CHILDREN´S LEARNING DIGITAL COMPETENCES

This learning situation is designed as a PBL, it is the best way hoe to develop skills and key competences in children. All activities are designed to help children memorize fact actively, be creative, collaborate and think critically, highlighting 5 competences areas:

 

1. Communication:

It is ability to express, interact and interpret ideas through facts, feelings in oral or written form. It also incudes listening, writing, speaking, reading and adapt conversation to different audience.

- Oral communication: In lesson 3 students present orally their seasonal poster and in lesson 7 they present 3D models.

- Written communication: In lessons 1, 4, 8 students prepare their portfolio, which include written parts. And in lesson 6 whole class prepare newspaper so everybody must write one or more newspaper article.

- Digital communication: These students improve in lesson 1, where they share brainstorming tool like Mindnode. Or in lesson 4 class use Paddlet to improve collaboration in digital environment.

 

2. Creativity:

It is a capacity to generate original ideas or ways, how to look at problems. Students try new approaches to get thing done.

- Creative Tools: In lesson 3 students use Canva to stimulate interest and creativity. Students also generate AI image in lesson 2. It improves their imagination, because they must enter the exact specification of how the image should looks like. Also, if students prepare poster about seasons in lesson 3, they need to think creatively to engage the rest of the class.

- Original Products Design: The most significant creative task is in the lesson 7, where students design diorama or 3D model of the plant’s life cycle. In this activity have groups freedom to develop their creativity.

 

3. Collaboration

The skill is about working in group or pairs, to share ideas. It requires flexibility, compromise and responsibility as a team member.

- Mandatory Group Project: Almost all projects in this learning situation are designated as group work, for example in lesson 2. 3, 5 and 7. Students must work in group collaborate to achieve a common goal; they will learn how to manage time and divide tasks.

- Cooperative learning: All tasks are structured to develop cooperative learning; each group is responsible for different part of plant’s life cycle in lesson 7.

 

4. Critical thinking

It is about analysing, evaluation and think about information, that we read or hear. It includes questioning and searching for true.

– Information Evaluation: In lesson 4 students do research about Life cycle, students are instructed to use AI and then to contrast the information with reliable source.

- Metacognition and Reflection: in lesson 8 students improve their individual and collective reflective thinking. They must analyse what they learned and write it to the blog. Thanks that they think about their own progress.

 

5. ICT Literacy

It is about responsibility, confident and critical using of ITC for work. It involves using computers and the internet to produce, exchange and present information.

- Digital Portfolio Management: Students have to create their own digital portfolio (digital blog). - Digital Production Tools: The project use different applications for different task- Canva for design the poster, Flipsnack for publishing, Drawing Pad for visual presentation and Kahoot for review.

- Integrated Digital Research: Students use AI, educational app (NAMOO) and digital brainstorming tool (Mindnode), so they don’t use computer just for simple searching.