created to keep teachers trained. We must be learning the best ways of teaching our lessons but, we don't usually have time to dedicate to these courses. What this webpage offers to us is total freedom to them when and where they want. These courses and online and totally free and then, once completed, we will receive badges to attach to our digital portfolio. There are different types of courses:

• Edu pills: It is an app to upload it in your mobile phone or tablet. It enables teachers to develop the digital competence in a short period of time (from 3 to 7 minutes) and you can share your achievements in the same app. Each micro-learning is classified according to the Common Framework of Digital Competence Teaching. It is great to train ourselves in a short while! You can even kill your free time doing this micro-learning courses.

• NOOC INTEF: In this section, teachers are going to train just one competence or objective, making a record of it through a digital portfolio. These courses are a little bit longer than Edu Pills. However, here, you will have a tutor who will encourage you to not give up. Once you have done it, they provide you with open badges. You will be able to complete your digital competence portfolio attaching them. However, these training hours are not certified.

• MOOC INTEF: They are similar to NOOC but they are a little bit longer and with different content. These courses are focused on active methodologies, peer learning or professional learning communities. You can also connect to others through the platform. These training hours are not certified either but, they provide you with open badges to attain to your digital porfolio.

• SPOOC INTEF: this course is free open, you don't have fixed a day to sign up or to finish it. They are learning experiences at your own pace. Here, you don't have a tutor but you have the internal support of the Facebook group where all the members are included. In addition, open badges are provided too when the objectives will be attained.

Finally, the portfolio is the digital platform which is going to ask us questions to assess our digital competence. Then, we will have to demonstrate that competence attaching our open badges. This is not something we can do in one evening, this is something we have to fulfill during our educative life. Due to this, these courses should not be done because of the badges, but because of the knowledge they are going to give us to put into practice in our class. 

As a conclusion, I think we are not aware of the great opportunity that these free courses offers to us. It is great how we can be trained in this difficult competence for us, and super easy competence for our students, who almost think in digital. They are born in a digital era that we are not used to, so, they don't learn as we do or did, they learn in a digital way. Due to this, we must teach them in a digital way.

Unfortunately, I think teachers are not well informed of this great opportunity. 

I am so grateful to have been informed in this webinar about all this amazing information, but, I am more grateful to share this information with you!!

Thank you for reading me! 

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See you!!