REDES and the General-Directorate of Health (Direção Geral de Saúde - DGE) launch the 2nd edition of the Digital Academy for Parents (Academia Digital para Pais).
The digital literacy project gives parents and guardians the opportunity to attend training actions, promoting digital skills to facilitate their children's school monitoring and also contribute to their personal and professional development.
There are already 225 school groups enrolled in this 2nd edition, covering the entire Portuguese mainland. Interested parents must now enrol by October 22 at the schools attended by their children. The initiative is aimed at families of students from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles of Basic Education, covering two levels of training: basic digital skills and security and digital citizenship, in a total of up to 16 hours of free training.
The growing and accelerated digitization of society requires us to have new skills, as parents or educators, but also as professionals, citizens, consumers. At E-REDES, we are following this path, making electricity grids intelligent, and that is why we consider it essential to support families in this digital transition
The Directorate-General for Education, taking into account the balance of the 1st edition, aimed only at schools that are part of the “Educational Territories of Priority Intervention” program, considered the extension of the “Digital Academy for Parents” initiative to all schools, given the need to provide instruments to promote equal opportunities for families, in access to the digital, through training and an approximation to the school reality of their students. Thus, DGE, by joining E-REDES in promoting the “Digital Academy for Parents”, recognizes in this initiative an important tool not only for the digital training of families, but also for their full involvement in the Transition for Education Digital Plan
The training sessions will take place in the children's schools, on an after-work basis, and will be given by teachers and/or young students, on a voluntary basis. The programmed contents contemplate several themes and range from the basic procedures for using the internet, creating emails, consulting websites to the security precautions to be taken in digital environments.
Developed with the aim of supporting families in the context of distance classes imposed by the pandemic, the program, in its 1st edition (school year 2020/2021), benefited around 1,000 families and included 1,048 hours of training, involving 53 school groups, with 344 trainers and focused on schools in Educational Priority Intervention Territories (TEIP).
In this 2nd edition, which is starting now, the project reinforces contents and expands the initial universe of schools to other public education establishments, maintaining the objective of contributing to the personal and professional development of parents and to the educational success of their children.
The Digital Academy for Parents is based on the conviction that digital citizenship is essential for social inclusion.
