I think that in my country we have two main problems to face: one is the old approach to teaching and learning, the other is the lack of investments. So we have two main challenges to face: first we have to try to change the present perception of "new" technologies, which many teachers still see as unknown enemies. Secondly, there are too many cuts in investments for education.

The whole of these problems represents a strong restriction to any growth opportunity.

Waiting for a better future, I think that teachers who have got tablets in their schools or the opportunity to buy them, should plan a gradual introduction of those instruments, starting from technical and linguistic subjects. By this way it could be more simple to introduce the use of tablets even if for the other subjects.

I think that the same could be done even in other contexts, like in adult education.

I don't have any experience with tablets in classroom but if I want to use them in my future (BLENDED) courses I have to consider that some participants use computers, others are also confident with tablets, while someone is not able at all to use technological devices.

The main challenges I have to face introducing tablet in future courses are the following:

- analyze opportunities and risks and plan carefully the learning project, considering that the particpants have few time to dedicate to courses at home

- design the course according to their skills, preferences and needs

- develop the learning environment according to their previous use of computers, tablets and smartphones (favourite apps, social networks...)

- make everyone understand the opportunities given by tablets, establish clear rules and explain how they can learn with a collaborative method using mobile devices

- provide the participants the necessary skills to use correctly the device

- periodically verify the results, difficulties and things to modify

Among the additional resources of Module 1 I found very useful this review:

http://www.tabletsforschools.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/T4S-Literature-Review-9-4-14.pdf

And I'm not a teacher like you, but since some years I deal with elearning and instructional design. I also teach to workers (communication and labour law). I'm very excited because this is my first MOOC! I think I have many thing to learn from this course, so thank you everybody for this opportunity! :-)

I heard about eTwinning before but due to the fact that I'm not a teacher I've not any experience on this platform.

I'd really like to work to an eTwinning project in the future because it gaves many opportunities to share ideas, compare yours with other projects and collaborate facing a great challenges such as different cultures and languages.

Besides I think that eTwinnings allows teachers and students to increase their ICT and linguistic skills. Students can learn to collaborate among them even if they live, study and belong to different countries and cultures. They can also have fun expressing their creativity.

However I think that an eTwinning project must base on clear rules, roles and challenges. And you also have the technological instruments to do that (computers, tablets and fast internet of course)

Working mainly with Moodle (also mobile) I don't have great problems because the platform makes available different tools for individual and group work assessment (assignments, forum, quizzes, wikis, workshops...) I can see who logged in, how many times and what he/her did, downloaded or watched. For example the Workshop module is a a peer assessment activity with many options. Students submit their work via an online text tool and attachments. There are two grades for a student: their own work and their peer assessments of other students' work.

I know many and many apps for collaborative learning:

Moodle, Edmodo, Dipity, Google Docs and educational apps, Padlet, Prezi, Dropbox, Voki, Cmap...

However the most important thing is how you decide to use them in your educational project...

As I teach to adults I follow some theories and principles, such as Malcom Knowles Andragogy. He

identified the six principles of adult learning outlined below:

• Adults are internally motivated and self-directed
• Adults bring life experiences and knowledge to learning experiences
• Adults are goal oriented
• Adults are relevancy oriented
• Adults are practical
• Adult learners like to be respected

As explained in the introduction it's very important to plan carefully the role of students, teachers and tablets (or computers). Flipping the classroom you have to activate students through the research of learning materials and discussion. But you have to pay attention to the time needed at home, it hasn't to be more of that needed for traditional homework. And you have to give effective support to everyone, considering their features and difficulties.

I believe that flipping the classroom requires the following main challenges:

- teachers have to believe strongly in the new model

- schools have to provide computers and tablets if possible

- students and parents have to be involved

- the lesson plan has to forecast every single step

- learning materials have to be adequate to students' level and needs

I'm satisfied for this first MOOC I took part, even if it's not always possible to look at everyone's work and posts in the forum because we are too many. Nevertheless it's been an important experience for many reasons and I really liked to experiment new approaches and to expand my mind. So thank you everybody and hope to see you on next courses.

I'm ready to start with a new one, called "Games in school" :-)

Bye bye!