Up-to-date in digital everyday life

Dranbleiben- news on digitalisation by fit4internet consists of a series of short contributions to self-directed learning in micro-portfolios. Each contribution provides essential know-how for digital life. The contributions are assigned to the areas of competence and sub-competences of the Austrian DigComp AT Skills Model.

A valuable resource

With this resource you will stay informed about the latest advancements in digitalization and digital literacy through exploration of concise articles covering diverse topics. These include enhancing digital competence for everyday life, navigating through the digital information overload, recognizing the value of ongoing digital skills training, gaining insights into the digital future, and understanding the boundaries of digitalization. 

The contributions

The contributions provide information on what is needed to be digitally competent in everyday life, what we expect in the digital future, where the digital information fills out, why it is worth continuing to learn digitally and also where the limits of digital are. Each contribution contains further links to the depth of the topic. In addition, an explanatory text is linked to each sub-competence, which shows the nature of each sub-competence and its relevance to everyday life. Contributions can be sorted by area of competence. 

The learning resource targets people with basic digital skills and aims to achieve level 4 (‘self-employed’) according to the DigComp AT competence model. It is a resource for basic digital education.The following competencies will be covered:

• Basics and access
• Information and data management 
• Communication and cooperation 
• Creation of digital content 
• Security 
• Problem solving and learning 

The page is available in English and in German, and most of the contributions have been summarised in English in a compendium.