Support the development of digital skills in an integrative and methodical way

In addition to subject-specific content, digital skills must also be increasingly developed among students in teaching. When it comes to the actual planning and implementation of a course, dealing with digitalization and existing competence models for digital skills can quickly become overwhelming. In the planning and implementation of the course, even simple but also more extensive digital and analog methodological changes can support the development of digital skills.

Begin 31. August 2023 - 13:30 Uhr
End 20. September 2023 - 18:30 Uhr

In two parts, this workshop is dedicated to the question of how the development of digital skills in students - regardless of the respective subject area - can be integrated into existing teaching. First, a general understanding of these skills will be created and their necessity in the context of digital transformation will be developed. This is a welcome opportunity for you to reflect on your understanding of competence and your role as a teacher.

Various approaches that appear suitable for tackling the challenge are then developed together. These include action-oriented teaching formats, such as project-based or problem-based learning, the implementation of blended learning, but also a variety of smaller and quickly applicable micro-methods. The potential and limitations of the methods for teaching geared towards students' digital skills will be reflected on together.

Between the workshop sessions, participants will develop their own course plans/concepts. In a final session, the approaches will be presented and discussed with peers.

 

Location

Online event
The virtual event room will be announced by email

 

Procedure

The workshop is divided into a basic part and a reflection/practice part. In between, course concepts are to be developed in a self-work phase.

  • Appointment 1: 6 AE (270 min)

  • Self-work phase: 4 units (180 min)

  • Term 2: 4 units (180 min)

 

Learning objectives

After participating in the workshop, you will be able to

  • explain what is meant by digital skills and name individual sub-skills,

  • explain the interplay between key and specialist skills to form professional skills,

  • reflect on their role in the development of digital skills and derive corresponding tasks from this,

  • select various methodological approaches to building digital skills in students for their own teaching, identify their potential and challenges and use them in their teaching in a didactically justified manner.

 

Organizer

HTW Dresden

Course management

Jana Halgasch

Jana Halgasch is a consultant for university didactics at the HTW Dresden. She studied Media Informatics at the HTW Dresden and the Master's program in Higher Education at the University of Hamburg. Her work focuses on the strategic and structural development of teaching under changing social conditions (digitalization, climate change), the creation of framework conditions for teaching and learning, the professionalization of teachers and the management of the teaching team at HTW Dresden. Her focus is on digitalization, teaching-learning space development, the basics of university didactics, education for sustainable development and key competencies. In her doctorate at the University of Hamburg, she is working on the topic of teaching and learning space development, in particular the spatial competence of teachers at universities.

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