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Effective digital skills are essential for all teachers and tutors in the Further Education (FE) and Skills Sector. This text brings together important theory and research around digital literacy and outlines what this means for teaching in the sector. It presents a practical guide to the application of digital literacy skills in practice to enhance learning and teaching. It offers FE and Skills teachers and tutors a practical framework, underpinned by the standards through which they can develop their digital literacy skills. The text introduces different types of web-based technologies and explores how they can be used in teaching. It gives guidance on the skills teachers and tutors need to develop and on how they can ensure that their learners focus on these skills too. It also examines issues of digital safety, security and responsibility and how online learning communities can be accessed. It introduces some of the digital devices provided as teaching resources in the FE and skills sector and how these can be used fully to support learning. Finally, it looks at how teachers and tutors can maintain their digital skills going into practice and how continuous reflection can help them enhance their teaching.
Forming and Managing a Professional Digital Identity
Forming and Managing a Professional Digital Identity
In this chapter you will learn:
- To consider what constitutes your digital identity.
- How to create and manage digital profiles.
- To consider the balance between personal and professional identities in the digital age.
- To choose appropriate digital services, tools and networks to showcase your skills, talents, knowledge and content.
- How to monitor your digital footprint and increase your digital capital.
Links to the Digitally Literate FE and Skills Teacher Framework
- Forms and manages a professional digital identity and uses it to engage professionally.
- Forms and manages a professional digital identity.
- Contributes to, and engages in, digital communities in order to establish and maintain a digital identity.
Your Digital Identity
The digital identity we each have is made up of all the profiles, ...
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