College teachers developing 21st-century skills during a CPD course in Mexico
Abstract
"Being users of technology does not necessarily imply that teachers and learners can be competent and skillfully literate in digital educational environments. This qualitative descriptive case study has the objective to present the way a Continuous Professional Development (CPD) course enabled a group of teachers in a public university in Puebla, Mexico to gradually develop 21st-century skills. The course also had the objective to create opportunities for meaningful learning through a set of multimodal tasksemerged from the new literacies of virtual contexts. During the course, the college teachers had to create multimodal resources (e.g., a podcast and a video) which were appropriate for their diverse academic fields within the university. The group of college teachers developed their digital literacy by making use of skills such as collaboration, complex and critical thinking, and analyzing information. The results showed that this group of teachers waswilling to update their teaching skills in the middleof the pandemic, but they needed guidance and a safe environment that allowed them to feel confident so that they could teach in settings for which they were not fully prepared".