Digital Mentor Power

The pandemic and lockdown situation in the school sector resulted in an unplanned and rapid move to online learning with no digital training, insufficient digital skills, and little preparation of...

The main goal of the Digital Mentor Power Project was to improve the learning process in EU schools by enhancing the digital skills and competences of European Teachers through the development of the Digital Mentor Power Platform: This goal has been reached by: 1) identifying teachers who are skilled in a range of digital skills and different digital tools. 2) identifying teachers who need digital trainin. This teachers can support their colleagues with resources and advice regarding pedagogical methods. Thereby, the platform and its growing network of teachers represents a win-win situation for all participants. 3) reach and engage a massive number of school teachers on both sides of the “Digital Skills divide”. 4) build a rich database of digital tools and pedagogical resources where teachers can select and receive an Individual Master Class from their paired Mentor and vice-versa, or download resources (such as videos or guides) to learn about a certain digital tool. 5) make use of the available EU tools and incorporate them into the project's result or activities. There are: SELFIE for teachers, the European School Education Platform and Europass.

The project has produced an effective project result that provides a practical solution for the digital gap of European teachers and the quality their of online classes. This Project Result is the Digital Mentor Power Platform. The Digital Mentor Power Platform is an innovative tool that enables teachers to learn technological competencies and find new ways to tailor technogology to their specific subject by exchanging knowledge in a 'peer learning' concept with other EU teachers who are skilled in a range of digital skills. In return, teachers who receive the digital training can support Digital Mentors with resources and advice regarding pedagogical and teaching methods. The Digital Mentor Platform is a place where both Digital Mentors (teachers who offer training) and Pedagogical Experts (teachers who need digital training) can register, meet and pair up and will also contain a rich database of digital tools or pedagogical advice where teachers can select and receive an individual Master Class from their paired Mentor and vice-versa. The main output of the project can be seen here: https://dmpower.erasmus.site/platform/login