1. Reflect on your current practices and why you might want to change them

2. Develop an understanding of the evolution of classroom organisation over time

3. Consider the role of 21st Century Skills and their role in the classroom

4. Evaluate your current classroom organisation and consider if and how you would like to change it

 

1. Understand the concept of future classroom scenarios

2. Explore the Future Classroom Toolkit that provides ideas and tools for developing a future classroom scenarios

3. Consider why it is important to involve stakeholders and which stakeholders you would want involve for your process of innovation

4. Discuss a variety of trends and challenges that are impacting on our work as educators

1. Understand a variety of ways how technology can be used in schools

2. Evaluate the level of pedagogically effective use of technology in your classroom or school

3. Develop and share ideas of effective and innovative use of technology in the classroom and school

4. Discuss lesson examples that integrate technology

1. Explore how the general vision of a scenario can be broken up into more concrete and short learning activities that teachers can use to achieve the scenario.

2. Develop an understanding how the 21st Century Learning Design Rubrics can help to create rigorous learning activities for 21st Century Skills.

3. Identify suitable learning activities for the Flipped Classroom scenario.

1. Understand the concept of iTEC Learning Stories and how these relate to the iTEC Learning Activities and Future Classroom Scenarios

2. Explore examples of iTEC Learning Stories

3. Draft your own Learning Story using the Learning Designer tool

Here is a list of criteria you should consider when creating your Learning Story. You will also use this list to provide feedback to your peers in the 2nd task of the final assessment.

- The Learning Story develops 21st Century Skills: for example, activities develop collaborative skills in addition to acquisition of knowledge

- The Learning Story uses technology to develop 21st Century Skills: for example, technology is used as a tool to produce something (a film, animation, presentation, etc.) or is used for students to collaborate more easily inside and outside of the classroom

- The Learning Story is well aligned with its learning outcomes: activities and assessment clearly link with the defined learning outcomes and allow the teacher to determine by the end of the Story if the objectives have been achieved

- The Learning Story is balanced: there is a good mix of activities with at least four different Learning Activities used (TLAs in the Learning Designer) and none of the Activities taking up more than 35% of the time (see the pie chart for this)