Teachers' Digital Resilience: Connotations, Framework and Pathways

Abstract

The integration of digital technology with education has brought both opportunities and challenges to the innovation of teaching methods for teachers. Digital resilience, as a crucial skill in the digital era, assists teachers in objectively identifying and addressing the challenges they currently face. This skill enables them to better adapt more effectively to digital education or navigate through digital survival. Teacher Digital Resilience refers to the positive mindset and adaptability that teachers de-monstrate when they encounter technological difficulties or challenges while using digital technology for education. Through the understanding and analysis of the concept and connotation of digital resilience, this paper constructs a framework for Teacher Digital Resilience from four dimensions: adapting to the environment, coping with challenges, self-adjusting, and seeking support. This framework is based on existing representative digital resilience frameworks, psychological resilience research, and the characteristics of the teaching profession. In the daily work of teachers, promoting digital resilience among educators can be achieved through self-awareness, resilience education, workplace lear-ning, and resource support.

Keywords

• teacher
• digital resilience
• digital resilience framework
• digital technology
• the digital age
• digital transformation