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DigCompEdu2017

Code: 6.5

Digital problem solving

To incorporate learning activities, assignments and assessments which require learners to identify and solve technical problems, or to transfer technological knowledge creatively to new situations.

Descriptors

A1 · Newcomer

What you can do at this level

  • I do not or only very rarely consider how to foster learners’ digital problem solving.

What you learn at this level

  • Making little use of strategies fostering learners’ digital problem solving.

A2 · Explorer

What you can do at this level

  • I encourage learners to solve technical problems using trial and error. I encourage learners to transfer their digital competence to new situations.

What you learn at this level

  • Encouraging learners to use digital technologies to solve problems.

B1 · Integrator

What you can do at this level

  • I implement learning activities in which learners use digital technologies creatively, expanding their technical repertoire. I encourage learners to help each other in developing their digital competence.

What you learn at this level

  • Implementing activities fostering learners’ digital problem solving.

B2 · Expert

What you can do at this level

  • I use a range of different pedagogic strategies to enable learners to apply their digital competence to new situations or in new contexts. I encourage learners to reflect on the limits of their digital competence and help them identify suitable strategies for further developing it.

What you learn at this level

  • Strategically using a range of pedagogic strategies to foster learners’ digital problem solving.

C1 · Leader

What you can do at this level

  • I enable learners to seek out different technological solutions to a problem, investigate their benefits and drawbacks and critically and creatively come up with a new solution or product. I critically reflect on the suitability of my pedagogic strategies to foster learners’ digital competence and expand their repertoire of digital strategies, and adapt my methods accordingly.

What you learn at this level

  • Comprehensively and critically fostering learners’ digital problem solving.

C2 · Pioneer

What you can do at this level

  • I enable learners to apply their digital competence in unconventional ways to new situations and creatively come up with new solutions or products. I reflect on, discuss, re-design and innovate pedagogic strategies for fostering learners’ digital problem solving skills.

What you learn at this level

  • Using innovative formats for fostering learners’ digital problem solving.