Teacher Resource Centre

This publication by the UNICEF Office of Innovation explores the transformative potential of mobile phones in education. It highlights how mobile devices, particularly messaging platforms, have become essential tools for learning continuity and accessibility. The guide emphasizes the role of teachers in advocating mobile learning, outlines pedagogical strategies for message-based teaching, and addresses ethical considerations, planning, and content creation. By leveraging mobile connectivity, educators can foster inclusive, flexible, and impactful learning experiences across diverse contexts. 

This resource part of UNICEF’s Superstar Teachers Toolbox, empowers educators to integrate technology meaningfully into their teaching. Designed for both novice and tech-savvy teachers, it offers practical strategies for planning and implementing digital pedagogy. The guide emphasizes learner-centered approaches, strategic use of digital tools, and pedagogical priorities. Structured into three chapters -planning, implementation, and additional resources- it supports educators in enhancing student engagement, creativity, and achievement through thoughtful digital transformation in education. 

This teacher training manual on Distance Education & Digital Pedagogy supports teachers and other education personnel’s continuous professional development in pedagogically high-quality distance education and remote learning especially in diverse, low resource contexts and is adaptable for use anywhere in the world.

The manual has been developed by Finn Church Aid (FCA) and Teachers Without Borders (TWB) Finland. The development of the training materials began already in 2020 as a response to the school lock-down situations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, when teachers and learners quickly had to adapt to remote education modalities. Even though the pandemic has subsided, the need for quality distance education prevails. Ensuring the continuity of learning for all learners is critical in all contexts, even and especially during crisis situations.

The training manual consists of eight (8) training modules that can be used flexibly:

1. Distance Education,
2. Distance Education Modalities,
3. Pedagogy of Digital and Distance Education,
4. Psychosocial and Emotional Wellbeing,
5. Learner-Centred Methods in Distance Education,
6. Home Support – Parents and Caregivers’ Role and Collaboration,
7. Inclusive Education, and
8. Assessment and Evaluation.

The content design allows the trainer or facilitator to pick individual modules or sessions and adapt the training content according to the context and target group’s needs.

We hope you find it useful!

Este recurso sobre ciudadanía digital ofrece definiciones clave y aborda problemáticas como la alfabetización digital, la convivencia en línea, y la protección y seguridad. Se exploran temas como la autorregulación, la privacidad, el discurso de odio, el cyberbullying y el grooming. Además, se fomenta la reflexión sobre noticias falsas, identidad digital y estereotipos, así como la creatividad y participación en el entorno digital. También se discuten los derechos digitales y la legislación relacionada con el uso seguro de Internet para niños y adolescentes en Ecuador.

Massey University and Open Polytechnic present a free webinar with ICDE Secretary General, Torunn Gjelsvik. The Secretary General will discuss international trends in distance and open education related to access, equity and scalability. Dr Mark Nichols from Open Polytechnic, the President of ICDE, will also join the conversation, together with Professor Giselle Byrnes, Provost of Massey University. There will be an opportunity for questions at the end of the session 

This pioneering curriculum presents a comprehensive competency framework of media and information literacy (MIL) and offers educators and learners structured pedagogical suggestions. It features various detailed modules covering the range of competencies needed to navigate today's communications ecosystem. This resource links media and information literacy to emerging issues, such as artificial intelligence, digital citizenship, education, education for sustainable development, cultural literacy, and the exponential rise in misinformation and disinformation. With effective use of this media and information literacy curriculum, everyone can become media and information literate as well as peer-educators of media and information literacy. 

This UNESCO model MIL Curriculum and Competency Framework for Educators and Learners is intended to provide education systems in developed and developing countries with a framework to construct a programme enabling educators and learners to be media and information literate. UNESCO also envisions that educators will review the framework and take up the challenge of participating in the collective process of shaping and enriching the curriculum as a living document. The first edition and this second edition of the MIL curriculum have benefited from several series of collaborative and intercultural expert debates and recommendations. The curriculum focuses on required core competencies and skills which can be seamlessly integrated into the existing education system without putting too much of a strain on overloaded education curricula. 

The target groups for the curriculum are essentially educators and learners. Educators and learners are understood in the broadest sense of the terms to include teachers at the secondary and primarily tertiary levels, persons involved in training or learning on all forms in NGOs, CSO, community centers, the media, libraries, online or offline. Given that the curriculum was developed with adaptation in mind, it can be used by various stakeholders interested in the field of MIL. Users may need to adapt the content to make it more relevant or accessible to specific target groups. The curriculum is also relevant to government officials and ministries, and other social and international development organizations.

This booklet presents a selection of ICT tools to integrate into teacher training in Uganda. Every tool is accompanied with creative ideas and suggestions on how to engage learners and enrich lessons.