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Technological progress and digital society are evolving in an expiral of opportunities in such diverse areas as education, employment or social interaction and requires, concomitantly, digital responsible citizens. The emergence of the "digital media" significantly shifted the concept of "friends" and the notion of privacy is increasingly blurred.
Therefore, it becomes increasingly necessary following the changes of social paradigms and raising awareness each individual to the fact that belonging to a digital society entails appropriate behaviors of digital citizen and the appropriate use of technology, with full respect for the principles and values ​​that make him feel dignified, and other members of the digital community with which he interacts, as a citizen of an increasingly digital world.
So, its crucial enhance students' digital skills for the 21st century.

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... before leaving... for a while, I hope...

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... before leaving... for a while, I hope...

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... once again it is time to reflect on all the way and all the work done.
This MOOC was truly superb, too: the work of instructors [a special applause for Ollie], collaboration, resources, ideas and all the knowledge that was generously shared for all participants ... Many, many thanks!
To the European Schoolnet Academy a very special thank you for another great learning opportunity. The MOOC is very well structured, with amazing, engaging and challenging tasks and, although very demanding and laborious, provided important learning for teachers' professional development.
My only and stormy obstacle (as always): time !!! Even do, thank you very much!

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Here is my Learning Designer Lesson plan.

Thanks in advance for your comments!

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"Increase value first, get rewarded after!"

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"Increase value first, get rewarded after!"

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Plenty of students may know how to create digital media, but…

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How to Teach Internet Safety to Younger Elementary Students

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How to Teach Internet Safety to Younger Elementary Students

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There are three considerations when addressing Internet safety with these students.

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Challenges and Resources

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 How to
Teach Students to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information

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 How to
Teach Students to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information

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What Students Currently Think of Online Information

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How might we use social media in our classrooms?

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How might we use social media in our classrooms?

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Teachers are now all pretty much entrenched in social media use, personally and for their own professional learning.

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Technology is a tool–a platform, a tactic, a strategy, and a space, but–unless you’re teaching a technology class–never an end.

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The Benefits of Students Teaching Students Through Online Video

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The Benefits of Students Teaching Students Through Online Video

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“Whenstudents explain it and they have a way to make it extremely relevant to your life and show you how this actually relates to you specifically, that can make the material really exciting,”

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Using Digital Games for SEL Assessment and Skill Building

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5.3. Social Media in the Workplace + 5.4. Internet Safety and Responsible Use

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5.3. Social Media in the Workplace + 5.4. Internet Safety and Responsible Use

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These two topics are closely connected, since almost any job in the very next future will depend on Internet in any way.
So, it is very important that schools prepare students to the responsible use of the Web: how to communicate, how to be polite (the netiquette rules), the necessary respect for privacy and the awareness of the risks of the digital footprints, the respect for copyright...
The "commonsensemedia.org/ " has a lot of resources we may use as teachers / educators (Professional Development) who embrace "technology safely, responsibly and effectively in service of student learning, just to teach digital literacy and citizenship skills (Digital Citizenship).

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“If Google doesn’t know who you are, then basically, it doesn’t know that you exist.”

Well... I quoted this sentence because it really means a lot about social media. In one way or another, we all used it for different purposes. So, it is a door of opportunities for teachers and for students.
Through social media, teachers can increase their professional development through e-learning courses, digital communities (of practice, open or closed), for example, and update their pedagogical knowledge and enhanced teaching by using technology. Consequently, students can benefit from the knowledge of teachers and learn how to use social media responsibly. This also means that they can become more responsible citizens and better future workers.

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Technology Introduces New Forms Of Experiential Learning

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Technology Introduces New Forms Of Experiential Learning

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What is experiential learning, what is its context, and how is it being impacted by
technology?

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A Visual Guide to Evaluating Sources on the Web

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A Visual Guide to Evaluating Sources on the Web

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 5. How to use
social media? 

Introduction

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 5. How to use
social media? 

Introduction

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- More teachers enthusiastic in using ICT.

- More collaboration in this isssue. - Tablets that could be used for those students who can't get their own...
- ...

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4.6. Educational
Robotics - Introduction  +  







4.7. Educational
Robotics - Getting Started Activities

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4.6. Educational
Robotics - Introduction  +  







4.7. Educational
Robotics - Getting Started Activities

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No experience at all with Robotics.
In the school tha I teach, I don't think it will be used in the very next future.

But I think it might be very interesting to build a project involving a lot of subjects: languages, to practice writing to giving instructions; math, to working with sequential and critical thinking, problem solving...

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4.4. App
Development - Getting started + 4.5. App
Development - Touch Develop

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4.4. App
Development - Getting started + 4.5. App
Development - Touch Develop

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I never create an app, not even my students did it too.

I'm teaching students who have final examination and I do not see it as a possibility, because I have lots of specific subjects to teach.

Nevertheless, many thanks Ollie for all these new ideas and tools. I wish I could have time to try "Touch Develop". It seems to be very interesting...

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4.3. Coding - Links
to other subjects

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4.3. Coding - Links
to other subjects

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In my teaching area, I think it might be interesting to use coding to teach grammar, to build characters profile students got from a book they're reading...

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4.2. Coding - Pair
Programming

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4.2. Coding - Pair
Programming

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Well... it's too hard to teach something that we know almost nothing about...
No, I never tried to teach coding, but I'v already prompt some of my students to take part in "the hour of code"...

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 4.1. Coding -
Getting Started

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 4.1. Coding -
Getting Started

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I agree that "Coding is the new literacy". Not today, maybe not for the very next few years to come, because its teaching depends largely on the government's vision of each country and the knowledge that teachers have on "coding". But we can not continue to ignore all the potential that the use of "coding" plays in learning: students start to look at their technological devices as something more useful and connected to the reality that surrounds them, while also develop skills required to act in the same reality that is /will be their future.
I feel I need to learn even much about "coding".

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4. How to programme
machines? 

Introduction

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4. How to programme
machines? 

Introduction

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At the school where I work, I like to teach my students, to engage them in interesting activities and to challenge them to use their technological devices to learn. Often, this happens outside the classroom.

I regret that in Portugal, the use of technology is not officially integrated across the curriculum and that there are some legislation that forbids schools and students to use their technological devices in the classroom. Whenever I can, I try to use it. But I teach in a secondary school and time is always to short to teach all subjects, even trying to introduce the technology.

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 4.8. Internet of
Things

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 4.8. Internet of
Things

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I must thank Ollie for all those tools, resources, platforms, etc. that he shared with us and also for the way we may use them with our students during our lessons. I have not enough time to try all of them, though I took a close look at some of those that could interesting me more. But what I really liked in this MOOC was the way were warned and made aware to the required use of digital skills in the near future and how important this is for us and for our students. After all, Internet is in every "Things".

So, after all, the main pointis really about the "Internet of Things": "The future of work is YOU".

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Unfortunately, I could not attend the Webinar, because I was working.
But I appreciate the availability of video as it is very interesting.
________________________ Here is the list of tools mentioned by Edgars during the webinar: · For 3D apps:
- http://www.3dvia.com/products/3dvia-shape/
- Adobe 123 site - for simple toools online (webbased and works grate and again - ready for 3d printing): http://www.123dapp.com/
· Here are more advanced toools:
- http://www.sketchup.com/

- http://www.autodesk.com/products/inventor/overview

- http://www.autodesk.com/products/3ds-max/overview

· All of the tools mentioned above are free for use! (Last ones are free for educational licence) - all of them have model libraries to download from ready models! · Another site great for 3d models and 3d travels is google earth project - earth.google.com - which offers ancient cities to explore in 3d! (as example - Rome as it was in history).

· For creating maps - maps.google.com/mymaps

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I think that using games in the classroom depends on the subject you have to teach.
I use some games already proposed for some subjects (like building narratives “in 4 or 6 hands”), but I never built any game, especially since it takes time and also because I'm teaching classes of a secondary school who have a final exam, which complicates a little bit the use of games.
Nevertheless, sometimes I use Storyboard That, because lets you create digital stories (also folowing the right clues) on multiple devices and the students find it amazing.

But I would like to have more time to prepare different games, especially to assess critical thinking.

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I've already implemented at school a project of a reflective learning ePortfolio using Google sites. the project lasted one year and involved a whole class and all it's teachers. Each student and each teacher had to build it's own ePortfolio (teachers built a professional development ePortfolio).

Each student was free to choose the layout, since all subjects of the curriculum were represented, and include learning objects that respond to the teachers' prompts and each ePortfolio should also include a blog (Google sites allows it) to reflect on their learning process / experience.
It was an amazing experience because students started discovering awesome potentialities of the tool and began teaching it to the teachers.
I like Google sites, but I want to try some of the tools that Ollie mentioned, since they seem to be quite interesting.

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3.3. Audio and
Video

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3.3. Audio and
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I like to use SoundCloud for some podcasts about pieces of texts students are supposed to work on. On the
other hand, they like to use Voki for small oral presentations or PowToon, Prezi… for more elaborated activities, particularly when they need to embed videos, images...
We can use these tools in a PC, a Laptop or a tablet.

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 3.2. Collaborating
Online

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 3.2. Collaborating
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As I already mentioned, we have a Moodle platform hosted on the school website and this facilitates collaborative work with the students, avoiding the dispersion by other online applications. I explore all the collaboration potentialities in Moodle, but that does not mean I do not want to use other apps. It's just that sometimes, it is also important to go walking slowly, in order to reach where you want. Last year, I worked with a class in a close Facebook group. Some students were extremely active and motivated some others. Many who have not actively participated said that, even though, they learned a lot from the interaction of their peers.

As a teacher, I never tried any of Google Apps for Education, for instance, in collaborative tasks. But as part of Communities of Practice, I'd tried some ("Groups", "Docs", "Sheets"...) I think it's time for me to go on with this adventure with my students.

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3.1. Writing for the Web

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3.1. Writing for the Web

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For online communication with my students I usually work with Moodle platform. It’s easier for them to access through the school website. I also use it for collaborative tasks (wiki and forum) or for individual assessment tasks. From the feedback I get, they say they learn better when working on Moodle. Sometimes students' work are published in the school library blog. And they not only like it but are also more careful to write, as they became more awareness of the importance of the publication and respect for copyright (texts, images, videos ...). Offline, I use, and challenge students to do it too, different tools, depending on thepurpose of the lesson / activity.

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3. How to create digital resources/content?
				
				
			
		

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I wish I knew something about coding, HTML and games design.
And a little more advanced knowledge about video production also would make me feel much more comfortable.

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 2.2.d. Content and
Copyright - digital plagiarism

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 2.2.d. Content and
Copyright - digital plagiarism

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I think it's very important to talk to students about plagiarism and copyright. For them, it is very easy to copy and paste what they find on the Web to do the work that teacher asks. But the teacher should call their attention to the fact that what is online have been created by someone and it's fair that should be referred as the author.

Similarly, it is also important to explain to students the importance of creating content which can be registered under a Creative Commons license. This could be a way to motivate them to stop being just consumers and begin to being creators-authors, who certainly will not like to see their work plagiarized.

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 2.2.c. Content and
Copyright - understanding copyright

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 2.2.c. Content and
Copyright - understanding copyright

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Copyright and Creative Commons is a very important issue to teach. The school library in the school
where I teach has been doing a great work in this area with teachers and students too.
This blog http://literaciascantanhede.blogspot.pt/?view=classic  has a lot of content and tutorials to help
students to respect copyright.
I think this issue concerns to “Being an online digital citizen”. [Click this link. This is an interactive tool]

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2.2.a. Content and
Copyright - reliability of digital content

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2.2.a. Content and
Copyright - reliability of digital content

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Many aspects have already been highlighted which show that this site is not reliable. And as it was said too, being critical and think about where the information came from is crucial. That’s why it is so important to understand what the URL may let us know about a site.
I found this article very interesting and useful.This could be used together with the example of the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus site as a kind of critical thinking exercise to teach students to analyze the reliability of a site.

Good Tools for Teaching Students How to Evaluate Web Content Credibility

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I already knew Google Alerts, but I’ve never used it. It´s a great tool, indeed. I’ll try it as soon as possible. Thanks for the tips.

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Well.. this is the earliest website I can find from the University of Aveiro, where I graduate in 1986...

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2.1. Searching the internet - a. + b. + c. 

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2.1. Searching the internet - a. + b. + c. 

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a - My favorite search engine is Google, for it is very versatile, though I know some others. Thanks for sharing other search engines I did not know, like InstaGrok. It seems very interesting.
b - I usually research using key words in English. Depending on what I’m looking for, I use Boolean Search Operators or Advanced Search.

And I try that my students do not search using "big questions"...

c - I already knew some of these tips. Thanks a lot for all the others. They seem to be very interesting and useful to share with my students. Some tips:

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2. How to use digital resources/content?
				
				
			
		

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I’m a secondary school teacher. I teach Portuguese language and I may say I feel confortable to create digital content with various tools (in my PC or in my tablet), depending on the purpose of the resource. I really like to play with some animation tools to publish some of my students’ works and I challenge them to use those tools too. I’m also good at finding the information I need on the internet and I may say I’m an effective online communicator (in my mother tongue, of course). I had tutoring a few online courses at a university. But unfortunately I do not know anything about programming ... although I would like a lot to learn about it. My main problem with all this is… TIME!!!

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I totally agree with Ollie’s five principles.

Technology is inside the classroom, in students’ hands and is evolving at a scary speed, but that’s it what fascinates students.
As teachers, we must accept innovation and change, yes, but we must also avoid that technology dehumanize students-people who are in our classroom.
I liked this article. It is the way we need to start...

“We need to find a narrative that has at its core a very different valuable thing.”

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I never had an online interview. It seems to me that in secondary Portuguese schools recruitment this is not used.

I have a LinkedIn profile  and I use the Europass CV . Occasionally, I talk to my students about future jobs and the importance of digital skills.

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Just like Ollie, I also like George W. Crane's quote, since society will change inevitably and education will have to
follow the change, as we can see in this article.

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Well… I loved Jeff Brenman’s presentation and I picked up some interesting quotes:
1 – “…the-future-of-work mantra will be communication, communication, communication.” Absolutely! I consider this a very important skill for future work, because it demands inteligence, fluency, politeness and tact.
2 –“…the informal education is going to be more accessible than ever before”. Great!!!  Distance will not be a problem / obstacle anymore. So, more people will have access to education and professional development. The MOOC’s European Schoolnet Academy offers us are an amazing example of this. Therefore, “competition for jobs is no longer going to be limited to where you live”. To the communication skill I would add collaboration and creativity / inovation . They will also be key for success. “Because the future of work is you”, the future of work is everyone of us. And it's in our hands to help students to get it...

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What are digital skills?

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What are digital skills?

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[What digital skills are important]
I do agree with the Mashable website and it’s a pity that students continue leaving school without these competences. Digital skills / competences are becoming increasingly necessary as time moves on, and jobs and society require us to be very efficient in online communication. Additionally, I think that, in 2030, coding will be an extremely important skill, since it may be a kind of basic skill for the acquisition and development of all other ones.

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1. What are Digital Skills and why do we need them?
				
				
			
		

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I've been teaching Portuguese Language and Literature in a secondary school [for 30 years] in Cantanhede, a small town in the center of Portugal, near Coimbra.

Students are 16-18 aged.
Usually, I use ICT in teaching and learning process and I started experiencing using tablets in the classroom, with students, in the last year.

The school is equipped with a computer and a projector in each classroom and I may say the internet connection is good.
There is already quite a few students who have personal tablets or smartphones and use it at school when teachers allow its use for learning activities.
Escola Secundária Lima-de-Faria

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This is a T-shirt I got in the 80s. It says so much of what I feel as a teacher...

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Leonor is my name.
I'm Portuguese, from Cantanhede, a small town near Coimbra.
I like reading, travelling, going to the beach, looking at the sea, dreaming by the the sunset...
I love cats, flowers, cooking... and sleep!

I'm a fan of technology for teaching and learning ... and entertainment [just between you and me, I'm addicted to some games ;) ]

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“Some of the most crucial steps in mental growth are based not simply on acquiring new skills, but on acquiring new administrative ways to use what one already knows.”

Seymour Papert