European Schoolnet: Collaboration and Exchange in technology enabled education
Premysl Velek
11 September 2013, Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic
1. SURVEY OF SCHOOLS: ICT IN EDUCATION
2. COLLABORATION THROUGH ICT
3. INNOVATION IN ICT-BASED EDUCATION
4. TEACHER TRAINING
TOPICS
Transforming education in Europe
Network of 29 Ministries of Education
Support schools in bringing about the best use of technology in learning
Promote the European dimension in schools and education
Raise the quality of education in Europe
www.eun.org Brussels, Belgium
SURVEY OF SCHOOLS: ICT IN EDUCATIONBenchmarking access, use and attitudes to technology
in Europe’s schools
Detailed review on ICT use in schools: Carried out in 2012 190,000 responses 27 European countries
Students use ICT most frequently during lessons when they are taught by digitally confident and supportive teachers, regardless of equipment levels.
Students use ICT for learning more outside than inside school.Around 70% of students are taught by teachers who have
learnt about ICT in their own time.Most teachers still use ICT first and foremost to prepare their
teaching and fewer use technology with students in lessonsThere are on average over 100 students per IWBLow use of digital resources: more that 50 % of students at all
grades never (almost never) use such resources
SURVEY OF SCHOOLS– MAIN FINDINGS:
Strenghtening public action – building capacity for ICT pedagogical expertise at school level - professional development opportunities for teachers
Pedagogical support for teachersProfessional collaboration among teachers
www.eun.org/observatory/surveyofschools
SURVEY OF SCHOOLS – BOTTOM LINE:
BRIEFING PAPERS
Present the findings of the Survey of Schools: ICT in Education on a specific topic
www.eun.org/observatory/surveyofschools
COLLABORATION VIA ICT - CONTENT EXCHANGE • Learning Resource Exchange (LRE): federation of
resource repositories • more than 50 different content providers• more that 200,000 OERs• over 30 languages
• Scientix repository: Resources in STEM education • 200 STEM projects• ~ 1,100 resources• Common core: inquiry based learning and the
use of ICT in education
LEARNING RESOURCE EXCHANGE
• Exchange platform for national portals• Public service for teachers/school
since 2008
http://lreforschools.eun.org
Travel well concept
1. Transnational topics2. Knowledge of specific
language not needed3. Specific software not needed4. Methodological support not
needed5. Intuitive and easy to use6. Interactivity7. Clear licence status
SCIENTIX REPOSITORYwww.scientix.eu/web/guest/resources
Content providers:STEM education projects funded by EU programmes
or by various (inter)national initiatives• 200 STEM projects carried out in the past 10 years• Over 1,100 resources
Translation on demand – user driven localisation of OERs:
• 1,071 requests• 440 of them accepted
Scientix 1 2009 - 2012
Scientix 2 – start in 2013
Reaching out to national teacher communities -
Scientix National Contact Points
INNOVATION IN ICT BASED EDUCATION Examples of Scientix projects: Go-Lab and Global Excursion:
remote control and online science labs in science education
University of Cambridge (UK): Various kinds of electronic microscopes
Doñana (Spain): Cameras, microphones, sensors for wildlife
SZTAKI (Hungary): Earthquake equipment, Digital production, ..
BIFI (Spain): Simulations, e-Equipement
Global excursionExtended Curriculum for Science Infrastructure Online
ViSH: Virtual Science Hub http://vishub.org
Global excursionExtended Curriculum for Science Infrastructure Online
• Provide access to e-Infrastructures and selected labs & resources• Create teaching use cases, pedagogical & technical artefacts
Rich media mash-up: • text, images, videos, • remote access elements: cameras, sensors,
controlers
Go-Lab Global Online Science Labs – Inquiry Learning at School19 partners, among which European Space Agency or CERN
• Access to remote and virtual labs for schools• Access to research data and archives• Structured learning environment based on
inquiry• Focus on pedagogical framework – IBSE• Integration into school curricula
www.go-lab-project.eu
COLLABORATION VIA ICT - COMMUNITY FOR SCHOOLS
eTwinning, www.etwinning.net
• 208,210 Teachers • 107,132 Schools • 5,752 active projects
TRAINING IN ICT
fully equipped, reconfigurable, teaching and learning space
Showcase of emerging and new technologies supporting education
TRAINING IN ICT
Courses in the Future Classroom Lab iTEC courses eTwinning CPD courses inGenious and Scientix workshops
Topics : Use of Interactive Whiteboard Esafety in teaching and learning Future Classroom Scenarios STEM in the future classroom Creative use of multimedia
http://fcl.eun.org
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