The most important subject at this point is the year we are living in and the real world our pupils are living in. They are all the time playing with new "tools" that parents and teachers don't understand, and they are going to live in a completely different world, but we are the ones that actually know what do they have to do, because "this" is the path we did. Oh, please, come on!

We are preparing them for a new world that doesn't exist at the moment, so that they have to develop, the more competences the merrier, and the tablets and new personal devices are giving them the way to develop their foreign languages collaborating with people from all over the world, to solve some difficulties not only asking the "wise" teacher, but beeing independent on solving problems from different websites or collaborative tools, using games for learning (YES, games for learning, sic?), talking to each other, but not only classmates, but people from outside (SKYPE, HANGOUTS, CHATS...) using free internet tools or paying for some of them to keep in touch with the world.

Each pupil is a world, and they are learning in close places. Their minds are asking us for help, and the only word we give them is "study"; but "How?"

Introducing tablets in our school is the final step to the methodological changes we are implementing at the moment.

Before we do that, first, we have to solve our wireless connection, because, historically, the place where we are located, has had lots of problems because we haven't got a lot of population around. We are now investigating on how to solve this problem, a BIG technical one.

But, for us, the main challenge is the increasing of resilience in our staff, starting with the leaders and continuing with some colleagues, who think that this is only a new wave that will end so soon as it arrives at the beach. And this is not a question of age.

My opinion about that? I think that if the schools don't start changing the way of teaching and the way of learning, our pupils won't be ready for "this" future world. Things have changed a lot since I accessed to my dream job, but some say that we are still teaching the same way as we were taught. Much more would I say about it: I was taught as if I was born in the XIX century, and things haven't changed so much. Ask your pupils and their parents. The only difference they find between their books and their sons' ones is FOTOS AND PICTURES.

We aren't using tablets at our school at the moment, but we are on our way to implement it, and I think that the most important challenge will be the necessity of new learning spaces, the new pedagogical approaches we are going to need, and finally, but not the las, the biggest worry in our world: Exams. Are our students going to pass through their exams "if they don't study?"

But here my idea: "Walker, there's no path, it's made only when you walk" / "Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar" / Extracto de Proverbios y cantares from Antonio Machado, and adapted from Joan Manuel Serrat

I have known this app some months ago, but I don't working with it at the moment. Until now, I have watched some videos about it on the internet, and I think that it has got lots of applications to use them in our classes: quizzes, multiple choice questions, control the process of our students...

I think that it is an amazing tool.

The main reason I want to use tablets in my teaching is because I want to teach free from schoolbooks but, at the same time, I want to have access to as many information as possible. 
In addition, tablets have lots of good points in education: the learning process is more dynamic and attractive, it allow us to use a big amount of different tools and students and teachers can produce their own material and results. 
Moreover, tablets could be a good idea in order to protect the environment (you don't need to print materials when pupils have it in their tablets) and save money (yes, a tablet is something expensive, but less than buy lots of books every year since your child is 3 years old). 

Tablets can become the ultimate tools for learning and teaching, because they integrate all environments used to support learning: - Document sharing for team work - Access to LMS - Tools for the creation of content (video, photos, drawings) - Tools for taking notes - Access to all ebook - Search tools and analysis - Tools for self paced learning - Tools for displaying virtual objects Furthermore, the possibility of bringing the tablet wherever you can learn and teach anywhere, in a lifelong learning perspective.

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I would be concerned about the reaction of the parents. Many parents at my school were very traditional and sceptical towards new types of approaches in teaching & learning. If the students would suddenly come home and do all their homework on a tablet, sharing resources via social media and sending pictures of their local surroundings to me and fellow students, I am sure I would get some negative reactions from parents who would feel their children's education is not "academic" enough. To counter this - as a first step - I would organise a parent's evening, informing them about how I plan to use tablets and inviting them to join and follow the online communications I would have with my students.

The introduction of Tablets in education presents several challenges. For example, teachers need to realize that most students know or quickly figure out how to use the device. Teachers need to focus more on the curricular material and less on teaching their students the use of the device. Clear rules should be visible and known to all students, when using the Tablets in class. All expectations for a specific activity should be explained beforehand, in order for the activity to be successful.

The biggest challenge we face is not so much how to teach the classes using the Tablets, but how to evaluate them. The assessment of students should change in the same way it is changed the lesson development, must find a way to work in parallel for greater consistency. Another important challenge is the amount of time that must be invested in planning lessons from search applications, adjust the materials and find and change the contents to be presented in digital form.

TheLearning Scenarios' 7 phases are similar to the idea of "Design thinking", and reaaly funny for students, so that they're learning by doing, in a different role for them into a classroom.

I think it can be a useful idea for my eTwinning project, in the same way as Giuseppe has just written.

The most important challenge for us is that: teachers and methodological change. Pupils are sponges.

We are trying to start a project with a danish, a turkish and a german school together, related to the idea: EUROPEAN GREEN CAPITALS SINCE 2010: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, but we have only been accepted by eTwinning. We haven't started yet.

One colleague of the school is participating with a school of Hungary, Italy and, I don't remember where is the other school from, and they have asked a grant into the eTwinning project and Erasmus +

I usually work with google tools, but not always, because it can be boring for pupils if they feel themselves overassessed, and I promise, this has happened to me.

I used observation in the classes, but I asked for their help, so that they self -evaluate and evaluate each other too (as groups too).

I usually work with google tools, but not always, because it can be boring for pupils if they feel themselves overassessed, and I promise, this has happened to me.

I used observation in the classes, but I asked for their help, so that they self -evaluate and evaluate each other too (as groups too).

http://www.examtime.com called now GoConqur http://www.goconqur.com

http://www.socrative.com

http://www.blinklearning.com

Google Drive, Office 365, Edmodo, Endomondo, Cmap, Padlet, Facebook, Twitter, are great tools to share and work collaboratively too.

This world is increasing a lot, and the main problem is for me, to select the ones that could be actually helpful to fill our goals.

In my opinion, lots of teachers actually don't understand this situation of the Multiple Intelligences or different ways of learning of their pupils, because lots of them have taught the same way as they were taught, so that, if one pupils don't pass through a subject, is simply because he has not studied.

Sorry, but I don't understand this. And be sure that there aren't a few of those. This is the first step we should.

Do someone really think that every pupil of every school in the world studies on the same way? Why are our pupils hungry of knowledge during the first years of their education, and when they arrive to our secondary schools start to say to us the same sentences: "this is boring..." And the worst sentence comes from ourselves: "Anybody has told that studying should be funny".

PLEASE, WHY NOT? The best way for me to learn about their ways of learning? EASY: Talk to each other, so that you can find this information, make questions, be friendly, be closer... They are human beings, not tools.

Tablets are a great world of learning for students, and the use of apps will increase their level to the next step.

We are now in the first step of implementation of tablets, but any pupil is working with them at the moment.

Our goal is finishing working on a Flipped learning environment, but we are still in a world of collaborative learning. Our nest step is the world of the IM of Howard Gardner. Then we will start with the work on PBL.

Our main problem is nos INFRASTRUCTURE - Wireless connection, so that ,when we solve this problem, we will start with the tablets.

www.flippedclassroom.es

I am totally agree with this way of learning, but it has got one very big problem, in my opinion: if the whole group or teacher decides to flip their classes, what amount of work should prepare our students at home? I think this is the biggest challenge for the implementation of this way of learning in our schools.

It has got lots of advantages, but this could be a very big disadvantage: the lack or time at home working for the school, and... What's up with their time to play and read and... get bored.

And of course:

1- Access to the internet at home and schools. And speed for up and download documents.

2- Parents involvement.

3- Teachers involvement.

4- We are giving some ideas of the access of our students to the internet and its world of apps. Is that for real?

5 - How will this change our way of evaluating?

6- How to share information.

7- Digital spur of our students since they are very young. How do we (parents, schools...) control all this new situations?

TO BE CONTINUE... Start doing something and forget the problems. Be proactive and be ready for a new world of new limits... that will never end. The same way you have to learn new things, you must dislearn or forget some things you have always thought would never change.

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The only app I've ever used is SOCRATIVE. The rest ones, for example, Khan Academy, I've heard and read about it, but never used.

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