Don't know how I missed this but the draft digital competence framework is now available via the Learning Wales website. An opportunity for most schools to look at the framework in detail for the first time and to provide feedback to the Welsh Government via the online questionnaire. I really encourage you to read it and send your response back as soon as possible. You only have until July 4th to get your responses in! I'm going to have a look in detail over the weekend and will post something here soon.
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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