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Are you interested in media education and digital competence? Proposing actions and strategies for teaching and research in the field of Media and Information Literacy topics are in the spotlight of an upcoming conference, divided into online and face-to-face parts, organized by the Spanish Ministry of Education.                 Firstly, the II...

Jørund Høie Skaug, FCL Ambassador, Norway   I think it´s fair to demand from a proper future classroom that it should have 3D holograms that students can interact with, like in a Star Trek movie. At the moment Microsofts Hololens costs $3000, and is only available to developers and early adopters. But even if a consumer version is a few years ahead, it´s very much possible at this...

by Elina Jokisalo, Future Classroom Lab, Brussels On 7 March 2017 European Schoolnet had the honour to take part in the official opening of the the “Aula del Futuro”, the future classroom created by INTEF of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. The project was inaugurated by the Secretary of State for Education, Vocational Training and Universities, Marcial Marín. ...

by Bart Verswijvel, Future Classroom Lab Pedagogical Adviser The International School of Brussels is a private K12 school, located in residential Brussels. The school, built on a hill next to the Boitsfort Ponds, is surrounded by the beautiful old trees of a small forest.   A few years ago the school decided to rethink the learning spaces of the school. The idea was to promote...

by Sergio González Moreau, Future Classroom Lab Ambassador, Spain   eTwinning is part of the EU programme for education, training, youth and sport - Erasmus+. Its goal is to promote and facilitate contact, exchange ideas and collaborative work between teachers and students of the 41 countries participating in eTwinning, through ICTs. Moreover, it fosters the exchange of ideas...

by Bart Verswijvel   On 10 and 11 November 2016 the Future Classroom Lead ambassadors and members of the Interactive Classroom Working Group of European Schoolnet went on a study visit to Copenhagen. We visited 3 venues with new learning spaces and we had a special interest on how new technologies and methodologies had been integrated.   The first day we went to the...

 by Maria Teresa Godinho Future Classroom Lead Ambassador for Portugal   Portuguese innovative educational spaces were presented at two big educational fairs. With the motto "Innovation - The Future is Today", the Directorate-General for Education (DGE) that coordinates these projects, was present both at Futuralia (Lisbon) and Qualifica (Oporto) exhibitions, which took place...

Freixo School Cluster is a public School located in Ponte de Lima Municipality, Portugal, with 700 students from K-9th Grade. Freixo School Cluster has been setting a consolidated path of innovation and technology integration in education.   Inspired by the Future Classroom Lab from European Schoolnet, the school has decided to go forward with one of their major challenges: to create...

by Tobias Heiberg UCC, Futureclassroomlab.dk   Media and technologies are inevitable conditions within the teaching profession. Professional understanding and application of technologies and media are thus a key element in the basic professional competences of the teachers of tomorrow.   That is why the European Schoolnet network around Future Classroom Lab aims at...

by Lasse Remmer, Future Classroom Lead Ambassador for Denmark   Two years ago, UCC was contacted by the Danish National Agency for IT and Learning (part of the Ministry of Education) and asked to take charge of implementing the Future Classroom Lab initiative under European Schoolnet. The Ministry required a Danish version that could help Danish teachers understand and use...

by Jørund Høie Skaug, Future Classroom Lead Ambassador for Norway   Virtual Reality has become hyped technology this year, with the launch of Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and the upcoming PlayStation VR. There are a lot of possibilities for VR in education but price is a barrier against mainstream use in classrooms for the foreseeable future. Oculus Rift ($599) and HTC Vive (€ 899) both...

By Yael Yaron, Tel-Aviv Distict ICT Supervisor, MoE and Karina Batat Future Classroom Lead Ambassador for Israel Beta School in collaboration with the ICT department in Tel Aviv district organized its 1st “Pedagogical Hackathon” on February the 9th 2016. Nineteen teams from 19 schools in the Tel Aviv District competed to design an activity aiming to raise awareness for Digital Citizenship...

by Jørund Høie Skaug Future Classroom Lead Ambassador for Norway   One of our goals in FCL Norway is to work more closely with and collaborate with stakeholders from Teacher Education Institutions. Several Teacher Education Institutions in Norway are interested in setting up their own Future Classroom labs, and a couple of weeks ago, our own department for Kindergarten and Teacher...

Karina Batat, Israel  Lead Ambassador and Iris Weintraub ICT School Leader    In today's technology world, to all three job offers have one candidate. Following this lack, a global movement called "The Hour of Code" raised with the aim to exposing everyone (from 4 to 104) in the world to code. The next two weeks tens of millions of students will experience coding in more...

By Maria Teresa Godinho, Future Classroom Lead Ambassador for Portugal    The Portuguese Directorate-General of Education (DGE), in partnership with European Schoolnet (EUN), is promoting the initiative "Learning Labs / Future Classroom Lab “.  It is intended to disseminate to teachers, schools and other educational providers, guidelines and resources produced by EUN that...

By Karina Batat Future Classroom Lead Ambassador for Israel   Programming has become a subject of increasing national awareness including primary education. In Israel, the Education Ministry and the Minister of Education, Naftali Bennett, encourage reinforcing science education and teaching programming through interactive games, in order to increase students' interest in technology,...

By Fernando Franco, DGE DGE is the General Directorate of Education of the Ministry of Science and Education of Portugal, which is responsible for setting educational policies for education, particularly with the spread of new methodologies and pedagogies associated with new technologies. One of its teams, ERTE, has the direct responsibility for the introduction of new technologies into...

By Hermann Morgenbesser, Future Classroom Lead Ambassador for Austria   Interpädagogica is Austria’s only trade fair for the education sector and is therefore the most important information hub for educators and all those interested in education. It offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments, concepts and innovations for the education market and is the sector’s...

By Jørund Høie Skaug, Senior Advisor at The Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education   The Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education hosted a two-day conference in Bergen on 27-28 October 2015 on coding and computer games and learning. Nearly 250 attendees, most of them teachers and teacher educators, came to hear international keynote speakers such as James Paul Gee, Ian Livingstone, and...

By Bart Verswijvel, Future Classroom Lab pedagogical adviser   The Future Classroom Lead Ambassadors are a group of professional European educators appointed by their Ministries of Education. Their role is to set up local informal networks for teachers and to promote initiatives and projects by European Schoolnet. Future Classroom Ambassadors organize or contribute to local events...

'Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!' – Sir Arthur C. Clarke   If there is one thing we can be sure of for the future, it is that new technology will be ever present. Indeed the promise of new technology has been with us throughout our lives, and will stay with us – even if the latest specific new technologies are constantly changing. This reality presents...

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In this blog we will read stories written by the Future Classroom Ambassadors, FCL network labs, teacher trainers, invited experts, etc. If you would like to submit a story to be published, please send it to fcl@eun.org.