DIYlab: Fostering Digital Competence, Students' Agency, and Learning

• In Event: Roundtable Session 42
  In Roundtable Session: Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership

Abstract

This paper is part of a European research project based on the DIY philosophy, which seeks the development of authorship, agency, creativity, cooperation and sharing, and enables schools to foster digital competence and digital literacy among students and teachers. To achieve the project's objective, and to ensure the sustainability of change driven, we have followed a methodology based on the principles of collaborative action research (CAR). This paper focuses on the first steps of the CAR process and shows: a) how digital technology can be an agent of change in teaching and learning and, b) the main challenges identified by teachers, students and parents in order to implement the project in the current curricula and schools organisation.

Authors

• Juana M. Sancho-Gil, Universitat de Barcelona

• Fernando Hernandez-Hernandez, Universitat de Barcelona

• Raquel Miño-Puigcercós, The University of Barcelona