The project's aims are to make an inventory of methods and tools and to collect examples of good practices from the partner organizations on how they use digital means for teaching low skilled adults. By sharing our knowledge we will find out in two years time what method (pedagogical/androgagogical) and which digital tools are the most relevant for the partner and the target group. Facilitators and organizations delivering non-formal learning to low skilled adults feel the urge of becoming familiar with the most recent digital tools and means for enhancing learning and they need an upskilling for keeping up with the latest technology and digital trends in combination with new teaching methods, adapted to the 21st century. The low skilled adults have a serious need for new methodologies, fitting the demands of the 21st century. Adults will enhance and broaden their access to new possibilities for education and the labour market, not only in the own region but also abroad. The project offers individuals with low levels of basic skills the opportunity to improve those skills by utilising new ways of learning., or to guide them towards a qualification, moving from the idea of classroom teaching to a fundamentally different approach where ICT solutions play a large part. The PISA report of the OECD makes it clear that it is necessary to learn basic skills in order to fully participate in “the hyper-connected, digitized societies of the 21st century.” (http://www.oecd.org/pisa/) and one of the basic skills is clearly the use of ICT for problem solving in technology rich environment according to another OECD survey on adults skills (PIAAC). As part of the European New Skills Agenda, the 'upskilling pathways' initiative is one that each Member State has to implement for itself. We aligne with the ambitions and objectives of the Lifelong Learning Platform "Education in a digital world" and it reflects the European Union Agenda, namely the launch of the Digital Skills for Jobs Coalition under the New Skills Agenda for Europe, adopted in 2016. We want to ensure universal acces to education in a digital word and this project is the first step to reach that goal.
We made an inventory of methods and tools and we collected examples of good practice trough a designer platform named Smore (https://www.smore.com/6mfav). moreover, we produced an Inventory of digital tools and methods and survey results. We decided to stop finishing the Smore and produce the written document Inventory of digital tools and methods and survey results because we emphasized more on the pedagogical aspects in the last part of the project. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iEfiUlmTYZT2_nMXU6bGwQuDJFmwknRz) The "Learning Training Teaching Activity" meetings were attended by 2 participants from each partner organization, both teachers and volunteers. These participants instructed 5 colleagues about how to use this tool in working with the target group, therefore an "oil slick" effect in using digital tools took place in the partners' organizations. During these meetings, the representatives from each partner presented different digital tools, together with new teaching methods and suggestions on how to use these tools in class. By sharing our knowledge we learned what methods (pedagogical/andragogical) and which digital tools are relevant for our target group. At the LTTAs each partner presented one digital tool for using in teaching and learning and trained the other partners in using this tool. Overall, 28 tools were presented during the LTTAs. So during those two years those who participated in the LTTAs as well as the colleagues at home learned how to use 28 digital tools in teaching and learning, tried them out and valued their usability for their own learners. All this work had a real impact on our organizations. Now we know more about which tools we can actually use within our educational settings and with our target group of low skilled learners. This has also given us an important opportunity to collect information so we are better equipped to guide low skilled adults towards a qualification with a different approach using ICT.