Teach Digital is a new project, funded by Erasmus+ and led by the UK based Go Woman Alliance, aimed at supporting migrant and ethnic minority women’s integration though development of digital skills and digital education.
Started in December 2020, the project involved several partners in the UK, Ireland, Spain and Lithuania, in order to identify best practices, find solutions and pilot methodologies aimed at boosting the digital skills of migrant women in order to support their exercise of labour, economic and cultural rights and Europe.
Increasing the digital skills and confidence of educators working with lower-skilled women from migrant and
ethnic minority background to implement appropriate learning strategies and digital tools that will make learning digital more attractive, relevant and boost their professional and personal development.
One of the characteristics of contemporary societies is the presence of information and communication technologies in all spheres of human relations: work, studies, friendships, family, tourism, business innovation. That is why in an information society- where most of us are immersed- demands digital literacy and changes the models, tools and languages we need to learn.
This is not just a new way of reading and writing, but a different systematic way of accessing and processing information, of selecting it and of being able to produce new messages. In this way, it seems like a simple exchange in the instrumental literacy system in which we learn the foundations of the new artifacts that human beings are able to build. However, if we consider digital literacy as a right to a new communicative competence, we can see it as part of a multi- literacy process that achieves higher levels of social participation and a decrease in the digital divide between info-rich and info-poor.
For this reason, it is important to reorient globalization in the use of the internet and other communication technologies towards the perception and construction of a cosmopolitan citizenry that is more inclusive in terms of cultural diversity, and free of racial, ethnic, geographical or gender prejudice.