Objectives: Better understanding of the barriers to and difficulties with adult people learning of digital skills.
Preparation: 3 coloured cardboard cards (size ¼ of A4 or A6 size) for each participant, Marker-s for each participant, Whiteboard or flipchart, scotch tape
Total duration: About 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Description of implementation:
Step 1
The trainer gives each of the participants 3 coloured cardboard cards (size ¼ of A4 or A6 size). The trainer asks the participants to write on the cards the 3 most important challenges to adult people acquiring digital skills according to him/her (1 challenge on each card). When the participants are ready they come and stick the cards to the whiteboard or the flipchart with scotch tape (paper scotch). All the participants, under the moderation of the trainer or of representatives of the participants, group the challenges into 4-5 groups of challenges.
Step 2
Learning at Stops Method (LSM):
The trainer writes the names of the groups of challenges on flipchart papers, sticks also the cards belonging to the respective group on the left side of the flipchart papers, so that the right one is free for writing and hangs the paper on different places in the room (walls, doors, flipchart – be careful for leaking of ink). The papers are called Stops. The trainer asks each member of the group to go to each Stop, read the challenges and the ideas, that are already there (if there are any), discuss with the other trainees which are at this stop at the moment and write at least 1 suggestion per stop on how to overcome this group of challenges. After all the trainees have visited each stop the trainer or some of the trainees summarize for the whole group the possible actions for overcoming the identified challenges.
Tip: This activity is suitable to be done before the trainer presents the theoretical part about barriers and challenges and how to overcome them. In this way the trainer can skip in the presentation the themes/ideas that have already been discussed.
