Hello.
My name is Ollie Bray and it’s a great privilege of mine to be able to welcome you to this
European Schoolnet Academy eLearning book which is on developing digital skills in your
classroom.
The course is structured around six modules and the six modules are:
1.
What are digital skills and why do we need them
2.
How to use digital resources and content 3.
How to create digital resources and content 4.
How to programme machines 5.
How to use social media 6.
And Module Six will be a final project that we will ask you to submit and peer review
As you progress through the course, you will have an opportunity to earn digital badges
for each of the modules you complete, and also a final digital badge at the end of the
course.
There will also be an opportunity for you to submit your work for the “eSkills for
Jobs Awards” in 2015.
Throughout the course, we will be uploading video content to YouTube, we’ll encourage
you to have discussions on Twitter and on the Facebook page using the hashtag #eSkillsCourse.
There is also, of course, an online forum and an online discussion forum that you can
use as part of the course on the European Schoolnet Academy MOOC page.
So, let’s get started with Module One so that you can understand a little bit more
about what we are going to be looking at.
Module One is called: “What are digital skills and why do we need them?” and this
module is split into six parts.
We covered “Introduction” and I’ll talk a little bit about what we will be covering
in a minute: 1.
What are digital skills 2.
The future of work 3.
The future of jobs 4.
Accessing jobs of the future 5.
Future thinking
Let me just give you just a little bit of taste in terms of what we are going to be
looking at.
In the next video, we’ll start to actually look at what digital skills are and why they’re
important for children and young people but also for teachers as well.
We’ll try and set this in the context of employment across the European Union and also
global employment.
In the next unit, we’ll look at the “Future of work” and we’ll try and think about
what work might be like in 2020, 2030, 2040 and beyond.
Of course, if we’re thinking about the future of work, we also need to think about what
jobs of the future might be like as well.
And in the third part of this module, we’ll talk to some of the industry experts and we’ll
get their opinion on what work might be like in the future.
Of course, if we’re actually trying to help young people to be prepared for jobs in the
future, we need to be thinking about how they might access these future jobs as well and
what skills might they need.
It’s all very well having digital skills but increasingly, for example, young people
will be interviewed for jobs via Skype and video conference, and that online presence
will be increasingly important.
We’ll look at some of these key things during this part of the course.
The last part of Unit One will be a bit about future thinking.
I’ll be introducing some technologies to you that already exist but are only going
to become more and more common over the next 10, 20, 30, or 50 years.
These are technologies that I believe will change the way that we work, we play, and,
of course, that we learn.
So, throughout the course, can I just remind you again that we will be setting questions,
we will be getting things for you to think about, we’ll encourage you to have conversations
online and we’ll occasionally set you tasks to complete as well.
And there will certainly be a class task at the end of each module.
But, for now, what I want you to do is to get your brains in gear, to get yourself starting
to think about what we’re going to be doing during the course, get you into that mode
of collaboration with all the other people that are participating across Europe.
And most importantly, thinking about anything that you learn in this course, how can it
have impact in your classroom.
See you in the next video.