The European Digital Competence Framework DigComp will receive an update. DARE was involved at various points: With our proposals for Learning Outcome descriptions, in the Community of Practice and currently with a contribution to the Europe-wide consultations. The aim is to publish the next version – DigComp 3.0.
It is important to us that learning for digital transformation not only focuses on skills, but also does justice to the fundamental nature of transformation. We in the EU live in democracies and therefore the questions are central:
- How can we shape digitalization democratically?
- And how can digitalization contribute to more democracy?
Essential are citizens who think constructively and critically, who are curious, who understand how digitalisation works, who know their rights and know how to demand them.
AI, platformization, the transformation of the infosphere, the impact of technology on climate change – education needs to take all of this on board and make it pedagogically accessible.
In this sense, we are very much in favor of the revision efforts and thank the JRC also for taking note of our opinions so far. However, it is time that the socio-political dimension of digital learning is no longer recognized as a “nice addition” but as a hard competence that helps citizens to cope with change and to consciously help shape it.
Our attention is particularly focused on those who, through their participation in debates, as programmers of open and free software, or as committed educators engage for diversity in the Internet ecosystem and for alternatives to monopolist platforms.
More information:
Nils-Eyk Zimmermann | zimmermann@adb.de