https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe en-us 2018-05-31 10:02:22 UTC 2018-05-31 10:12:53 UTC hello@padlet.com benedetta_dandrea https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264741816 1- What are the characteristics of the innovative teaching?
2- What are the challenges to teach differently?

1- The video presented a highly technological school reality in Singapore that left me speechless. This is a secondary school where technology is an integral part of teaching. We have seen several digital applications that have opened up a world unknown to us. In these classrooms they do not use interactive whiteboards just to project images or videos, they do not use computers as typewriters or encyclopedias, but as a means to reach those skills that teachers set themselves as a goal. Using computers activate 3D applications with which students can interact, we have seen for example how to simulate a visit to a museum. Each child had an avatar that made him walk in the rooms of the museum and with whom he could interact with other companions. The desks were arranged to form small circles, each boy had his own station and his personal computer (of last generation and not antiquated as found in many Italian schools), tablets and cell phones. On the mobile phones I would like to expand the subject. Reading also one of the articles that we have seen later in group on the oecd site what has immediately jumped to the eye is that in Europe they are all projected towards the future. The future is imbued with technology and if we continue to shield ourselves from it in Italy to avoid being overwhelmed by it, or for fear, we only lag behind many other states.
The European Parliament has published a report on "Innovative schools, teachers and learning in the digital age". The report analyzes new ways of social-digital participation and argues that schools must adapt to new technologies. Evaluate new knowledge creation practices, ask how to implement new technologies in schools and evaluate what the pedagogical creations required of teachers are.

2- The digital revolution is transforming our work, our organizations and our routines. It is transforming the way children and young people play, access information, communicate with each other and learn. But, so far, this revolution has not transformed most of the schools or most of the teaching and learning processes in the classrooms.
We could carry a young Italian today in a class of a few decades ago, and rather than feel lost, that young man would feel immersed in the school methodologies he knows. Many of the routines, curriculum contents and perhaps even lesson plans are often the same.
A question that educators should be asked is when and how education will adapt to today's technological innovations. We also talk about technology as if there were only one and were of a single type, but not all technologies are the same. Although it may be convenient to talk about technology in monolithic terms, such generality masks our ignorance in the matter. Several technological initiatives could be targeted at different types of changes in the school. For example, some technologies could be aimed at changing education by providing online alternatives to traditional brick and mortar schools. Others may maintain traditional classrooms, but focus on improving teaching and learning by putting more technology into the hands of students. Still others may focus on the student-teacher relationship, providing teachers with information on the academic and non-academic needs of individual students.
These technologies emerged in the video viewed today.

Each group, looking at the materials found on the Unesco, Oecd and Educe sites, had to answer the two questions. Later we shared the answers in the big group, comparing the various answers and finally writing a single answer that included all our proposals.

It was an initially tiring job. Surfing through these sites was complicated for me because the texts were all in English. After some time I managed to get myself into context and the knowledge of English that I had allowed me to understand the contents viewed.
Thinking about this great project, which includes the Mooc and the modules, I think it's a great opportunity that has been provided to us.
We have the opportunity to analyze how to improve the quality of teachers and teaching in order to optimize student learning. I am sure it will be a significant experience that we will take with us as a cultural baggage in the schools where we are going to teach.]]> 2018-05-31 10:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264741816 benedetta_dandrea https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264742001 What is DIGCOMP? The DIGCOMP model is a common European reference framework for digital skills.
It is a point of reference for the initiatives of member states aimed at developing, improving and supporting the development of citizens' digital skills.
The model identifies and describes digital skills in terms of knowledge, skills and attitudes.
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have evolved extremely rapidly over the last 20 years and the spread of their use is causing a series of changes in our daily lives: through the use of technology, we do things in a different way, and we do things that we would not have done before. Computers, internet, tablets and smartphones are increasingly available to everyone, although not all of them possess the skills necessary for their use. Digital competence is increasingly central to active and conscious citizenship. DIGCOMP provides a dynamic definition of digital competence that does not look to the use of specific tools, but to the needs that every citizen of the information and communication society is a carrier: need to be informed, need to interact, need to express themselves, need protection, need to manage problematic situations related to technological tools and digital environments.

Today's meeting was very useful for me, it showed me how it is possible to make a school environment suitable for a teaching that also includes technological tools. Being part of this path helps us not to be afraid of change. Many teachers refuse innovation preferring to stay in a comfort zone because it is easier to navigate in known waters instead of going to the open sea. Having the opportunity to take note of the modern settings, the virtual learnign environment necessary for innovative educational actions, cloud computing solutions gives us many ideas for reflection and impels us to become teachers of the future.]]> 2018-05-31 10:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264742001 benedetta_dandrea https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264742210 Technology e social media learning:
In schools technology is often not managed and thought well, the instrument is seen as an end and not as a means. Classrooms are often equipped with computers and Lim but then the teachers, not knowing how to use them, never use them. It is easier to take refuge in the past than to jump into a future that is still unknown to us. Often many innovative practices are not propagated in classrooms because it is easier to do a classic lecture, where there is no risk of interaction with the student who can not deny the teacher, rather than take refresher courses, open to the new technologies and put themselves to the test.
- The child, faced with such a vast network of information as the Internet, is only in learning. It is easy to get lost in the complexity of the network and get distracted by the task required.
- remote interaction, ie through technological tools, is poorer and less rich than the one in attendance. In this last come into play many variables such as non-verbal and physical language that allow you to enrich the interaction between student-teacher.
- The relational aspect is an important aspect in the learning-teaching process and this can be lost in the use of technologies that are revealed to be impersonal and detached, not taking into account the emotional component or the personal background.
- The boy could use these tools, like the webcam, inappropriately, thus becoming not tools for learning, but opportunities for distraction. It is important to let children know the pros and cons of having such a powerful technology in their hands. Internet and the network can become a hazard if they are handled incorrectly.
- Given that the student chooses what to learn with free access to the network, the teacher's role may fail if the methodology is not managed well, which could completely delegate teaching to the instrument.
- The use of only technology in the classroom could favor the loss of appearance the manual and manipulative aspect of the students. It is important to foster occasions where their manual skills are called into question and one might think that the advent of technology in the classroom will take away these activities.]]> 2018-05-31 10:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264742210 benedetta_dandrea https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264742350 We started this day with personal reflections on the use of social networks in our daily lives. Which online environment do we know and which, in our opinion, can be used for teacher training? Twitter, being by its nature more immediate, can be used to share real-time points of view, opinions and opinions, for example, in present-day conferences or pages created specifically for certain topics.
There is also the possibility to access the Mooc, Massive Open Online Courses, which are courses designed for distance learning that involves a large number of users.
Participants in the courses, coming from different geographical areas, only access the contents via the web; since the courses are open, access does not require the payment of a registration fee, and allows to use the materials they distribute.

After watching the video on the PLN we divided into groups and we reflected on what we saw.

With my group we shared these reflections:
PLN (Personal learning network):
It is a network for informal learning that consists of the group of people with whom an individual interacts in a learning environment. A person, through this digital platform, gets in touch with other people with a specific purpose: to discuss, share and reflect on a specific professional focus. Before taking part in the lessons of Education Technologies and the MOOC, we did not know all the possibilities that these specific digital environments represent for a future teacher. PLN, like E-Twinning, is a professional community, which is a learning community. We know that the educational action always refers to a moment of reflection, these platforms enrich this important moment with new meanings and constitute themselves as virtual places of research, sharing of intellectual and practical resources. Moreover, through these moments of exchange, people belonging to different contexts but of the same professional sphere, can question their knowledge and their work, in a metacognitive and co-construction of new knowledge. The experience of MOOC for us was a challenge, because through activities shared with other members, we had to not only question our cultural background, but also our experiences during the training hours. Through continuous confrontation we have come into contact with new resources and tools (such as Canva, Teechmeet, IRIS Connect, Padlet, Learning Diary ...) and with new realities and points of view that have allowed us to grow, to open ourselves to new horizons and opportunities.]]> 2018-05-31 10:08:37 UTC https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264742350 benedetta_dandrea https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264742469 The film told how education was years ago compared to what it is now and how the use of new technologies have given a burst of novelty to teaching.
The interlocutor said, however, that the school did not change even if the technology went ahead.
There are courses implemented in high schools where a new way of education has been integrated: online courses, discussion forums, sharing of the resources created ..
The positive part of these courses is intuitive access to education; the kids learn more efficiently, they can watch videos, listen to audio, see pictures, compare themselves with other kids, receive immediate feedback, understand in real time where they were wrong. The new technologies allow you to interact with the tools used, for example, kids can stop the videos when they want to comment or take notes, so they can customize their learning.]]> 2018-05-31 10:09:21 UTC https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264742469 benedetta_dandrea https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264742560 The Iris Connect platform is used by many teachers all over the world. It is a place where everyone can make observations on the various educational models and on many learning theories.
Teachers can recover while they lecture and share the video on this platform. This gives the other users registered to that specific group to be able to observe, reflect and give opinions on the methods put in place. The interested teacher can reflect on his / her own educational method and analyze the practices used at school and thus be able to improve.

You can get feedback from users, give and receive their contribution in this particular online community.
You can see teaching techniques at work and the strategies used, Irish connect is a safe space where you can discover the strengths of each teaching method.]]> 2018-05-31 10:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264742560 benedetta_dandrea https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264742765 What is dialogic pedagogy?
Adam Lefstein, author of Better than Best Practice, explains the concept of dialogic pedagogy. His research and teaching focus on the intersection of pedagogy, classroom interaction and teacher development.
Dialogue mode is designed to stimulate students to talk, share and reflect on the concepts faced in the classroom, to receive feedback, to promote constructive interaction between the students and the teacher.
There are rules for which this methodology can be implemented:
the teacher must be able to create a mutual participation, the students must have the opportunity to be engaged and involved, have a support, give a voice to the thought of each one.
For him, dialogue is the best methodological choice that a teacher can implement in the classroom.

In this section, stimulus questions emerge:
Why is dialogue important?
Developing the quality of speech in the classroom is essential to improve the educational evaluation of the students. Instead of identifying learning as an acquisition process based on the fact that the teacher transmits their knowledge, learning is now more commonly conceptualized as an action line in which students actively build their own understanding and skills.
Based on the work of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, an enormous amount of research emphasizes the importance of language in all cognitive developments. Teachers must therefore have an awareness of the meaning of the social element of learning, which is made effective through interaction and discussion.

Does this really have an impact?
There are also positive associations between student learning and responses in group dialogue; and the expression of conflicting points of view and of work towards an agreement through discourse is associated with conceptual development]]> 2018-05-31 10:11:07 UTC https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264742765 benedetta_dandrea https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264742907 Futur classroom lab, Portugal:
Today we saw a movie where a primary school teacher showed how to use tablet and lim in class. This teacher talked about Learning stories, which are a series of activities where children start writing what they think about the topic that will be presented, form the groups and decide what each group will have to create. They will then create videos, power point presentations or a dramatized representation. Many resources are shared among the students. Students will explore a set of resources to learn both in class and at home. After learning the content, start planning what to do. After completing a prototype of the work, each group will present it to the others as if they were experts and receive feedback. Finally, the work will continue by implementing the prototype and delivering the final work. It is the stage of the show.

During this whole process they will be evaluated by the teacher. Through the entire Learnign story process they will use different tools and Apps, some online others installed on tablets in the classroom. For example, a product created by the children of this Portuguese class is Kodu game, a game about animals that allows them to learn what they are eating. Another group of children has created a stop-motion video where children draw oviparous or viviparous animals.

Using this methodology children are challenged, they create a team where everyone has a specific role. Children like to work in a group because problems are dealt with and resolved together and this makes it easier to manage emotional conflict. It is also a way to make children work actively. Who become builders of their knowledge.

The second video viewed was: The Interactive Classroom;

In this video we discuss the importance for a teacher to record his lessons. Looking after themselves allows you to get on the side of the students, find out their point of view and any errors or criticism of the teacher. Being able to observe is a useful tool for a teacher because it allows us to evaluate his work objectively and impartially. It also allows you to have feedback on your work method and gives you the opportunity to reflect and share your experiences. Even sharing these videos on specific platforms is important as it allows you to receive feedback and comments from experts or other teachers who can judge the methodologies implemented and give constructive suggestions.]]> 2018-05-31 10:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264742907 benedetta_dandrea https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264743225 Etwinning is a sharing platform managed by a European association of member countries, was born with the idea of twining schools that can share educational paths of the English language.
It is a sharing environment in which teachers' work can be loaded and these jobs can then be shared. In schools it is beginning to be widely used, it is an example of the idea that goes through the whole module: that the training of teachers passes through the collaborative construction of knowledge, a professional community of people who share knowledge, share training paths.
It belongs to the paradigm of social constructivism and to the idea of the reflective professional
by viewing the videos that the teacher can upload you can then go to reflect
they are environments reserved for groups of people who are registered in that environment]]> 2018-05-31 10:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/benedetta_dandrea/h0tcnigls2xe/wish/264743225