Introduction to the DigitalTurncourse

Mart Laanpere, Ph.D.

Senior researcher at the Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University

Call me Mart

• I am third-generation mathematics teacher

• Principal of a rural K-12 school 1992 – 1996

• Researcher in the Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University since 2003

• Ph.D. in educational science & technology

• Research interests: digital competences, pedagogy-driven design of online learning environments, digital textbooks, online assessment, smart schoolhouse, learning analytics, didactics of informatics

Practicalities

• Agenda and other files: GoogleDrive, Sync

• Apps: GDrive, EverNote, QRreader, Storyo…

• Communication: WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter?

• Sharing: GoogleDocs, Facebook, WhatsApp

• Personal app collection: EdShelf.com

• Contacts: Mart & James

• Documenting and reflecting: TodaysMeet.com

• Learning together, helping each other

• Certificates, EuroPass, badges

Population: 1.3 Million

Size: 45 227 km²

Capital: Tallinn

Language: Estonian

Ethnic Estonians: 69%

Member of EU: 2004

Currency: Euro (2011)

Public debt: 9% of GDP

Unemployment: 6%

Educational stats:

-532 schools

-14 000 teachers

-145 000 pupils

INFORMATION SOCIETY INDICATORS

• Over 80% of families have at home computer and broadband connection, independent to their SES

• 95% of income tax declarations submitted online, 99% bank transfers made online

• Online elections since 2005, over 30% e-voted in 2015 parliamentary elections

• iBanking, eHealth, ePolice, ePrescription, eSchool

• eResidency: https://e-estonia.com/e-residents

• Internet as a human right, free public wifi (500+ access points provided by municipalities)

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Success in OECD PISA

2009World / Europe

2012World / Europe

2015World / Europe

Maths 17 7 11 3-6 9 2

Reading 13 5 11 3-6 6 3

Science 9 2 6 2 3 1

The place of Estonia in the PISA ranking list (global and EU level)

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Strategy for Lifelong Learning 2020: action plan for Digital Turn in Estonian schools

• Digital turn in formal education system: digital culture into curricula, bottom-up innovation, sharing good practice, educational technologists in schools

• Digital learning resources: digital textbooks, OER, quality management, recommender systems

• Digital infrastructure for learning : 1:1 computing, BYOD, interoperable ecosystem of services, mobile clients, school-wide digital turn (first in 20 pilot schools, then in others)

• Digital competences of teachers and students: competence models, self-assessment tools, mapping with course offerings and accreditation procedures, updating initial teacher education curricula

https://www.hm.ee/sites/default/files/estonian_lifelong_strategy.pdf

Experiences from Samsung Digital Turn project 2014-2015

• Whole-school digital turn: focus on change management and pedagogical innovation (Fullan)

• Every school found their own focus (20 schools)

– Learners as creators: Kahoot, Geocaching, Digital storytelling, learner-created textbooks

– Systemic and sustainable change: formative assessment with e-portfolios, 3D-modeling

– Leadership: digital language immersion, regional lead

• Digital maturity self-assessment tool, peer-assessment between schools

Samsungdigipoore.ee

Quiz

• Go to http://Kahoot.it

• Enter the code you see on the screen and your name

• Respond fast

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