So what ICT competencies should you aim to acquire in terms of your own skills development?
National ICT in Education policies often identify building teacher ICT capacity as a key area. Some even prioritize certain skill sets. There are many ICT competency frameworks for teachers (CFT) available globally. In this course each unit focuses on a particular ICT/education competency drawn from the UNESCO ICT CFT. These competencies are varied and span policy, pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, organization, administration and professional development. If you are interested to know the logic behind the selection of the competencies review the resources below:
The UNESCO framework is not the only ICT CFT used by policy writers. Another popular ICT CFT is from the International Society for Technology in Education. Access the ISTE standards for teachers below and do a comparison between the two frameworks. Note that they tackle the identification of ICT skills for education very differently.
