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iTEC magazine: Designing the future classroom Nº2

collaboration, competences and skills, interactive technologies, learning environments

In this magazine you can learn how the Future Classroom methodology has had an impact in classrooms across 20 countries, allowing schools to rethink how they are currently using ICT and close the ‘mainstreaming gap’ – when technology is not fully-integrated in teaching and learning, both inside and outside of school. The magazine was published by the iTEC project (EC-FP7 funded).

Future Classroom Scenario: Audio/Video Feedback

assessment, digital content

The Future Classroom Scenarios have been created within a pan-European iTEC project. The scenarios support teachers in introducing the principle of innovation into their teaching practice. This scenario is about using video or audio-recording equipment to record feedback given to a piece of student work.

Future Classroom Scenario: Create a Model

assessment, creativity, digital content, learning environments

The Future Classroom Scenarios have been created within a pan-European iTEC project. The scenarios support teachers in introducing the principle of innovation into their teaching practice. This scenario is about using models and visualisations to support an argument or to solve a problem.

Future Classroom Scenario: Digital Producers

assessment, collaboration, digital content

The Future Classroom Scenarios have been created within a pan-European iTEC project. The scenarios support teachers in introducing the principle of innovation into their teaching practice. This scenario is about using digital media to create 'broadcasts' of curricular work: presentations, classroom discussions and other school activities are captured and recorded through various means, they are then edited and uploaded to the web or to the VLE.

Future Classroom Scenario: GPS Enabled Learning Games

assessment, collaboration, game-based learning

The Future Classroom Scenarios have been created within a pan-European iTEC project. The scenarios support teachers in introducing the principle of innovation into their teaching practice. This scenario is about using GPS devices in geo-located treasure-hunts and developing location-based/alternate reality games.

Video: Regional Hubs for Collaborative Schools

collaboration, competences and skills, school leadership, teacher training

Regional Hubs are clusters to share good practices, and provide opportunities for closer mentoring and collaboration between schools. In the Living Schools Lab project regional hubs created a successful model for developing a mentoring and collaboration relationship between schools at a national and regional level. See here the video of six steps on how to set up your own regional hub!

Video "Interactive Classroom": IWB for global collaboration, Italy

1:1 pedagogy, collaboration, creativity, interactive technologies

The video has been created by the European Schoolnet's Interactive Classroom Working Group. The series of videos presents different ways of using ICT to enchange teaching and learning. In this video Francesca Panzica, an English teacher at the school of Santa Maria a Castagnolo, Italy tells us how she is using interactive whiteboards and other technology to reinforce collaboration in classroom and beyond it.

Video "Interactive Classroom": Knowledge building with ICT, Switzerland

1:1 pedagogy, collaboration, interactive technologies, teacher training

The video has been created by the European Schoolnet's Interactive Classroom Working Group. The series of videos presents different ways of using ICT to enchange teaching and learning. Olivier Conus, a primary school teacher at Chatonnay, Switzerland, explains in this video how he has carried out a lesson on animal classification with the help of ICT. The video is in French and available with English and German subtitles.

Video "Interactive classroom": Easier fractions, Norway

1:1 pedagogy, competences and skills, game-based learning, interactive technologies

The video has been created by the European Schoolnet's Interactive Classroom Working Group. The series of videos presents different ways of using ICT to enchange teaching and learning. In this video you will discover how ICT is used to teach students fractions with the help of ICT in a Norwegian secondary school.

Future Classroom Scenario: Mind mapping the soil

collaboration, learning environments

The Future Classroom Scenarios have been created within a pan-European iTEC project. The scenarios support teachers in introducing the principle of innovation into their teaching practice. This scenario is to use mind-maps and related approaches as a powerful tool for learning, in particular to promote deep understanding while at the same time encouraging a cross-curricular approach.

Guidelines: 1:1 computing initiatives in schools

1:1 pedagogy

The guidelines identifies fifteen areas that schools will need to consider as part of their implementation of 1:1 technologies. The guidelines are available in eight languages. The guidelines were developed as part of the Acer-European Schoolnet Educational Tablet Pilot.

Training material: Collaborative schools development

digital leaders, school leadership, teacher training

The 'Collaborative schools development' concept and materials have been developed within an EC-funded Living Schools Lab project. The course is based on evidence gathered from school visits, teachers, focus groups, and experts in 12 European countries.

Video "Interactive Classroom": ICT to improve communication skills, Ireland

1:1 pedagogy, competences and skills, interactive technologies, teacher training

The video has been created by the European Schoolnet's Interactive Classroom Working Group. The series of videos presents different ways of using ICT to enchange teaching and learning. In this video you will discover how ICT is used to reinforce teaching Irish at the Colaiste Pobail Caislean Cnucha, Dublin, Ireland.

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The resources directory includes resources for teachers including classroom practice videos, Learning Activities, Future Classroom Scenarios and publications (reports and guidelines). These resources have been created in different European Schoolnet projects including iTEC, Living Schools Lab, Creative Classrooms Lab, Europeana DSI2 and DSI3, FCL Regio, and by the Interactive Classroom Working Group. Registered users can submit their own innovative resources to be considered for publication.

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