Will Ellis i TEC Project Manager European Schoolnet
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Will Ellis, i. TEC Project Manager, European Schoolnet. Designing the Future Classroom April 2012 i. TEC - Designing the future classroom 1
Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom “With 27 project partners, including 14 Ministries of Education, i. TEC will provide a model describing how the deployment of technology in support of innovative teaching and learning activities can move beyond small scale pilots and become embedded in all Europe’s schools. ” April 2012 i. TEC - Designing the future classroom 2
The future classroom: Visionaries vs pragmatists Which of these statements is most likely? 1. Schools will be abolished in the next 10 years and formal learning will be replaced by technology “As for thelearning. future, your task is not assisted informal to foresee it but to enable it. ” 2. Schools will revert to traditional teaching methods with the reintroduction of blackboards and textbooks Saint-Exupery and. Antoine significantlyde reduced spending on technology. 3. Schools will be much the same as they are now. April 2012 i. TEC - Designing the future classroom 3
The i. TEC Approach Create scenarios that support advanced pedagogical approaches and derive activities from them. Pilot and evaluate to confirm they promote positive innovation. April 2012 i. TEC - Designing the future classroom 4
The future classroom: Innovation vs mainstreaming April 2012 i. TEC - Designing the future classroom 5
Technical Vision Shells and Widgets April 2012 i. TEC - Designing the future classroom 6
Resource discovery service People as learning resources Shells April 2012 - Designing thecontent future classroom Usersi. TEC of learning 7
For further information WEB: http: //itec. eun. org EMAIL: itec-contact@eun. org The work presented in this presentation is partially supported by the European Commission’s FP 7 programme – project i. TEC: Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom (Grant agreement Nº 257566). The content of this presentation is the sole responsibility of the consortium members and it does not represent the opinion of the European Commission and the Commission is not responsible for any use that might be made of information contained herein.