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We have a lot of problems: old computers, old operating systems, old equipment, lack of qualifications of teachers in ICT. Developing knowledge and skills to use for teachers. Teachers must know how to use your own laptop to use.

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In my school we have a LIM in every classroom and a PC naturally.
Otherwise we have a serious connection problem like the video. Slow connection becouse the internet contract is only for few giga and often it isn't sufficient for a good navigation.

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We have a pretty good infrastructure but it's not used as much as it could be due to the lack of training of part of the staff

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Some of those problems are similar in my school. I can make some suggestions: Try to implement a solution like that one described by Roger at the beginning of this module; Use a free cloud based services such as G-Suite or Office 365; Motivate teachers by investing in their training; Learn with each other and in resources like this course.

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Resources are limited, funds are limited, and enthusiastic teachers that prepare, or adapt their methods, invest their time designing new activities are even more limited.
In my school, we have enough resources, but only 1/3 of staff is using ICT as  a common practice.
We have to change our minds!

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My school has the same problems as Gergana, we do not have qualified professors, the Internet is slow due to the distribution of Wifi. We only have one room where we share shifts so that they can access and carry out their activities.

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The situation in my school is very similar. The main drawback is the speed we have that prevents any type of online activity with some continuity, apart from a significant number of old equipment or obsolete operating systems provided by the administration.

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The problems in my school are  the same: structural problem, small classrooms and we need a computer technician to risolve hardware and software problems. In Italian school is not expected the presence of a technician in the first cycle school.

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We face a lot of problems too: old computers, old operating systems, old equipment, lack of ICT knowledge and skills. Some teachers have to bring their own laptops in the classroom.

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​I think that the ICT's challenges are similar. In my school we have a quite good equippment: 2 pc labs, 3 Cl@sse 2.0 and a projector in each classroom. I think I am lucky

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We ask parents for helping us . the bigger problem we face is to convince teachers that technology is the essential for children even now.

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Dear Collegues, It is very hard to work with limited resourses. Even if we find sponsors ще can not cover all needs. It is very important renewal of obsolete software and hardware, and training of teachers. Most of them, however, refuse to learn new things.

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Problems are similar in every country: slow connection, old equipment,  lack knowledge in the staff, low budgets, etc.
But I want to say something: a lot of times we discard computers that are perfectly usable... if we choose a light Linux distribution (like Xubuntu or Lubuntu), but most teachers are so addicted to Windows that it can be a trouble.
Remember free software can fix a lot of our issues.

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We face the same problems in our school, but I think that these problems could be saved by convincing the leaders of some local businesses that you cannot work properly and hopefully, they will agree to invest some money. Moreover, in our country there are some competitions on different projects realised by school and these competitions are organised usually by huge businesses or big supermarkets which offer the winners different sums of money that can be used for purchasing new equipments for school.

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It is obvious that you can find same problems in many  countries.
Better use of limited resources can diminish the problems you face. This presupposes ongoing training  on new systems and techniques.

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Well done to all those who work with limited resources, keep up the good work.

Advice:

Look for investment/sponsorship from local businesses?

Avail of free cloud based services such as G-Suite.

Invest in teacher training to make best use of what's available

learn from each other

BYOD as option could help with tight budgets

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All three of you are great and are doing everything in your power to achieve and successfully integrate technology into curriculum.
Keep up the work you're doing.

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Both videos show problems very similar to those we have in Spain.
Many times we have an economic problem that we can not solve it from the centers.

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All videos are very simalar to my school. And also all problems... :D

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To partly solve the problems of the schools (obsolete computers, not sufficiently powerful wifi, ...) it need a lot of financing that you may gather maybe with crowfounding activities

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Work of our school is similar to the Gergana Petrova.

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I teach in secondary school. We have 4 lab with 25/30 PC for students + 1 for teacher and any classroom have 1 PC for administrative use. I think that one solution for primary/ comprensive school is to make a network with secondary school where teacher with ICT competence are many and they can learn many things about admin ICT resource.

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I think you are a miracle people you are doing as much as you can to supply the environment so you can take advantage of technology with your students. I understand that my  conditions are really very good.

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Even in my school the main problem is the slowness of the connection provided by the municipality. The school is equipped with excellent equipment: all classes of primary school and secondary school have the LIM connected to the computer on the internet; all locations are wired, there are two computer labs, one already old, another modern equipped with 25 pc more than the teacher, upgraded to Windows 10. All teachers who request it can have a free tablet, android or windows, mainly used to update the electronic register. There are also many old computers, scattered around the school, which should be controlled and dismess

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Betül, Türkiye     In my opinion there should be more educators more administrators for schools. Nowadays my husband is attending a course by ministery of education. After completing it he will have an office in his school and he will be able to engaged in controlling smartboards and other devices. When there is a problem he will solve it. This is the key need for most schools to me.

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Betül, Türkiye     In my opinion there should be more educators more administrators for schools. Nowadays my husband is attending a course by ministery of education. After completing it he will have an office in his school and he will be able to engaged in controlling smartboards and other devices. When there is a problem he will solve it. This is the key need for most schools to me.

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From the video I see that the situation is almost the same all over the Europe: limited resources and so on. Fortunatelly teacher are very good in some situation to solve problem by themselves.

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After an earthquake in 2012 our primary and secondary schools were condemned and we spent two and three school years (respectively secondary and primary school) in the so-called containers. We lost our previous technological equipment because of the earthquake. Now, in the new school buildings, we have an IWB in each class, a good (not excellent) internet connection via LAN cable (no wifi) a few mobile laboratories (tabcabbies). In our secondary school we have since last year a computer lab, which we call "FabLab" . We have even got a 3D printer. All thanks to post-quake charity by companies, individuals, parents, fundraising....However, we now face some similar problems as in the 3 videos: lack of teacher training, maintenance cost, no technical staff inside the school.

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In the 3 video I've seen that there are different conditions but that is closest to my school and videos Tiziana.

Giving advice is easy, but when each of us needs to apply the advice received, without having a financial fund, everything becomes difficult.

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In my opinion the Italian program for innovative schools ( PNSD) should give more economical resources for implementing innovation at school: it is necessary to improve the ICT knowledge of the teachers and buy more devices for teachers, students and classrooms. We are managing it even if the process is very slow.

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In the 3 videos we can see a lot of incredible situations. I thought that we had problems, but in front of them are very little. Is very difficult to give advise without money to improve their techincal  and structural problems, and after we can think to improve the ICT knowledge of the teachers.

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Many challenges do we have to face when it is about equipment and technical problems for which we do not have economical funds to provide for or adequate training. I think I am not the only one trying to do the best to let things function at their best, like updating programs, mending cables, connecting devices. Furthermore, in Italy, after the PNSD, the Italian program for innovative schools, we have assumed the role of IT admins, which is intended not as a mean technician but as a pedagogical innovator. This is fine. The plan intended to give also a minus budget,1000 a year, to be used in order to implement innovation at school. This was unfortunately only a programmatic point.
The main fact remains the most of the job is done on a voluntary basis, during spare time when we are not teaching.

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Sadly, teachers are being overemployed... And, sometimes, parents also act as volunteers to do the work the Administration doesn´t want to do. In my school there is a few examples.
It´s fantastic to talk about the innovation in our schools, but when this is made without covering the real needs of every school, it´s only an unvaluated personal fight...

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The figure of ICT administrator in Italy goes to improve the use of technology.

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After watching these videos, I can echo the problems faced by Tiziana in Italy. We too have had similar problems. We bought a new interactive projector for one classroom this year and a subscription to a language programme to enhance the learning which is only available online. For the last week we cannot connect to the internet so the new technology is rendered useless. It is so frustrating for the teacher and the pupils who look forward to this new system of language learning each day only to be disappointed. We have the technology in place but we are let down by the  internet connection which is provided by the Department of Education.

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Useful video. It is good idea to involve other in our activities.

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I don't know if it makes me happy or sad to see that many others (also from comments have similar problems such as lack of financial resources, training and support. Together with the major red tape and bureaucracy problems of the Ministry, leave some teachers/groups that are willing to do the extra mile

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A good working network and ICT Tools a very important without these you will surely risk that people to stop working with ICT but the most important in my opinion is a good team STAFF & TEACHERS with a smart plan be able to motivate teachers to integrate ICT in their dialy pratice. Therefore I apreciated Riccardo's video involve other is fundamental.

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I watch the videos and schools are equipped with ICT infrastructure better than my country. But is seems to me that some common challenges we are facing all over the world in ICT in Education. Such as, Lack of building for ICT lab, maximum utilization of existing limited ICT resources, developing faster  troubleshooting mechanism. In my country government is trying to address all the challenges one by one. Besides this we are trying mobilize our community to involve them in school level improvement plan (SLIP). Objective is to ensure participation  of all level stakeholder for improvement of school performance.

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These three videos can explain clearly which are the main problems that the large part of ICT administrators have to solve every day: lack of financial resources, hard work to do as ICT administrator, the need of technical assistance to the school network, inadequate spaces to destinate to learning activities.

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In my school, we certainly can not complain about the equipment and the possibilities - they are great! The only problem might be that not all teachers are able to work with IT.

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I saw videos and I have to say that my school is more equipped, we have three Lab with 20/25 computers, iPad and Tablet for students, LIM in each classroom, laptop for teachers and so on. But we have a problem only few teachers use these technologies in their teaching. It's a pity. I'm trying to involve more teachers that I can to use TIC in their teaching

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Paola Italy                    After watching these videos I have realized we are in the same situation, I mean poor resources, no training for Teachers, missing an external technician who can support us, outdated computers and I can go on...

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Paola Italy                    After watching these videos I have realized we are in the same situation, I mean poor resources, no training for Teachers, missing an external technician who can support us, outdated computers and I can go on...

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In my school there are many problems (poor resources, no training for teachers, missing an external technician who support us) but I understand there are worst situations around the world...

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After seeing the videos I realized how high quality of IT is equipment in our school Of course, even in our school there are problems – outdated computers, staff who doesn’t want to educate IT etc.

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Many activities are voluntary on the part of teachers and technical personnel. It operates in Italy with the little that we have available.

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After watching these videos have realized we are very lucky in our school!!! We have 3 IT labs for 28 students each, and an IT lab with 21 iMac and a projector. All the classrooms are equipped with a Lim and its laptop. The hardware is quite new and in particular in one of the labs we are replacing the old laptops with new desktop PCs. We have free Wifi for students and teachers, though it is rather slow. We, however, need specialized technical support since we have school technicians but they are not skilled enough. In these years we have been supported economically by bank funds supporting schools and education in our town. My advice is applying for PON projects, crowdfunding, bank funding, cooperatives and using BYOD as we are doing now. Finally we have supported the staff with peer to peer training and workshops for teachers about digital innovation in teaching and learning and cooperative learning.

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I think it is very difficult developing an ICT strategy in schools with an important lack of material resources. My advice is using BYOD if possible and ask parents or the city council for help, or any local company that may be interested in collaborating whit the school.

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I could say that educational institutions tend to be reluctant to invest in good technology. Administratives tend to think that nothing will happen and does happen they try to find emergency solutions. It is the same problem in companies, ICT administrators also have to deal with skeptical people.

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In my school there are the same problems (limited resources, need specialized technical support, lack of training for teachers. There is a wifi line which often doesn't work when a lot of people are using it. Students sometimes cause problems to the computers and headmaster has to call an external technical

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I think it is interesting this type of initiatives with people from more countries. No matter where you work, the problems in this regard are all very similar.

I agree with other colleagues that the state should provide material to schools.

It is important the figure of the administrator in the schools. Teachers do not have to know everything.The only way to have an optimized secure network that works is that there is a qualified person who can handle it.

Another important issue that has also been discussed is teacher training. Teachers should have basic knowledge of software to work in the cloud and how to integrate in their classes

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New technologies are advancing so fast that every day is a challenge

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When we have the same problems of hardware in my school, we try to equip one classroom when we have money to do that. Many of the teachers have serious reserves to leave the paper and work with computers. Using the most ICT active teachers to introduce ICT in the school led us to make the director of the school look ICT in other way, and reserve money to informatize the school. I think when you have more and more teachers asking and demonstrate between colleagues that ICT facilitate is job, administration need to respond to this movement.

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I am very happy to participate in this course together with my good friend and eTwinning partner - Kondylo Glarou.
I am grateful that I know people like her. The theme of the course is very interesting for us and we have been discussed what future development opportunities stand as challenges for us. The quality of the resources that we share for use by students is very important for us.

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Actually it’s very difficult to develop a digital strategy in schools this lack of human and material resources. Probably, it’s easier to have access to more material resources than human resources. Last year I was in a presentation about BYOD, it was a school in UK which had not fundings for equipment and after discussing it with families they finished using the students’ smartphones. In some places people are recovering old computers replacing Windows OS with some Linux distribution or Chromium.

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problems seem to be the same all over the world. many teachers with non it background often have a hard time using ict in their lessons.
budget is also a regular problem. old hardware.
however, all of them try to do their best.

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In my school it is implementing the digital, in part, only now. We do not have many facilities and even use the BYOD. Only this year something is changing.

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I’m so happy and proud to see my good friend Gergana Petrova,  my 2nd consecutive year etwinning partner, on the second video. Well done Gery!

In my school we deal all kind of problems Tiziana Buonocore mentions.

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What is it that these heroic teachers are not doing, given the situation?
I agree with Slavica here: they are already doing their best. They do not lack awareness, but funds.
Tim Gayton from Sweden is also giving good advice, but you need to have some technical skill to do what he suggests, I reckon.
Another possibility is to create a local offline network, classroom wide, thanks to the use of Raspberry PI, which is very cheap. You need to have some technical skills, again.

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This scheme of work has been designed as an introduction to networking on the Raspberry Pi. Students will set up and use various networks, and will be introduced to basic networking through practical activities. This scheme of work is specifically targeted towards KS3 and KS4 Computing, although the first two lessons could be used at KS2.

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My experience through the years of IT development is that the existing resources are most often grossly underexploited - and often reach retirement with only a fraction of their capabilities being used.
I used the  year first year at my present school making the ageing resources that everyone complained about do the maximum they could. This created a much more favourable environment for the budget decision-makers to favour positive it development.
An old iPad2 goes a long way even today!
In Sweden with underfunded schools but most citizens with ok economy, I think BYOD is a BIG way to go. In our school, even most of the poorer students have smartphones. The absolute majority have iPhones, and change models definitely faster than a school can change models.

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I appreciate all the  stories shared in the three videos. Each teacher  tries to achieve and successfully integrate technology into curriculum, trying to overcome the obstacles.
It hard to advise you because it is evident that you are doing your best to innovate the classroom, maybe you could create ICT development plan together with all the staff, parents, local community and set priorities for achieving.

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Every school is different and faces different challenges. It is so important for the government of the country to have investment in education as a top priority.

All three schools could prioritise putting in place the best infrastructure possible, even with limited funds (some good ideas put forward by other participants already) Use open source software where possible to cut down on costs and free up funds for other things like hardware. You could also approach corporate agencies who are upgrading and ask them to donate their desktops or laptops to you - wipe them down and install open source operating system on them.

Think about using cloud services like Google Apps for education

Then think about prioritising training for staff - start small on small things - hopefully get some momentum and motivation to use ICT in the classroom.

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There are many challenges for ICT administrator (indeed) when there is a shortage of resources (money, tech devices provided, time etc.).

On the other hand it may be hard for an IT administrator to cope with such a situation, but also it may be a chance to gain more experience and (if possible) to make things work...in a magical way. Of course, when resources are limited there are not many possibilities for a teacher with a lot of demands to make him/her happy, but within a climate of cooperation and mutual understanding many good things can happen.
Alexandros' recommandations are very useful here. Jus to add that sometime times there are big companies like Banks, IT or Mobile telephoney companies etc that they renew their IT infustructure. If you ask maybe they are able to give you some good old PCs or used ICT devices.
Thanks for the videos by Gergana, Riccardo and Tiziana.

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Congratulations to the three schools to make daily possible the impossible.
Unfortunately they are   very well known situations for me.
In our case using a light version of Linux (Lubuntu 14.04) has been a big help to optimize old pc's, the problem will be when we have to renew the equipment, we don't have funds to do that, we "overexploit" the PC's enlarging RAM, hard DISK,etc...
I agree with José María, education is a strategic sector for a country and it should have at least the same technical resources as they provide to other sectors like Health or other Public Departments, and not depending on the good will of teachers bringing their laptops in class.

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Unfortunately it is very difficult for ICT administrators in many countries (Greece included) because of the extremely limited resources.
Some advice from my school:
(1) If there is a really small budget for new pcs buy refurbished (with garranty) instead of new, in order to buy as many pcs possible.
(2) Use Linux with a very lightweight Desktop Environment for old pcs (XFCE, LXDE for example).
(3) Build a lab out of legacy pcs using thin client technology
(4) Use a proxy server (like squid) to limit the bandwidth need if you have slow internet connection)
(5) Create an in school web server where you can host videos (instead of watching them online), files, pictures etc.

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Each school is a different world :(
On the other hand, I agree with Victoria (Spain) that our politicians should be very serious about providing teachers with sufficient material and training.
Honestly, we all do what we can :(

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by watching the three videos and reading the several entries in this padlet I reflected upon how lucky we are in my school! I teach in an upper secondary school in Emilia Romagna in Italy. We have 2 language labs with 28  computer each . We also have 2 ITlabs with 26 computer each. In many classrooms we have a whiteboard or a beamer  which can  be connected to our pcs or to a pc of the school.  we also use BYOD , but , as I said previously , students must use their private internet connection while using their own devices. Normally we have a good internet connection  even if sometimes there are some problems in some classrooms .  We have also a specialized technician who takes care of all the technical aspects. With the team for innovation we try to plan for the future and to plan also specific teacher training.  For my eTwinning projects I work with my students using  all the devices we can have to disposal at school. Of course there are some aspect which could be implemented for example through the use of 2 more trolleys with tablets and computers, as we have about 1600 students and the need of  well functioning devices  is high
However I think we must invest on more training for teachers

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In the first place I think the government should invest in new technologies and training of teachers.
On the other hand, we can contribute to improving it by participating in projects related to ICT. In my case it has been how we got digital boards, tablets and training for teachers.
Finally, the Ministry of Education of my community commitment to new technologies and we have been endowed with many resources ICT and training for teachers .

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The situation in my school is similar to the third video, but we have less than them. In Secondary school we have only 5 PC computers and 4 laptops with obsolete systems and wifi is really slow (we actually have 2 Mbps, even if the contract is 7 Mbps).
​We use 2 Projectors and 2 IWBs for 10 classes.
​We won a project two years ago so we created a Class 2.0 with an E-board and 20 tablets, but wifi is slow so it's difficult to connect them.
​Fortunately we won an European project so with new funds we are waiting for the installation of 4 Interactive Monitors.
​There are always problems and I have to solve technical issues everyday, we have not got a specialized technician, so every teacher who has a technical problem comes to me and ask for help.
​We need new infrastructure, we need faster wifi, we need specialized technical support and we need to learn how to use new technologies, but we always do our best to work with the technologies we have.

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The situation in my school is very similar to video 1 and video 3 too: lack of devices ( we need a laptop for each classroom, or a tablet too, that can be a good replacement) and no funds to buy them, poor network connection (7 MBps)

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The situation reminds me of a recessionary mantra that goes like this..."Do more with less" which is certainly not a case study in good practice.

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The situation in my school is very similar to the one described in the third video... we've got the same problems (limited resources, lack of updated softwares and lack of training for teachers who aren't able to use computers, the presence of just one wifi line which often collapses when a lot of people are using it, students who sometimes cause problems to the computers,...)

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In my opinion, the main problem is not 'to IWB or not to IWB' but how and why to use it. In my school (a scientific secondary school) we have just a beamer and a laptop connected to the internet in each classroom (this only since this year). But not all teachers use these tools together with the classical ones and many of them are still printing everything and refusing any modification of their habitual teaching style.

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Try to identify the requirements by department as different subjects will use different method of ICT use , in particular in assessment.
If you can identify teachers in yur school who have successfully used ICT in teaching and learning and then try to create a collaborative system where resources can be shared.

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The problems are the problems that everyone has in Italy. The structural problem is not easy to solve and many problems regards money that many schools don't have. Some problems can be solved, like the training of teachers. It needs strong motivation and time.

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I know this situation very well :-(

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The problems are illustrated in the three videos are common to those of many italian schools. We can recommend to colleagues Gergana, Richard and Tiziana to continue studying. Unfortunately the money is not a lot, but teachers know how to be the same exceptionals. So we continue to prepare ourselves hoping for better times also from the financial point of view. We also try to obtain the presence of people specialize in school's ICT administration and people in charge of advice to teachers on the pedagogical use of different devices.

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To do what is possible with that we have. Yes, we can :-)

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I think that each of us should do our best with any available resources.

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Every job has its challenges, and working in IT is certainly no exception