I taught in 10 diferents Portuguese schools, since 2004, from the North to South of the country (Braga, Vizela, Ponte de Lima, Olhão, Albufeira e Aljezur).This school year I'm teaching in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island - Azores.

I have experience in basic and middle school, both at the subject of ICT and specific disciplines of vocational courses in computer science.

I love what I do.

The school has about 900 students divided by middle and high school. The school has three IT classroom. Each classroom is equipped with 14 computers, projector, interactive whiteboard and Internet. We don’t have tablets yet.

Research and newspaper articles on tablet use:

• Making Learning mobile- Stone Middle School: Project evaluation results - 2012/13 school year
• Pearson Student Mobile Device Survey 2013
• BBC News: Tablet computers in 70% of schools
• Geo magazine: Lernen mit neuen Medien (German)
• NMC: Horizon report on school education
• L'impact de l'iPad sur l'apprentissage des élèves  (French)
• “Using nearpod in elementary guided reading groups”
• Tablet vs. Paper: The Effect on Learners' Reading Performance
• Naace: the iPad as a tool for edcuation - a case study
• Tablets for Schools: Updated report on the use of tablets in Education
• White paper on Tablets and apps in school
• Introducing Tablets in Schools - The Acer-European Schoolnet Tablet Pilot

- Develop their understanding of the topic

- Learn how to create content

- Improve student's motivation participation and achievement

Role of students:

- Innovate

- Self-organised learning

- Present

- Learning portfolios

Role of Teacher:

- Communicate purpose

- Set goals and limits

- Produce a plan

- Define quality criteria

- Pre-select information

- Assign roles

- On-going support

- Help with publishing content

Role of Tablets:

- Explore: collecting data

- Make: creating content

- Ask: Ask

- Show: Show

Tips for your practice

- small, less time consuming projects

- purposeful and product

- free choice

- Content Creation

- Collaboration

- Flipped Classroom

- Personalised learning

B.What is Learning Scenario? (Vision of the classroom...)

- Learning Story

- Learning Objectives

- Activities

- Timeline

- Lesson Plans

1. Dream (brainstorm, share ideas, choose a topic which they like to explore)

2. Explore (collect information on a certain topic)

3. Map (structed their thoughts and ideas and seek to undestand how they are related)

4. Make (develop or create a product or practice an activity - interview experts or stakeholders)

5. Ask

6. Re-make (re-plan or re-visit their product based on the feedback of further information they recived=

7.Show (publish or present)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT3bTrpKDHI&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vYKQWsHrO8&list=PL65qZVknfxekZBmicFYsze7oFUyqrfe1I&index=3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrXx8GZNXsk&list=PL65qZVknfxekZBmicFYsze7oFUyqrfe1I&index=17

Add an idea..

http://creative.eun.org/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=82b21700-92c7-4a28-8d67-ebd81422a599&groupId=96459

http://creative.eun.org/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=c98f7705-f465-48a6-a835-f8cfa7ef207d&groupId=96459

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/27/tablets-schools-coding-kids-education-ipad

Not Free

http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book240314

In Module 1 there were three main questions. Each question should make you REFLECT ON YOUR SITUATION and the use of tablets:

1. What is your main reason for using or wanting to use tablets in your classroom?Most students already have access to tablets and smartphones but dont know how to take advantage of technology, only play games like a "playstation"
2. What whole-school challenges do I already face or do I anticipate facing when using tablets? Slow Internet connection high number of students in the class Apps to learn ICT
3. What classroom challenges do I already face or do I anticipate facing when using tablets? Slow Internet connection high number of students in the class

• Group of two or more students. 
• Students try to search, to understand a topic, find solutions to a given problem, or create a product together.
• Collaboration is a skill in it self that needs to be learned and that requires plans and guides by the teacher.
• It put students and they collective learning experience at the center of learning.
• Students interact and share ideas knowledge and resources with peers. That way they that way they gain experience in conflict resolutions, self criticism, self evaluation and self reflection.
• Can support students to develop a number of XXI century competencies:

1. communication skills
2. personal skills
3. collective problems solving skills
4. cooperation
5. teamwork
6. leadership

B. Roles of students and teacher:

ROLE OF STUDENT  

observer

reporter

challenger

presenter

lider

mediator in case of conflit

Task to the students:

Listen to other and establish common goals

Assign and carry out different roles and teams corresponding to their skill and interests

search and share resources

assess their own work and then of others

They need to switch between individual and collaborative tasks.

People to collaborate with can be:

students of the class or of the school

students of other schools

teachers

experts out of the school

Develop and present a product as the outcome of the group work

ROLE OF TEACHER

- Support the process as adviser and time-keeper of the process.

http://teamup.aalto.fi/

https://en.actionbound.com/

Tricider

PowerLeague

TitanPad

Todays Meet

Popplet

TeamUp

E.Twinning

1. Developed a clear understanding of the concepts of personalized learning and the flipped classroom
2. Understood how to use a number of apps to personalize or flip the classroom
3. Reflected on an example of how teaching is personalized
4. Reflected on your own teaching practices as regards personalized and flipped learning and flipped learning
5. Designed a lesson plan that incorporates ideas, strategies, tools introduced on the course
6. Reflected on the effectiveness of other people's lesson plans
7. Developed an understanding of how tablets can support children with special educational needs

Class Flow

Computer Science Apps