Orientation Workshop - Glossary of terms

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Orientation Workshop - Glossary of terms

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Didactic teaching / didactic instruction

Teaching by telling students about the subject; teaching by talking, explaining, demonstrating, lecturing, posing questions to students, answering students’ questions and conducting discussions with students. This is in contrast to teaching by helping students to learn through experimenting and reflecting, by getting students to do things rather than primarily listening to the teacher

*source: UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers - Glossary (page 92-94)

Digital

(As in digital content, digital devices, digital resources, digital technology) – essentially, another word for computers and computer technology.  (Computers store and process information by converting it all to single-figure numbers – digits)

*source: UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers - Glossary (page 92-94)

Digital citizenship

 Having the ICT equipment and skills to participate in a digital society, for example to access government information online, to use social networking sites, and to use a mobile phone

*source: UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers - Glossary (page 92-94)

Digital literacy

Basic computer skills such as being able to do word-processing or go online

*source: UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers - Glossary (page 92-94)

Digital tools

(As in ‘Matching digital tools and resources with learning objectives …’) – another name for ICT

*source: UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers - Glossary (page 92-94)

Drill-and-practice software

Computer programs which help the student to learn through repeated practice, for example to memorise vocabulary in a foreign language or to learn maths procedures

*source: UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers - Glossary (page 92-94)