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Helen Milner

Learning digital skills and closing the digital divide

In the second of a series of Essential Digital Skills ‘Thought Pieces’, Group Chief Executive for the Good Things Group in the UK and Australia Helen Milner explains more about its work.

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Jo Dixon

Supporting digital skills: the importance of understanding and valuing everyday digital practices

. In the first of a series of Essential Digital Skills thought pieces by authors from across the sector, Jo Dixon draws on her own experience supporting digital skills development amongst teachers and adult learners of ESOL to show how exploring learners’ current practices can help learners develop digital skills in small steps.

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Teams works: Collaboration the key for English at Essex Adult Community Learning

ETF Regional Specialist Lead Bob Read talks to Karen Gowlett about how MS Teams has been central to English teaching at Essex Adult Community Learning in 2020.

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Exploring challenges and solutions for delivering Essential Digital Skills in different settings

October 2020 update on the Essential Digital Skillls programme phase two provision and resources

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Vikki Liogier

Start your digital CPD journey with the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform

Vikki Liogier, the ETF’s National Head of EdTech and Digital Skills, writes about digital skill and the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform.

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The Online Educator: The Art of Effective Online Communication

Article by Simon Day, Vice-President of Education at Toastmasters International

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David Russell

Digital pedagogy: diesel trains or aeroplanes?

The ETF Thinks… article by David Russell, Chief Executive of the Education and Training Foundation.

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Vikki Liogier

Pilot for further recognition on the Enhance DTP

Blog by Vikki Liogier, the Education and Training Foundation’s National Head of EdTech and Digital Skills

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Event focus: Bett 2020 – Creating a better future by transforming education

On 22-25 January 2020, Bett will bring 800 leading companies, 103 new EdTech startups and over 34,000 attendees.

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Vikki Liogier

Turbocharging Essential Digital Skills in the UK

Vikki Liogier, the ETF’s Head of Learning Technology, gives information on Essential Digital Skills and training teachers to deliver basic digital skills qualifications.

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First steps of the essential digital skills CPD programme

The new essential digital skills entitlement will enable adults aged 19+ with no or low digital skills to undertake ‘essential digital skills’ qualifications free of charge from 2020.

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Vikki Liogier

How the ETF’s digital strategy, framework and free learning modules support and develop the FE workforce

Vikki Liogier, Head of Learning Technologies at the Education and Training Foundation (ETF), talks about how the ETF’s Digital Teaching Professional Framework, EdTech strategy and the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform will help the Further Education (FE) and Training sector workforce develop and innovate using technology.

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Vikki Liogier

Creating an education technology (EdTech) competency framework to promote new pedagogic approaches

In this blog, Vikki explains how the ETF is supporting the Further Education and Skills workforce to become digital citizens with the development of a pedagogic EdTech competency framework (EdTechComp).

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Coding education will unlock future opportunities for today’s learners

Joachim Horn Founder and CEO of SAM Labs SAM Labs is an edtech company that combines hardware and software to bring coding in the classroom to life. It’s no understatement to say that coding will become even more important for the future economy here in the UK and abroad. While older generations might panic at […]

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