9 Essential Digital Skills for the 21st Century Teacher

In a digitally focused world, education is getting more and more digitized pushing us, teachers and educators, to re-conceptualize what it really means to be a teacher in the 21st century. Whether you are a technological determinist or instrumentalist, technology has become an essential force shaping much of our teaching and pedagogical practices. It has also placed a number of demands and exigencies on us and to meet these exigencies we need to develop a set of key digital skills. In the chart below, we cited 9 digital skills that we believe are fundamentally important for any teacher. This chart is based on a previous work we published here in the past.

Digital Skills	Tools
Record and edit audio clips	Soundcloud Audioboo Vocaroo Clyp
Create annotated, interactive and engaging  video content	Blubbr YouTube video editor Blubbr Teachem VideoNotes TED Ed Edpuzzle Wevideo Magisto
Create visually engaging content	Piktochart Canva Google Draw Glogster Thinglink
Use social networking websites to create PLNs,  connect , discover new content, and grow professionally	Twitter Facebook Google Plus LinkedIn
Use blogs and wikis to create participatory spaces for students	Blogger Wordpress Edublog Kidblog Wikispaces Weebly
Use Social bookmarking websites curate and  share resources with your class	Diigo Scoop.it Pinterest Edshelf Educlipper Symbaloo
Create Engaging presentations	Google Slides Haiku Deck Prezi Zoho Presentation
Create digital portfolios	SeeSaw Pathbrite Google Sites Silk Weebly
Create non-traditional quizzes	Testmoz Quizalize FlipQuiz Riddle QuizBean

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