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This course has been very interesting and I''m really happy to have been part of it.

I'm looking forward to the next course!!!!!

I think that what I have learnt will be very useful in the future when I will try to put

into practise my lessons with the use of tablets.

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Third module section 4 question

After participating in the webinar or reading the case study report (link above), what other strategies have you used to assess group work? What are the main challenges for you when it comes to assessing group work?

Massimo Pescatori

APR 27, 2015 10:29PM

Massimo/Italy

As it is described in the case study report, self assessment can be very useful, but I think that the best way to assess the contribution of each student is to let each student present a part of the final product chosen randomly just before the presentation begins. I think this is an efficient method to see if a student has contributed in a significant way to the project. The hardest thing to do in group work assessement is how to estimate the social skills of each student. It is very difficult to consider how a student has committed themselves to increasing the cohesiveness and the mutual support between the members of the group.

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Third module section 3 question

What do you think are the success factors for a school-to-school collaboration project?
Massimo Pescatori

APR 27, 2015 10:01PM

Massimo/Italy

In each project the most important success factor is the involvement of the students. So first of all the choice of the subject must be done in such a way to arouse interest in students. Secondly it should be an effective collaboration, not only sharing learning products created by each school on its own. Students should feel the superadditive effect of collaboration even if it is a long distance collaboration.

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Third module section 2 question

How do you keep your students focused and on track during collaborative projects? How do you ensure all students contribute to the task?

Massimo Pescatori

APR 27, 2015 9:27PM

Massimo/Italy

During collaborative projects I try to divide the projects in several modules. So at the end of each module I can check if every group is on track and in case of some delay I can immediately take action to let them catch up with the other groups. In order to ensure that everyone contributes to the task I set a different role for each one so that each student is in charge of a single aspect of the task.

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I am a secondary school teacher in an Italian Liceo Scientifico and this is my third EUN course. I've taken part in How to Teach Computing and Games in Schools and I've found them very useful.

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I am a secondary school teacher in an Italian Liceo Scientifico and this is my third EUN course. I've taken part in How to Teach Computing and Games in Schools and I've found them very useful.

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Second module section 3 posted content

Massimo Pescatori

APR 20, 2015 10:55PM

Massimo/Italy

The activity I propose is the creation (with a tablet with an Android Operating System such as a Samsung Galaxy) of an animated gif with Cinemagram for Android in order to show an iterative structure with a do while cycle. For example students could do an animated gif which illustrates with a flow chart an algorithm which sums three numbers given in input.

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Second module section 2 question

What kind of content can you produce with your class?

Massimo Pescatori

APR 20, 2015 9:57PM

Massimo/Italy

There are odds that next year in my school there will be a new organization that will let our students move from a classroom to another while teachers will always remain in the same classroom. In this scenario my students could build an app to oversee these repositionings.

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My students are from 14 to 18 years old. In my school we don't use tablets and I would like to have some suggestions about how to do it in a efficient way.

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My students are from 14 to 18 years old. In my school we don't use tablets and I would like to have some suggestions about how to do it in a efficient way.

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I hope I will find some inspiration at the end of the course. I feel that is important to capture students' attention ad partecipation with the use of tablets,

but I feel like I'm not able to plan a lesson with tablets that could reach these goals. In addition to this  in my school the internet connection is not reliable.

So if things don't change, it will be very difficult for me to use tablets in my school. But sooner or later things will change, as always happens when it comes to technology.

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First module section 5 question

App for Teaching, Edmodo

Massimo Pescatori

APR 15, 2015 10:47PM

Massimo/Italy

Until now, I've never used Edmodo in my classroom, but I've used it as a student in a training course I 've attended a year ago. I think it could be useful, but what makes me uncertain about its effectiveness is the difficult in managing the assessment phase.

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First module section 4 question

What classroom challenges do I already face or do I anticipate facing when using tablets?

Massimo Pescatori

APR 15, 2015 10:35PM

Massimo/Italy

I think that the most challenging part will be the preparation of the lessons, in particular of all the tasks I will submit to students. A lesson with tablets must be properly prepared otherwise tablets wouldbecome onlya source of distraction.

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First module section 3 question

What whole-school challenges do I already face or do I anticipate facing when using tablets?

Massimo Pescatori

APR 15, 2015 10:08PM

Massimo/Italy

The area that will be the most challenging at my school is wireless connectivity. I also think that it will not be easy to set a standard in applications and tools students use to collaborate and to communicate, since there would be many conficting requirements from the teachers.

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First module section 1 question

Why do you use or want to use tablets in your teaching?

Massimo Pescatori

APR 15, 2015 9:14PM

Massimo/Italy

I've never used tablets in school because I've never planned an activity which I considered suitable for the use of them. And currently it doesn't occur to me anything. That's why I've decided to take up this course. I hope that at the end of this lessons I will be able to design innovative educational activities which require the use of tablets.