Learning Module title: Planning a digital literacy workshop Position within the curriculum: Stage 1 (entrustment) / Category 2 (Methodological skills in working with groups of participants) Profile entrance of students: Professional profile low, up to 4 months being an e-facilitator. Knowledge: Knowledge of the telecenter and its users. Skills: Technology standard skills (office, multimedia) Relationship skills in dealing with the groups involved. Competencies: Standard telecenter facilitator skills. Skills in ICT technologies and tools Output Profile of students: Profile of a facilitator. Knowledge: Learning the concept of digital literacy and digital divide. Learn what a telecentre and what is its mission. Diagnose learning needs. Mark objectives. Workshop tools for digital literacy and assessment. Skills: Acquire skills of essential technological tools. Acquire skills to organize optimal courses. Competences: Basics of our work in the telecenter and the elements it is based. Empowerment of the essential concepts of a facilitator. QA (Quality Assurance) : Description of training units (of each module of each module): Title of the Learning Units Duration Learnings aims/outcome Learning Contents (What is taught) Pedagogies and Educational Methods (How) Techniques, Instruments and Materials Learning Unit Actors (Who) Evaluation
Opening Module Unit Introducing Module -Acquire knowledge and abilities in managing the learning environment -To use of the platform -To complete student personal profile; -To manage interactive tools; -To manage the communication with students and tutor. We offer to the student the opportunity to access to the platform a few days before the start of the module in order to provide him/her relevant information about the course and module in order to facilitate the further development of learning units. The only tasks of the Introduction Unit are: Introduce oneself in the Introduction Forum ; Complete ones personal profile; Consult the Bulletin Board and the Introduction forum to read the messages from the tutor/other students. Modules presentation: Goals of the module. Contents of the module. Target of the module. Module structure and methodology Personal and technical requirements Tutorship of the Module Forums Module plan Information about how to the use of the platform. Short guide about the Use of Moodle platform. Guide to retouch the photo of your profile. Bulletin board and news Forum presentation of the students and It isn t an evaluation unit. It serves to connect students to the training process.
Unit 1: Digital literacy and telecenters - Understand what is the digital divide and how to translate that global concept to the local reality of the telecenter. - Understand the concept of digital literacy. - To know what is a digital literacy workshop. -Learn the concept of digital literacy and digital divide. - Learn what a telecenter and what is its mission. - Learn key concepts of the facilitator's job: digital inclusion, dinamization,... -Bringing the concepts learned to the reality of each telecenter and community. It offers the student a global definition of the concept of digital divide, digital literacy and telecenter. Once these global concepts are assumed, we will make students to bring it closer to the reality they live in their telecenters. To carry out this exercise, we propose the student to share with the rest of students his own definition of the concept through the forum. With the contribution of the definitions of all group members and the help of the facilitator, we will create a definition of global concepts and see how they can be adapted to the reality of the students. As a task of the unit, students the tutor will ask students to make a proposal of 10 tools to work with digital literacy in their telecenters. Reading: El reto de la alfabetización digital. Reading: Alfabetización digital = Conocimientos técnicos? Reading: Estrategias y elementos de Alfabetización Digital Reading: Pero qué hacemos en un taller de Alfabetización Digital? Extra Reading: Qué es la brecha digital? Extra Reading: Las cifras: una pincelada! Extra Reading: : Cómo superar la brecha digital? Extra Reading: Qué es un telecentro? Qué se puede hacer en él? Extra Reading: Las tres líneas de trabajo Extra Reading: Quiénes son los protagonistas de un telecentro? Extra Reading: List of resources collected in Task "10 proposals Task 1 - Forum: Share with the group your definition of digital literacy. Task 2: 10 proposals for digital literacy tools. Self Evaluation Unit 1 Extra forum: Unit 1: Doubts forum.
Unit 2: Analyze the context and define objectives -Understand the importance of planning the training, make a diagnosis and defining the objectives in a consistent manner based on identified needs. - Learn to make a diagnosis of the needs and characteristics of the target. - Learn how to define the objectives of the workshop in a manner consistent with the previously identified needs. The unit focus on enlarging the acquisition of Knowledge about making a specific diagnosis to identify needs of the users of a Telecenter. We will help students to learn to do that, analysing a practical case. Tutor will ask to do that as a first task. This exercise Will help students to learn to define the objectives of the workshop in a manner consistent with the previously identified needs. The tutor Will suggest to deliver a second task the student WHERE Should Develop the design of a Digital Literacy Workshop. Reading: La importancia de analizar el contexto. Reading: Análisis de las características de los participantes. Reading: El entorno en el que desarrollamos nuestro taller de alfabetización. Reading: Qué es un objetivo? Reading: Cómo definir los objetivos. Reading: Que cansancio! Es necesario formular los objetivos? Reading: Cómo debe redactarse un objetivo? Reading: Ejemplo de objetivos de un taller de alfabetización digital. Task 1 - Forum: Análisis de un caso práctico. Task 2: Primeros pasos para diseñar el Taller de Alfabetización Digital: A quién nos dirigiremos? Cuáles son nuestros objetivos? Self Evaluation Unit 2 Students will have the support of some written material, apart from the forum that will be moderated by the tutor through the Moodle platform. Extra forum: Unit 2: Doubts forum.
Unit 3 To plan the Workshop. The Eassy Computer tool. -Learning to know the aspects that must be taken into account when planning a digital literacy workshop (materials, timing, content...) -Knowing the resource Easy Computer as a tool for digital literacy work with telecenter users. -Learn to plan a workshop on digital literacy. -Learn to use the tool Easy Computer as a teaching support material of digital literacy workshops. -Learn and gain confidence with the uses and applications of Easy Computer in a classroom. Tutor proposes to students work with the Easy Computer tool in order to know how it works, how can they use it with final users and how useful are learning-sheets of Easy Computer. After haven seen and used this tool, tutor will ask students to discuss about the criteria of a good methodological organization of digital literacy workshop in a Forum. After that and using as a base this tool, each student will design and develop and design a plan and structure the organization of a workshop on digital literacy. Students will have the possibility to share their tasks with the rest of students through an specific forum. Reading: Qué es el Ordenador Práctico? Reading: Para qué sirve el Ordenador Práctico? Reading: En qué consiste el Ordenador Práctico? Reading: Cómo funciona el Ordenador Práctico? Reading: Cómo utilizo el Ordenador Práctico en el Telecentro? Reading: Superando límites Extra forum: Unit 3: Doubts forum. Extra forum: Let s share Task 2. Task 1 - Forum: Criteria for methodological organization of digital literacy workshop. Task 2: Planning and structuring the organization of a workshop on digital literacy. Self-Evaluation Unit 3 Students will have the support of some written material, apart from the forum that will be moderated by the tutor through the Moodle platform.
Unit 4 The evaluation, as a GPS of facilitators. - Understand the importance of evaluation as a system to improve future applications. -Learn the phases of the evaluation: a) Prior to the workshop at the telecentre, to detect the starting point: initial assessment and diagnosis. b) During the workshop to see where we go and adapt if necessary. c) After the workshop to see if we have achieved what we have designed. - Get the tools and strategies to evaluate the activities. The unit tries to make see students how important is the evaluation during a training. This is why the tutor will make students to suggests and discuss about dynamics of evaluation in a Forum. The second task that will be asked to do is to design a evaluation questionnaire in order to see how different could be a evaluation developped at the beginning of a training, a midium or a final evaluation. Students will have the possibility to share their tasks with the rest of students through an specific forum. Reading: Fases de la Evaluación Reading: Estrategias de la Evaluación Reading: Instrumentos y dinámicas Reading: Cuestionarios en la web Extra Resource: Example of evaluation questionnaire. Extra forum: Unit 3: Doubts forum. Task 1 - Forum: Dynamic evaluation for workshops and courses. Task 2: Design an evaluation questionnaire. Self-Evaluation Unit 4. Students will have the support of some written material, apart from the forum that will be moderated by the tutor through the Moodle platform. Closing module Unit Forum and evaluation questionnaire Become aware of the achievements of the module Evaluation Forum. Evaluation Questionnaire. Students will be proposed to answer a questionnaire evaluation of the module and to participate in a dialogue-forum evaluation. Evaluation Forum and Good bye. Evaluation Questionnaire. Final Exam. Students Final Exam
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