Materials

• PDF: "Digital skills under the spotlight"

• Paper, pencil/pen or mobile phone

Step by step

• 1. Introduce the activity: 

This activity is about digital skills, how they are organized, and what European adolescents say about their own digital skills. 

• 2. What are digital skills?

Point out that having digital skills means that a person is able to use technology (such as computers, smartphones and tablets) in ways that improves their  life and the lives of others. It means that a person can use technology to achieve positive results and to minimize negative effects.

• 3. How digitally skilled are you? (for individuals)

Each participant ticks the internet activities they don't know how to do, or know how to do more or less, or know how to do well. 

Please point out that there are no right or wrong answers. 

• 4. Packing digital skills 

Explain the four groups of digital skills. 

Individually or in small groups, participants pack the activities of task 3 into the four groups of digital skills. 

• 5. European adolescents' digital skills

Present the results emerging from the ySKILLS survey in six countries (2023).

Reflect about the European adolescents' results and their own results.   

Examples of questions:

Were you surprised by some results? What surprised you the most?

• 6. Improve digital skills 

Discuss solutions to increase the less mentioned digital skills.

Examples of questions:

How can we increase navigation and information skills? 

What is needed to increase content production skills? Videos, workshops, texts or other examples? 

Who might benefit from your suggestions?

Image copyrights: cover photo by Agence Olloweb from Unsplash; mobile phone photo from Freepik.