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multiplication and division skills. This will help to define the training needs of the students.
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Activity no. 3: Digital skills assessment - Essential digital skills checklist
Total duration: approx. 30 min Group size: 5 – 15 students

In an increasingly digital world, information and communication technologies (ICTs) play a key
role in everyday life. There is a vital importance of meaningful connectivity to people’s
livelihoods, employment, health and wellbeing, education, and social participation. One of the
main barriers to greater uptake is a lack of skills required to use digital products, services and
content. In order to upskill peoples´ basic digital knowledge, educators need to carry out a
training needs assessment. The following checklist will help to do so.

Pre-work: Before the assessment session it is necessary to print out the essential digital skills
checklist attached as Annex II (it is downloadable from the project website). Each student will
need one copy.

Preparation (5 minutes) To warm-up, students are asked what they understand by digital skills.
Educators can use the checklist to trigger discussions about the different fields of digital skills.

Activity (15 minutes) Students are given a printed copy of the essential digital skills checklist
(which should have been already printed). They are told to fill out the checklist depending on
their own opinions and on whether they can complete the task developed in the first column.
They can choose among “I can do this”, “I can’t do this” and “I want to learn how to do this”.

Assessment (10 minutes): This checklist will provide the mentor different knowledge and
students’ points of view, as whether they are motivated to learn a specific item of the list or
even whether they already know how to fulfil that task. Once the educator has this information,
he will be able to adapt the training to the students and to programme the digital training in a
more detailed manner.

4.5 Handouts to be distributed to the participants
All the handouts are downloadable from the project website.