Code: 5.3
Actively engaging learners
To use digital technologies to foster learners’ active and creative engagement with a subject matter. To use digital technologies within pedagogic strategies that foster learners’ transversal skills, deep thinking and creative expression. To open up learning to new, real-world contexts, which involve learners themselves in hands-on activities, scientific investigation or complex problem solving, or in other ways increase learners’ active involvement in complex subject matters.
Descriptors
A1 · Newcomer
What you can do at this level
I only very rarely, if at all, use digital technologies to motivate or engage learners.
What you learn at this level
Making little use of digital technologies for learner engagement.
A2 · Explorer
What you can do at this level
I use digital technologies to visualise and explain new concepts in a motivating and engaging way, e.g. by employing animations or videos. I employ digital learning activities which are motivating and engaging, e.g. games, quizzes.
What you learn at this level
Using digital technologies to engage learners.
B1 · Integrator
What you can do at this level
I put learners’ active use of digital technologies at the centre of the instructional process. I choose the most appropriate tool for fostering learner active engagement in a given learning context or for a specific learning objective.
What you learn at this level
Fostering learners’ active use of digital technologies.
B2 · Expert
What you can do at this level
I use a range of digital technologies to create a relevant, rich and effective digital learning environment, e.g. by addressing different sensory channels, learning styles and strategies, by methodologically varying activity types and group compositions. I reflect on how effective the teaching strategies employed are in increasing learner engagement and active learning.
What you learn at this level
Using digital technologies for learners’ active engagement with the subject matter.
C1 · Leader
What you can do at this level
I select, design, employ and orchestrate the use of digital technologies within the learning process according to their potential for fostering learners’ active, creative and critical engagement with the subject matter. I reflect on how suitable the different digital technologies I use are in increasing learners’ active learning and adapt my strategies and choices accordingly.
What you learn at this level
Comprehensively and critically implementing strategies for active learning.
C2 · Pioneer
What you can do at this level
I reflect on, discuss, re-design and innovate pedagogic strategies for actively engaging learners.
What you learn at this level
Innovating digital strategies for active learning.