Developing Teacher's Digital Skills Based on Collaborative Approach in Using Appropriate Digital Tools to Enhance Teaching Activities

Abstract

Digital Technology has been gaining tremendous impact on improving school education quality especially in teaching and learning techniques. In teaching, the process can start from preparing the teaching materials, teaching activities, communicating with students and evaluating student knowledge level. Digital technology can be used to improve and facilitate each stage of this teaching process. However, effectively selecting digital tools for used in each stage can be difficult for teachers especially the ones in non-IT field due to the knowledge of the digital tools, lacking digital skill as well as the limited experiences on how to use them in teaching activities. In many countries, their ministry of education has been providing digital tools and many trainings trying to help teachers to effectively utilize digital tools in their teaching activities; however, the tool selection and the training approach that were used still not effective enough that the tools were used effectively and non-productively in teaching process. This paper reports the result of the developing digital skill for teachers and how they can use digital tools in teaching activities or process. This report is also one part of the major research project supported by the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC) of Thailand. The digital tools were collaboratively selected by teachers in the project then trained by researcher team. The tool utilizations in teaching activities are designed, implemented and concluded by community of teachers in the project.