Hello Integrating Technology teaching colleagues,
Are you teaching or tutoring students whose sole or primary way to access the Internet is through mobile devices, smartphones or feature phones? Do you find that some students are not familiar with, or or skilled in using, one or more of the topics or tools below? Do you, and they, only have a few minutes for an introduction to these tools and, at most, an hour to learn how to use them? Do you wish there were a way, in just a few minutes, to introduce the topic or tool to an individual learner or a group, including in a virtual/online real time class or tutorial? Do you wish that there were short, free teaching and learning modules that you could use in peer-learning groups or learning circles?
If so, you might be interested in Connected Society's free "Mobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit". It includes these tools and topics that you can introduce using their "bitesize training modules"; for topics with an * there are also more in-depth (45-minutes to an hour) training modules.
Some "bitesize" (2 or – minute) training module topics or tools for students
- What is the mobile internet?
- WhatsApp*
- YouTube*
- Google*
- Wikipedia*
- Facebook*
- Online Safety*
- Cost
- Mobile Money*
- Android*
- Accessibility Features*
- KaiOS40*
There is also a rich appendix, 170 pages of how-to-do-it and other posters, cut-outs, info-sheets and course certificates.
Produced by GSMA, an international group of mobile operators, you will find the English version of the toolkit at https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/GSMA-Mobile-Internet-Skills-Training-Toolkit-2020-English.pdf
You can find an overview of the toolkit at https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/connected-society/mistt/download-not-subscribed/?utm_source=BenchmarkEmail&utm_campaign=ETCetera_12%2f11&utm_medium=email#mistt-module-2-whatsapp
If you look at the toolkit, or try out modules with your students, let us know what you think, and for what level students you think these are best suited.
Thanks to the World Education Ed Tech Center for bringing this to my attention.
David J. Rosen, Moderator
LINCS Community Integrating Technology group