Good luck everybody...

I am a member of a direction un charge of national ICT for Education policy in Morocco, since 2007. Now, we are wondering if Tablets are good opportunity for our school's actual context. We need to measure all aspects of integrating Tablets in classrooms. This pilot's output is essentially meaning data for our decision makers. I will be sharing more info.
See you soon!

- Personalized learning ;

- Apps for content creation (example of Evernote as a copybook) ;

- Flexible teaching ;

- Visualization ;

- Support for students creativity ;

- Inclusive teaching ;

- Collaboration.

- we can play games ;

- we can do search ;

- we can change the desktop ;

- we can learn new languages (foreign ones) ;

- we can acquire noew skills ;

- we can play...but also study!

... and THANKS to Wifi : we are always connected and have access to "fresh" news!

I think that we have 2 challenges here, in Morocco :
- Wireless connectivity for all schools (some are covered and some are not yet) ;
- Professional Developpement that need more engagement form both teachers and decision makers.

There will be of course some excitement at the begining and we need to take advantage of that : that is surely motivation for pupils. The challenge will be, in my opinion, focusing on the Tablet as a learning tool, instead of a regular everyday leisure tool! There will be some work to do (at teachers level) to define this new tool "image" inside classroom.

As I told you, when I was introducing myself here and on Facebook Group, I am not teaching! I am here to learn all interesting thing about bringing Tablets inside classroom. I am a member of a direction un charge of national ICT for Education policy in Morocco, since 2007. Now, we are wondering if Tablets are good opportunity for our school's actual context. We need to measure all aspects of integrating Tablets in classrooms. This pilot's output is essentially meaning data for our decision makers. I will be sharing more info.

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

I think, according to our reality, buget for equiping every school on a 1:1 basis and wifi connectivity would be main challenges to face.

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

Teachers training about change driving in new pedagogical approaches would be a main challenge inside a classroom.

This is a drawing I made for 2013 Back To Schools!

http://creative.eun.org/resources/-/blogs/l-impact-de-l-ipad-sur-l-apprentissage-des-eleves?_33_redirect=%2Fresources

http://iejee.com/files/1/articles/article_5511d308a5981/IEJEE_5511d308a5981_last_article_5516c5b5d2533.pdf

http://creative.eun.org/observation

I learned that many peers have chosen other tools for their diaries : Dipity, Glogster (for kids with special needs...) and even Google Docs!

Well, the tool doesn't really matter, the diary does...

The main whole-school challenge which was the most highlighted by most of this course participants is : convincing parents and teachers.

Katja talked also abour peer support especially in terms of worries about level in English. I really enjoy being here because it helps me to practice my English! As an Arabic mother tongue language speaker and a foreign French language speaker also, I think I do good

1. Identify at least one idea for content you could produce together with your students that has a wider purpose and meaning than just the classroom activity

2. Create some content with a tablet (can be your personal tablet) to useas an example when doing a content creation project in your class

We need then to explain crearly what "Content Creation" is.

I think that everybody now, due to proliferation of personal devices (especially smartphones and Tablets), is a content creator. A simple status published on a social network is actually a piece of content. We have to asist our pupils to be also good content creators inside classrooms. How?

We need a learning scenario! And according to my actual context (in my country), we need courageous scenarios (Back to convincing teachers and parents!!!)

For me, an interesting pedagogical scenario would definitely be that one which help pupils discover their real own potential, in terms of skills.

Explore : collect data

Map : structure ideas and concepts

Make : develop content, do activities

Ask (That was not explained in the video, but we can guess!

Re-make : replan upon feedbacks

Show : publish and present

Copyright on pictures is an issue sometimes, so here is a proposal for an activity in classroom, for all the year!

Building an authentic databank for photosand videos as well taken by pupils using their own devices (smartphones, tablets, cameras, ...). Most of picture would be for daily objects

science and physics phenomenons, animals and insects, buildings, etc. No people are taken in photos (to avoid image copyright and personal integrity issues). The teacher with the pupils

would choose an online media sharing service and adopt it, then share it with other schools.

Back to course again... I am very affected and glad to see my cartoon shared and to be mentionned in Katja's video! Really... I will share more drawing related to use of ICT in classroom in general, and for tablets and IWBs in particular. Stay Tuned.

Now I am ready for module 3

Groups are indeed the good opportunity to teach to our pupils collaborative skills. I agree with the idea stating that a teacher would better start groups from pairs.

To compose groups, I think that teacher can (waiting to define pupils profiles and learning styles) compose random pairs (using a name picker for example, it's always funny to do that with pupils inside classroom!).

The second video (with kids) is very important in terms of pupils feedback :

- we can work together and decide what to do ;

- we can make mindmaps ;

- we can show ideas to others ;

- we can discuss in group ;

... and we can plan to work everywhere in schools : tablets are very mobile!

Again, I need to say that I'm not teaching right now and that we are just attempting to test tablets in classroom in a pilot project frame.

Anyway, that doesn't stop me from thinking about the answer for this videos questions! Ok...

As we can see on the video, groups of 4 students are moving around with on tablet each time. This king of nomadism made by a kind of data quest through city, outside school is very efective, I guess. 

Putting pupils right inside their real environment and linkind learning outcomes with their real concerns is the good way to keep them focused. I would do the same : pupils don't need to consider school as a standalone space different from its real and actual environment.

Thanks for this video.

I think there is no need to demonstrate why twinning schools is a good scenario (especially e-Twinning actually!). Two main things would be real motivators for a school to look for twinning with another one :

- Curiosity to know other people from other countries and discover what they do for learning ;

- Competitivity to show that our culture and history and others aspects matter for us as pupils.

That's it...

Back to assessment and collaboration, I thing peer assessment is the good approach to adopt since the main concern is collaborating. I prefer formative tasks starting from small groups projects (intermediate output) to collective project for all students (final class output). I used to have this kind of assessment when I was learning for my Master degree on a collaborative platform : we were small groups (3 or 4 people) and worked on some projects and at the end the whole Master group worked on one final project : that was very interesting.

http://bdtice.blogspot.com

Google Apps (in general)

Padlet (recently, thanks to this course!)

Exploring the module!

Liked Astrid's online trombinoscope! I will add my photo later (looking for a very special one to share!)

So, I decided to ask a maths teacher to help me with a lesson plan. She uses SMART Notebook Software in her school, and she showed me how she works with her students.

She used an approach that she already seen from a british teacher experience. So credits go to that bright guy that I don't know! THANKS!

Using the Learning Designer, I tried to imagine the same scenario using tablets. Let's see what do you think of that!!!

Lesson link : http://v.gd/2ftCf0

If you are interested in other work, you can check my Google Blog!

http://bdtice.blogspot.com

I started as a French Foreign Language teacher in a middle school in Morocco, in 1995. I was 19 years old and very brand new to a great profession! I teached in rural areas where there was no GSM network, no electricity... (in fact, a lot of things were not there...but I was! hhhh)

At 2002, I stopped my teacher career and shifted to another career : vocational conselling for students. I worked for 2 years providing information to students about their future options. That was a first occasion for me to set up a website for students (I stopped update on 2006 :-( ...). At 2003, I had my French Litterature Licence degree from university.

At the end of 2006, I joined the ministry of education main offices in the capital, exactly as a member of Direction du programme GENIE (National ICT for education strategy). I was in charge of many areas, from equipment to digital content and teachers training. Meanwhile, I had my Master Degree from Strasbourg's University in France. That was a great exciting e-learning experience!

By december 2010, I stopped working for MoE (I was on a leave of absence, for 3 years, cause I needed to change and to learn new things). I was enrolled in september 2011 by SMART Technologies (Canada) as an Education Consultant in Morocco and Francophone Africa. That was a really valuable experience where I learned a lot, I met great people and travelled in some european and african countries.

From January 2014, I was back to my former position in MoE, where I am working actually on many new experimentations in education field (IWB, Serious Gaming and of course... Tablets!)

I decided to participate in tihs course to learn about Use Of Tablets in Classroom, as I am in charge of a pilot project here, in Morocco!

To say the truth : I learned a lot from this course and I will use all of this knowledge in my work!

Cheers from Morocco!