What is Digital Competency?
Image source: Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur (2019), Digital Competency Framework , page 12 .
Digital competency is defined as a set of skills necessary to the confident, critical, and creative use of digital technologies to achieve objectives with regard to learning.
Digital competency plays a role in all content areas and is therefore relevant to all teachers and subject domains.
This is reflected in Competency 12 of the Reference Framework for Professional Competencies: Mobilize Digital Technologies.
Documents like the Digital Competency Development Continuum and Pedagogical Guide provide example themes for each dimension of the Digital Competency.
Digital Competency Posters
Introduction Video for Students
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Learn more using this interactive wheel.
This interactive slide deck allows you to navigate parts of the Digital Competency, and explore the 12 elements with examples for each.
12 Questions to Prompt Reflection on
Digital Competency
Digital Competency Reflection Organizer
Connecting Digital Competency to
Cross-Curricular Competencies
Printable Handout
