Title:The Use of Digital Learning Tools in the Teachers' Professional Activities to Ensure Sustainable Development and Democratization of Education in European Countries
Tags:Civic education, digital citizenship, digital learning tool, Digital Learning Tools, Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, european country, Key competencies, multicultural competence, professional activity, professional development, STEM education, sustainable development goal, teacher professional development and Teachers' Professional Activities
Abstract:
The article deals with the revealing and analysis of the experience of the teachers’ use of the digital tools in their professional activities in the European countries (Germany, Italy, Netherland, Denmark,Estonia, Croatia, Sweden, Finland, Macedonia, Norway and others). The online recourses ensuring the creation of the sustainable environment for teachers and students including key competencies areas such as entrepreneurship, citizenship, civic education and STEM education are revealed in the article. The presented recourses allow to creative use of digital technologies, identify teachers’ and students’ needs and finding technological answers, solve technical problems, identifying gaps in digital competence. Using the analysed resources teachers become aware of the need to improve and update their digital competence; ability to support others in developing their digital competence; search for opportunities for self-development and awareness of modern digital evolution that is proclaimed by the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ adopted by the United Nations in 2015. The examples of the use of digital tools offered to the teachers in European countries are aimed at building the digital environment, developing the digital competence of the teacher and student, and introducing innovations in the learning process. The critical use of presented experience in the comparative perspective can improve domestic teaching practice and teachers’ professional development.
The Use of Digital Learning Tools in the Teachers' Professional Activities to Ensure Sustainable Development and Democratization of Education in European Countries
The Use of Digital Learning Tools in the Teachers' Professional Activities to Ensure Sustainable Development and Democratization of Education in European Countries