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
https://youtu.be/t7Jme92cyGg

It's amazing comparison - school / factory!
 So if the factories were modernized, why didn’t the same thing happen with schools? After all, this is where it all begins! It seems to us that for 21st century students, 21st century classrooms are needed. But how do we do that? In our school, we do not even have functional internet. We agree that the physical space is important but we are also aware that it will not happen so soon. So it is important to start by changing the minds of those who are accustomed to the role of a sage on the stage and who refuse to apply new ways of working because they do not feel comfortable with ICT. When we change that, we are able to move forward.

We agree with Roger. The 4 C's are essential for the training of 21st century students for a changing society. With these skills we are giving them tools to become active and constructive citizens in an increasingly demanding age. It seems to us important that the student becomes the center of the learning process.

However, it is necessary to start with the teachers. It is in them and in political power that the obstacle to change lies. Maybe this is due to historical or social reasons, economics, educational policies and even some insecurity by the teachers.

As someone said, we are twentieth-century teachers, teaching in 19th-century classrooms to 21st-century students. Something is not right!

We have already had the opportunity to visit a future classroom lab and in fact it is a wonderful place to work at. However, even if we wanted, this would not be possible in our school. Our classrooms only have desks and chairs and there is a single computer in the teacher's desk. However, all classrooms have video projectors and some interactive whiteboards.  Also, we, the teachers, are always changing classrooms, there is not a culture of having a class in the same room the whole day. Sometimes we go into a classroom, change the way the chairs and desks are organized and, 100 minutes later, we have to leave it the way it was before. So, it is not practical at all. What can we do!?

In our classrooms we would keep the computer, the video projector, the boards (white and interactive) but we would change the layout of the chairs and desks in order to create specific areas. We believe that the three major areas should be Develop, Investigate and Create.

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

Video - https://youtu.be/UCr8M-A3LJU

Very, very interesting this way of evaluating and learning. These scenarios are everything that we don’t do. Impressive informal learning. How does it work? We would like to know more ...

They seem to be quite motivating for students. We consider as pros: it promotes a high level of student engaging, they are motivating, they put students at the center of learning using the new technologies they like and in the second video it promotes collaborative work.

Cons: It requires a different way of working from the teacher, it requires some knowledge of new technologies, the curricula are too extensive and the parents / guardians demand the fulfillment of the same and assessment this form of learning is not easy. 

2025 is in 8 years, which is little time for radical changes. All these changes that we would like to see already require high investments, on the one hand, and when we look at most of our colleagues, we do not see them as willing to change. Why is it laborious? By insecurity? ... However, we are willing to try and convert those around us. 
Video - https://youtu.be/VhIYDMFmXYM

• Official Selection, 2014 White House Student Film Festival
 • Best Special Effects, 2014 Rockland Youth Film Festival
 • Featured as part of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media's "Exo-Evolution" exhibit in Karlsruhe, Germany (October 30, 2015—February 28, 2016)
 • 2nd Place Experimental Film (Professional Subdivision), 2014 My Hero International Film Festival

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

We agreed with Deirdre Butler and the iTEC teachers.

However a collaborative classroom is what we don’t have but for which we are starting to work. 

Collaboration is an essential process in the 21st century and for that we must begin by putting teachers to work in this way. Working collaboratively involves discussion, consensus, respect, peer evaluation learning. Together we learn more.The use of technology in the classroom is an asset because soon the enthusiasm students and motivated students are the best there is in a classroom. 

However, we repeat that this beginning is not easy. 

We agreed with Bart. Regarding furniture, ours is old and whenever we change the layout of the tables and chairs at the beginning of the lesson in the end you have to put them as they were, as we already mentioned in this MOC, which leads to some loss of time. With regard to the use of technology for collaborative work we are beginning to use the Moodle platform where we create specific disciplines for each class. Here we include tutorials of some applications that the students can use, proposals of activities, for example, using the Powtoon and we have created a Padlet where students can share their work / ideas / conclusions. What we can verify is that we get the attention of the students they feel motivated. The use of these tools makes the shy students more confident and allows them to develop the ability to communicate. 

The examples presented are phenomenal, at least for us who are now implementing collaborative work. It is very difficult to select this or that application because there are so many and we do not have the time we need to explore them. And we already realized that when we wanted to do a lot we started to lose focus. If this happens to us who are adults, so does the students. However, being of the zap generation, they reveal much more easily than we do to manipulate them and manage through technology to develop their creativity. They are really amazing, we think we have to start trusting them. 

Identify what you especially like about each of the lessons

When we watch these videos, we feel that we are really far behind. They are very inspiring! What we like to see is the motivation with which the students work, the interest and dedication to the requested tasks, promoting the collaborative work, essential in the 21st century. This is considered to be the most powerful effect of ICT use in the classroom; Motivation. 

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.
Video - https://youtu.be/k-qZ3bjI-jU

It seems interesting to us to develop learning activities that do not aim at a specific goal or curriculum although it seems a bit strange, however, we are curious. We need examples. 

This activity is very interesting. We never did anything of this genre. Sometimes we make study visits, but at the end when they return to school, we ask them to respond individually to a small survey. 

We already know these rubrics. They makes sense if we want to draw a collaborative activity and make a careful assessment. This facilitates what to us seems complicated, the monitoring and evaluation of the whole process. However, it takes a lot of time to prepare and that... we don’t have. 

I sent my students some links from web articles about Sri Lanka (to the class e-mail), focusing on politics, economy, culture, traditions, language, historical facts,... I also sent a video from youtube about this country. In class they were divided in small groups and each one had to share the information that most touched them and also to discuss some topics. As a 'guide on the side' I was monitoring the students while they worked collaboratively. The conclusions or comments on the topics were written on Padlet by each group so that groups could share their opinions and interact with others. This flipped clasroom had the objective of preparing students for a Skype session with a person - a young doctor - from Sri Lanka. Each group then focused more on a specific topic about the country and on clear questions they would like to ask this person. All the students were eager to meet and be able to talk in real time with someone from Sri Lanka. They investigated, they interacted, they worked together, and they shared opinions, discussed ideas... So, they were motivated while learning, using 21^st Century Skills! … hide

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
Video - https://youtu.be/xaE3aMkZMwg

We never work on these concepts, new to us. However, it seems to us that this way of working is coherent when our activities are intended to be conducive to the development of 21st century skills. However it seems to us that it is time-consuming work. At this point we believe that we realize the idea. 

We are impressed. We are far, far from working this way. We have a lot of work to do and a lot to learn.

https://youtu.be/GeTpW1XiIsM

When we think of the student as a builder of their learning the presented learning scenario model is fantastic. Yet quite honestly at this point we aren’t felling able to perform any, we need more time to study, experience and know all the technological panoply unknown for us. We believe that with time we’ll be able to adapt don’t say all but at least one in ours classroom and then will be the best time to make a reflection on this subject. It's hard to give an opinion on something that for us is unknown and never experienced. Assessing all steps of the process seems to be complicated. However, it seems to us that, in order to prepare a collaborative learning activity according to the described scenarios, takes too much time and this is something that worries us. 

1.     Consider the advantages and disadvantages of peer review as a tool for teaching as well as a tool for professional development

2.     Develop your Learning Story further so that it incorporates the key elements covered during the course

3.     Reflect on the topics covered during the course by evaluating your peers’ Learning Stories
Video - https://youtu.be/ThS80D9kj7w

We do agree. As long as the work is done in a serious way and hoping that the reviews are constructive. This way we can improve our performance on behalf of our students. Whether it is among teachers or among students we believe that peer review is always positive for it may lead us to a reflective and critical thinking which is essential in the building of XXI century skills. We do not have enough experience to give opinions on this subject.