Digital Education Action Plan:priorities, actions and timeframe
Georgi Dimitrov & Fabrizia Benini,European Commission
Directorate-General Education, Youth, Sport andCulture & Directorate-General Communications
Networks, Content and Technology24 September 2018
How can we prepare today’s learners for lifeand work in an age of rapid digital change?
Evolution in ownership of smart phones
Transformation brings opportunities
How can we ensure that digital transformationis inclusive?
95% of 16-24 yearolds in the EU areregular internetusers
How can education keep pace?
20-25% are taughtby digitallyconfident andsupportive teachers
Less than half ofchildren are inschools that arehighly digitallyequipped
Political momentum
Priority 2
Developing relevant digitalcompetences and skills forthe digital transformation
Priority 1 Priority 3
Improving educationthrough better dataanalysis and foresight
Making better use ofdigital technology forteaching and learning
Priority 1: Making better use of digital technologyfor teaching and learning
Priority 1: Policy challenges
Where do you access the Internet? Eurostat 2013
Priority 2: Developing relevant digital skills andcompetences for the digital transformation
Priority 2: Policy challenges
PriPriority 2 - Developing digital competencesand skills
ority 1
Priority 3: Improving education with better dataand foresight
Priority 3: Policy challenges
Data is currently under-exploited for educational
purposes
User-generated data isalready available and can
help identify needs
Foresight might alloweducation to anticipate
change
Priority 2
Developing relevant digitalcompetences and skills for thedigital transformation
Priority 1 Priority 3
Improving educationthrough better dataanalysis and foresight
Making better use ofdigital technology forteaching and learning
ACTION 1: Support the roll-out of highcapacity broadband in schools
Raising awareness of the benefits for schoolsand available funding opportunities Supporting connectivity i.e. through a voucherscheme focusing on disadvantaged areas
ACTION 2: Scaling the SELFIE self-assessment tool to one million teachers,trainers and learners
Self-assessment toolon digital readinessof schools
Upscale SELFIE to reach one million teachers,trainers and learners Promote a mentoring scheme to support schoolin the uptake of SELFIE
ACTION 6: Bring EU Code Week toschools in Europe
• EU Code Week celebrates creativity, problemsolving and collaboration through coding andother tech activities. and other tech activities
• EU Code Week offers participants thepossibility to make their first steps as digitalcreators.
• Teachers can access free professionaldevelopment opportunities and teachingresources.
Participation – from10,000 to 1.2 million
• Activity organisers pin their activity on the map by registeringonline.
• Teachers can build network of activities, to engage as manystudents as possible, and earn a Certificate of Excellence throughthe CodeWeek4All challenge.
ACTION 7: Tackle the challenges ofdigital transformation
• Launching an EU-wide awareness-raisingcampaign to foster online safety, cyber hygieneand media literacy
• Launching a cyber-security teaching initiativebuilding on the Digital Competence Framework forCitizens
ACTION 8: Programme to support digitaland entrepreneurial competences offemale students
Gender gap
Support measures to decrease the gender gap intechnology and entrepreneurial sectors Equip girls with digital skills and inspirational models
ICT specialists by gender (2005-2015) Population working in jobs with ICT-relatedstudies by gender (2011-2015)
Self-Employedpeople in the EU
Women
ACTION 10: Artificial intelligence andlearning analytics pilot actions
Use of datafor improving education
Make better use of the huge amount of data alreadyavailable Develop relevant toolkit and guidance for MemberStates to use data for education