DIGITAL COMPETENCE FOR CITIZENS. TOWARDS A 0 DIGITAL DIVIDE. CREATION AND TRAINING OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE IN TERRES DE L’EBRE

The objectives we set for this project are the following:

1. Create a community of practice with key players of the territory, for the development of digital competence for citizens.
   1. Provide recommendations for a sustainable, digital, or social innovation in makerspaces.
   2. Create a digital resource center to support the content and strategy of the community of practice for the development of digital competence for citizens.
2.  Promote digital competence for citizens through online and blended training sessions.
   1. Contribute to reducing the digital gap through a training program aiming at a safe, critical, and ethical use of digital technologies.
   2. Promote a culture of responsibility of adults vesus the safe use of digital technologies in non-formal and informal training contexts and at home.

Goal 1. Creation of regional communities of practice for the development of digital competence (November to January 2021)

• T1.1. Definition and creation of communities of practice.

Goal 2. Creation of a resource center for citizens that could be freely accessed (November to March 2021)

• T2.1. Design and development of the structure of the digital resource center (November-December-January)
• T2.2. Definition of the criteria for the selection and publishing of resources (November-December-January)
• T2.3. Presentation of the resource center project and first call for collaborators (January-February-March)

Fita 3. Creation of a collection of short training videos (January to June 2021)

• T3.1. Select the content of the short training videos
• T3.2. Design and develop the training sessions to be conducted online and in makerspaces
• T3.3. Implement the training program

The project will allow us to obtain five final products that will be an asset to the territory:

• The main objectives of the communities of practice will be to promote the development of digital competence for citizens.
• The identification of Makerspaces in the territory can be useful for other training programs related to digital skills development.
• An open resource bank available to both specialists and public, organized systematically.
• Short training videos, both distance and face-to-face training, for the development of digital competence for citizens.
• Awareness-raising actions in society aiming at making people aware of the need to develop teacher digital competence to face situations of crisis, as the COVID-19 pandemic in which mobility was significantly reduced and all processes were digitalized.

Oral presentation:

• Hernández-Escolano, C., Esteve-González, V., Gisbert-Cervera, M.,  Molero-Aranda, T., Lázaro-Cantabrana, J.L.,  Holgado-Garcia, J., y Palau-Martín, R. (27-29 de octubre de 2021). Competencia digital para la ciudadanía: hacia una ‘Brecha digital 0’ proyecto piloto en las Tierras del Ebro (Tarragona). [Presentación oral]. II Fòrum internacional d'educació i tecnologia. Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Espanya.

Book chapter:

• Hernández-Escolano, C.; Esteve-González, V. y Gisbert Cervera, M. (2022). Competencia digital para la ciudadanía: hacia una «Brecha digital 0»: proyecto piloto en las Tierras del Ebro (Tarragona). En Carme Grimalt-Álvaro, Luis Marqués-Molías, Ramon Palau, Josep Holgado, Cristina Valls y Carme Hernández-Escolano (coords.). Tecnología educativa para los retos de la era digital. pp 161-172. Editorial Octaedro.