The start of another school year and for me the start of a new enterprise! For the last 11 years I've worked as a local authority ICT advisor but in July I finally made the leap into education consultancy. So Gareth Morgan Consultancy Ltd. has been formed to help schools get the most from their technology investments; providing ICT / Computing curriculum advice, guidance, training and courses. It's still early days but it looks like there are lots of opportunities out there to work with schools - so at least my family won't starve! I'm currently trying to involve myself in as many projects as possible - working with C-Learning on a digital classroom project run by a large international technology company; about to continue working with the Welsh Government on the curriculum and other projects; beginning to set up and run my own courses; ICT Mark assessments; and in school support through INSET and twilight meetings. I think I may need a nine day week! ;-)
In a couple of previous posts I looked at what was meant by the term digital literacy and what this could mean in the Welsh education context. These were written in response to a recommendation from the ICT Steering Group report , proposing a new statutory Digital Literacy Framework for schools. I attempted to define what digital literacy meant using definitions from groups such as The Royal Society, Becta, Futurelab , Jisc and Common Sense Media. It was very difficult to pin down exactly what it meant but there were certainly commonalities between all of them. This week however, Prof. Graham Donaldson published his report on the curriculum and assessment in Wales, "Successful Futures" , and in it referred not to digital literacy , but to digital competence (which is a term I'm far happier using). I therefore feel it's important for me to try in this post to understand what is meant by this term, look at some definitions and find out if there are any differences ...
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