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4th Workshop – 12th April 2011

- Quality Standards in ICT Education -

Improving ICT education in the telecentre, double perspective: HOW

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Telecentre and Social Organizations Academy

It offers the chance to be professionally trained, as well as to share/exchange knowledge and experiences

The aim is strengthening e-facilitators, ICT educators and social

organizations leaders capacities and skills, answering to their needs of initial and long-learning training.

Methodologies, competences, strategies to develop: better and more efficient motivation for citizens’ ICT empowerment.

With this “virtual academy” we want to share training opportunities, resources and projects that we have been designing and developing in Fundación ESPLAI since more than 10 years ago in a collaborative way.


http://moodle.esplai.org/moodle/

Resources for e-Facilitators


a. Practical Computer It is a manual designed for new users. It helps them to get familiar with the computer and with basic ICT

http://moodle.esplai.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=115

b. Safe Browsing in the telecentre 10 tips for browsing with safety in ICT/Internet Access Centres. It also has

associated materials to work with users

http://navegacionseguratelecentros.wordpress.com/

c. Practical Internet or Telematic Services Use Resources for helping telecentres’ users life. Contents organized in 50 cards http://usopracticodeinternet.wordpress.com/

Resources for Workshops


a. 7 steps for employability

The Workshops “7 steps for employability in the telecentre” is a methodology addressed to telecentres’ e-facilitators who want to promote their users employability and labor insertion actions

http://moodle.esplai.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=92

b. ICT barometer for employability The ICT barometer for employability is an online tool especially

designed to evaluate those skills and competences that facilitate the user’s employability, focusing on those related to ICT

http://navegacionseguratelecentros.wordpress.com/

Employability specific resources


a. We too, of course!!

Women and ICT Guide: We too, of course!! It’s a pdf format guide for women to learn about ICT uses

http://www.redconecta.net/publicos/Genero/Usar_ordenador_Internet.zip

b. Gender perspective in the telecentre Material developed by a team work composed of a number of e-facilitators

http://perspectivagenerotelecentro.wordpress.com/

Specific gender resources


a. Working with young people – Youth and values

Website created from a work team collecting strategies, resources and programs to be used by those e-facilitators or ICT educators working with teenagers and young people

http://www.conectajoven.net/valores/index.htm

b. Working with people with disabilities Disability and ICT accessibility in the telecentre. Material developed by a team

work composed of a number of e-facilitators

http://discapacidadytelecentros.wordpress.com/

Resources for specific groups


a. Conecta Network

Red Conecta is a social Project shared by a NGOs network, which aim is to promote social inclusión of everyone through ICT

http://www.conectajoven.net/valores/index.htm

b. Conecta Joven Conecta joven is a service learning project which promotes young people

participation in the community through volunteer digital literacy training for adults

http://discapacidadytelecentros.wordpress.com/

c. Conecta Community

Meeting and collaborative point for e-facilitators, leaders and coordinators of the 2 previous programmes

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Training courses offer: Running a telecentre

1. Organization and implementation of a Telecentre

Resources for those who run a telecentre. It is about strengthening the telecentre as a participative space for the community, using ICT as working tools.

2. Planning a digital literacy workshop

Methodological course to guide in the first steps of an educational workshop about digital literacy

3. Telecentre support resources

Basic guidelines for preparing manuals, schedules, posters and to set the most appropriate media and formats. Helpful resources to every day work in the telecentre

4. Training about concrete tools

Preparing to work different tools, software… with the final user (starting with Windows, Office, OpenOffice, Ubuntu Linux…

5. Safe Internet (under construction)


Training courses offer: Special groups

1. Teaching ICT to children

Resources to work at the telecentre with children aged 3 to 12, on the basis that ICT are not an end but a means to achieve an integral education to the children. It is about educating them on a healthy and proper use of technology.

2. Teaching ICT to teenagersResources to work at the telecentre with young people aged 12 to 18 This course seeks to provide insights into the crisis of adolescence as a stage-growth, performance limits, the risks of Internet,

entertainment 3. Teaching ICT to immigrants

Provide resources to work the values of multiculturalism in the telecentre and promote the integration of immigrants in the dynamics of participation, with ICT as the main tool.

4. Teaching ICT to elderlyPromote learning at any age. ICT improve self-esteem, establish new ways of communication, allow people to be more autonomous and to get to online (public) services. It is about suturing the digital gap in this group

5. Teaching ICT to people with disabilities What ICT can offer to disabled people, improving their social integration and autonomy, reflecting about our

attitudes towards people with functional diversity


Training courses offer: Specific subjects

1. The telecentre in a rural context

Telematic efforts, telecommuting, distance learning, specific applications for rural areas ... and also to foster a space for collective reflection on the role of telecentres in the rural world and how to promote these initiatives. .

2. Gender

This is a course in methodology which works to mainstream gender in the centre, defining by

gender the way of seeing the world from the equality between women and men.

3. Blog as a tool for telecentre development

Pedagogical possibilities of using the blog as an educational, participation, respect and social inclusion tool in the Telecentre and its surroundings.

4. Volunteering in the telecentre

Reflecting about the importance of volunteers, as a necessary tool for social transformation and participation in community life and why telecentres are an ideal place to incorporate them.

5. Values and education in the telecentre approaching the two key concepts: education and values the crisis of values

poses new challenges to be addressed by education, whether formal and informal.


The telecentre academy participates in the project that Telecentre.org promotes worldwide. This project join all the actions and initiatives from thousands of telecentre all over the world.

Collaborations and scalability

Fundación ESPLAI has

scaled this idea of the telecentre to

some Latin-American countries like

Colombia, where it is running very successfully.


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Documents

ict education http

ict education telecentre

th workshop belgrade

ict guide

ict educators

ict barometer

basic ict http

ict accessibility