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Motivate your class with online educational games

From Maths, Science, Geography to English, to utilise online games and apps in a classroom can motivate students in learning new subjects and at the same time to reinforce their digital development. Nowadays there are hundreds of web pages with free online games that can be used in school or after class at home. We [...]

November 29th, 2017|Digital skills|

Future of Jobs 2020: The Digital Skills gap and challenges

Here at CRISS we recommend this video that shows us the cutting edge trends and skills required in the job market today and the future jobs. We know that the future of work is going to look very different than it does today. Automation, digital platforms, and other innovations are changing the fundamental nature of work. [...]

October 25th, 2017|Digital skills, News|

2.0 Education: How to motivate the connected generation a talk by Dolors Reig

On October 5th 2017 Dolors Reig gave a talk called 2.0 Education: How to motivate the connected generation. In her presentation, Dolors highlighted the following points as being key to reach today’s connected students: -Take advantage of the possibilities and opportunities offered by new technologies to train the “Youtube Generation”. -Utilise new pedagogical and technological [...]

October 11th, 2017|Digital skills, News|

Are our students 100% digital natives?

Contrary to popular belief, today’s young students are not as digitally savvy as they seem to be. Of course they are familiar with various devices and basic operations like moving around Social Networks and downloading videos and music. Unfortunately these skills are not enough to deal with the demands of both academic and working environments, [...]

September 19th, 2017|Digital skills, News|

Digital Competences (DigComp) and CRISS project

Although the term digital competencies seems clear, many authors are writing about which competencies and skills are the most important for primary and secondary School students. Below we try to offer a clear definition of which digital skills we consider European children should master.

June 29th, 2017|Digital skills|