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AWARDS

ÉVA SZALONTAI
CAREeR — Digital idea box for career counselling
One of the important segments of my pedagogical service is to help career
guidance at school. Within the context of group sessions, I regularly meet
students of diff erent age groups in primary schools, secondary grammar schools
and vocational training institutions. In my experience, the concentration of the

digital generation is decreasing, and motivation also varies from person to
person. Therefore, I try to make my school counselling activities enjoyable and
attractive to students, which is well suited with the ICT-based methodology.
I recommend the online Idea Box of live links as a gap-fi lling tool based on
my many years of professional experience. It includes tasks supporting career
guidance with ICT tools broken down to forms of work and adjusted to the needs
of the young generation. The method informs and at the same time it makes
students think. It keeps their attention, develops students’ future labour market
competencies (such as digital competence, presentation skills, collaboration,
and communication), encourages independent information acquisition, and
increases career awareness in a playful way.

The recommendations/ideas in the collection can be easily adapted even
by beginner ICT users. The websites used for tasks can also be opened with
smartphones, so students can work even with their own devices. The software
is free and available either in Hungarian or require minimum English language
skills. With some creativity, they can be used independently for career guidance
on a non-teaching working day or a theme week, as a project task, or even as
part of a classroom lesson. The tools and methods diff er by task type. The know-
how, i.e. the recommendation for solving each task, is always based on personal
experience.
The interactive tasks are tailored to the needs and expectations of the digital
generation and combine the two important aspirations of our time: digitalisation
and career guidance.

More info:
https://en.calameo.com/read/0052741639ed9fe86aa43

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