ENHANCEMENT OF DIGITAL AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCES

THROUGH LEARNING SUBJECT CONTENT

Stefania Dugovicova,PhD.,Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, dugovicova@fns.uniba.sk
Teaching Literature in Spain: Lets write BLOGS!
I.6 LITERARY INFORMATION ABOUT
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AND DANTE
I.6.3.1

INFORMATION ABOUT DANTE

I.6 LITERARY INFORMATION ABOUT

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AND DANTE

I.6.3.1.1 ORAL EXPRESSION: DESCRIBING IMAGES.

Here, you have two photos that show:

An INTegral Teacher Training for developing digital and communicative competences and subject content
learning at schools (intTT)
The objective of the intTT European project is to offer student teachers tools to enhance digital (DC) and
communicative competences (CC) through learning of subject content (SC).
The specific aims of the project are to identify ICT tools for improving DC, CC and SC learning; to establish criteria
for the design and selection of teaching and learning methodologies; to select appropriate strategies for using theses
ICT tools, and to select appropriate strategies for supporting development of subject matter knowledge in physics,
chemistry, biology, language and literature, art and history.
The concrete outcomes of the intTT project are methodologies (teaching methods/learning activities) and 6 CDs with
didactic activities and didactic suggestions for student teachers.
More information about the project can be found at: http://www.helsinki.fi/integralteacher/index.html
Financed by Lifelong Learning Programme 502769-LLP-1-2009-1-ES-COMENIUS-CMP, 2009 2012

I.6.3.2

These activities can help to develop subject content,

communicative and digital competences in pupils

SEARCHING AND GIVING LITERARY INFORMATION.

The house where he was born in Florence (Italy) in 1265

His tomb in Ravena (Italy), Dante died in 1321

Subject content:
Language, Literature.
Topics:
Main topic:
Dante.
Related to other topics:
other universal authors in English and in Spanish.
Content abilities:
Establishing interrelation among writers, connecting writers and their works.
Communicative competence/skills:
Oral expression, reading comprehension, writing, lexis.
Linguistic strategies:
Oral description, discussion, skimming and scanning, summarizing, guessing the meaning of
words from the context and explaining the meaning of words.
Digital Competence:
Using the blog and internet.
Transferable skills:
Interpreting images, giving information, observing and inferring information, selecting,
searching and organizing information, sharing information, leading to conclusions, use of
digital tools.
Transferable attitudes:
Autonomy in learning, collaborative work, group work, communication with other colleagues.

Think of the names of two other universal

authors, one is English and the other is
Spanish, and give the title of one work by
each author.

Try to describe these images, you can

prepare the discussion in groups.
P. Martn; L. Sierra. University of Alcal (Spain)

Look for some information in Internet

about
them,
select,
organize,
and
summarize this information in 10 lines for
each author. Then, add this information to
your blog.

P. Martn; L. Sierra. University of Alcal (Spain)

P. Martn; L. Sierra. University of Alcal (Spain)

Teaching History in Turkey: Lets prepare the best WIKI!

Five wikis on the following topics were developed by learners of History
International Political Factors of Proclamation of the Tanzimat Ferman
Internal Political Factors of Proclamation of the Tanzimat Ferman
Political Results of Proclamation of the Tanzimat Ferman
Effects of Proclamation of the Tanzimat Ferman on Social Life
Effects of Proclamation of the Tanzimat Ferman on Culture and Education

Project partners

Teaching science in Portugal: Lets develop WIKIS!

Communicative language competence (CC)

Linguistic competence is concerned with knowledge of the language itself, i.e. knowledge of, and ability to use
spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary, word formation, morphology, syntax, stylistics, semantics.
Sociolinguistic competence is concerned with the knowledge and skills required to deal with social dimension of
language use. The matters treated are those specifically relating to language use: linguistic markers of social
relations, politeness conventions, expressions of folk-wisdom, register differences between varieties of language
used in different contexts, dialect and accent.
Pragmatic competence is concerned with the learners knowledge of the principles according to which messages
are organised, structured and arranged (= discourse competence); used to perform communicative functions (=
functional competence);
sequenced according to international and transactional schemata (= design competence).

Wisophia
This wiki was developed with 9th grade pupils (13-15 years) studying electrical circuits. Pupils work
was done in the classroom and at home, in groups and individually. The pupils developed their
pages on a whole class wiki. The Physics and Chemistry teacher collaborated with the English
teacher. In this wiki there are other examples of activities carried out with pupils.
Lab-interativo
This wiki was developed with 8th grade pupils (12-14 years) studying acids and bases. The pupils
developed their pages on a whole class wiki.

Teaching English in Slovakia: Lets go VLE

Digital Competence (DC)

Digital competence involves the confident and critical use of information and communication technology (ICT). It
embraces the following types of skill:
Using data and information sources
Searching and selecting data
Organising and investigating data
Analysing processes
Assessing fitness for purpose
Refining and presenting information
Communicating

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Teaching with interactive web technologies
E-Portfolios
An e-portfolio is a type of learning record that provides evidence of achievement.
Forums, Blogs and Groups
These provide various styles of online discussion site where people can post messages and hold
conversations.
Wikis
A wiki is an online system that allows one or more people to build up a corpus of knowledge in a set of
interlinked web pages.
Video Conferencing

A video-conference involves a set of interactive telecommunication technologies.

Virtual Learning Environments
A VLE provides a collection of tools which may be employed for supporting learning, and may subsume several
of the interactive technologies featured above.

Teaching literature in Finland: Lets write WIKIS!

Literary genres (detective stories, horror stories and science fiction) Pupils are divided into
three groups. All members of each group sit apart from each other in the classroom, and everybody
has a computer. They search information on the given theme n the internet and in books. They
discuss their findings in wiki and make a sum-up of them. During the following two lessons, each
group has a new task. All information is collected and discussed.

Teaching science in England: Lets use videoconferencing!

Teacher education with videoconferencing