Getting to know the Digital School
Providing computers and internet access is only the beginning.
We want all students, teachers, and schools to collaborate, teach and learn in a digital environment.
What is it?
Providing computers and internet access is only the beginning.
We want all students, teachers, and schools to collaborate, teach and learn in a digital environment.
Key initiatives to implement the Digital School in Portugal:
- Provide equipment and an internet connection to students, teachers, and schools
- Instruct and prepare teachers for a digital world
- Provide digital collaboration platforms and access to digital pedagogical resources for students and teachers
- Establish an action plan for digital development in each school
Benefits
Digital School boosts the adoption of digital technologies both in a family environment and in school communities with the goal of:
- Encouraging everyone’s digital inclusion
- Promoting gender equality in the digital world
- Helping teachers and schools modernize and keep updated with the latest digital technologies
- Increase the usage of digital educational content and resources
- Prepare students for an increasingly digital labor market
- Minimize the impacts of Covid-19 in schools
Check out the digital educational resources for each grade
Find out more about teacher digital training
Check out the support programs for schools’ digital development
Challenge children to explore the digital universe
Promotors
Coordinating entity:
Entities involved:
Additional resources
Portugal Digital Academy
The Portugal Digital Academy is launching in March 2022 so that all citizens, regardless of age, can improve their digital skills. We want to empower the Portuguese towards a + digital nation.
I am Digital
A program to help you take the first steps online and teach you how to use the internet.