Models of ICT integration in education Madrid – 16 – 18 March 2010
Marc Durando
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Today’s presentation 1. European Schoolnet: role and approach
2. The benefits of EUN for its MoE
3. Some examples
4. Agenda for the future and conclusion
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Today’s presentation 1. European Schoolnet: role and approach
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What is European Schoolnet (EUN)? Network of 31 Ministries of Education in Europe
Dedicated to Support schools in bringing about the best use of technology in learning
Promote the European dimension in schools and education
Improve and raise the quality of education in Europe
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Our stakeholders and target groups Stakeholders
Target groups
Ministries of Education
Teachers, Pupils
IT Industry and Suppliers
School Leaders
European Commission
European Schoolnet Policy makers
Schools Researchers Developers Experts
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Three mains Strands of activities Knowledge building and Exchange on ICT policies and practice
EUN Activities
School networking and services
Interoperability and content exchange
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Working Modalities Steering Committee Presidium Board of Directors
Policy and Innovation Sub committee
EUN workprogramme EUN budget
EUN Office Brussels based Office 45 staff 15 nationalities
5 Working Groups
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Five Working Groups Interactive Whiteboards
Insight Peer Exchange
Knowledge transfer and access
LRE
Digital skills Portal www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.org
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Range of Projects and Services School Validation
ICT policies and practice
Insight Portal PIC
Peer Learning ICT Cluster
School Innovation Internet Safety
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eTwinning
CELEBRATE Xplora CALIBRATE Xperimania
EUN Activities
MELT Interoperability and content exchange
School networking and services LIFE
LRE
Spring Day
Development Youth Prize
eLearning Awards
ASPECT
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Policy, research and innovation Online observatory
Insight: policy and practice in ICT in education
Knowledge brokerage platform
New approach initiated with MoEs (two topics – games and digital skills)
Annual conference
EMINENT conference for high level decision makers
Research studies
Impact of ICT in schools, games in teaching, ICT literacy / eSkills‌
Policy and innovation Sub Committee (PIC) www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.org
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School services EU cooperation & citizenship
eSafety
MST actions
•Teachtoday •Insafe
eSkills •Xplora •MST platform •Intelligent energy
•eTwinning •Spring Day
International education network
International cooperation
Competitions & campaigns eLearning Awards •Euro competition
Community of Practices (teachers, pupils) eTwinning, games, LRE
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Interoperability & content exchange Learning resource exchange
Interoperability services for federating national resource repositories
Standards
Participation in the standards process for learning objects
R&D
Research into use of learning objects, new pedagogies, personalisation
Networking
Leader of ASPECT, participation in EDRENE
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Today’s presentation 1. European Schoolnet: role and approach
2. The benefits of EUN for its MoE
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Benefits for Ministries of Education Join a network
31 MoE part of the network
Knowledge transfer and access
Benefit from the expert knowledge of EUN in its 3 strands of activities.
Project Agency role
Access a European platform to take part in successful consortia leading large scale European projects
Peer Learning
Get first hand contact with other colleagues in other Education Ministries in Europe. Keep up to date with the developments in the field of ICT Policy in Education
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EUN Resolution - December 2007 Sharing and reuse Of digital resources
EUN Resolution Promote the use of evidence (usages) Practices in schools
Ministries of Education
Encourage and enable eTwinning
December 2007
Particular attention to Maths, Sciences and Technology
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Today’s presentation 1. European Schoolnet: role and approach
2. The benefits of EUN for its MoE
3. Some examples
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Some Examples Results of the STEPS study
ACER/EUN netbook project
Examples
eTwinning
Learning Resources Exchange
Maths Science and Technology projects
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Results of the STEPS study Study of the impact of technology in primary schools (DGEAC and EACEA funding)
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Approach and Methodology : Multiple perspectives Teacher survey: 18,000 interviews 60 research studies: 22 countries Policy survey: 30 Correspondents School survey: 255 respondents Birmingham UK
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Impact on learners /1: Knowledge, skills and competences • Use of ICT at home does not necessarily relate to • Teachers are positive education purposes. • ICT supports competence development • ICT helps children understand better • Correlation with PISA results (home and school ICT use • ICT improves support for individual needs provides better achievements in some disciplines – sciences). • Main issue concerns the relation to knowledge – access to information via ICT does not necessarily •Learners may lack basic computer skills access to knowledge. •mean Discrepancy between home and school ICT access
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Impact on learners /2: Motivation, confidence and engagement in learning • More motivated and attentive • Positive attitude and engagement • Impact on group processes and collaborative learning •Learning environment out of school has developed. • Overcome low motivation, social diversity and disengagement • It now implies that the relation to knowledge building is changing • Learners participate more actively • Guided enquiry-based tasks are motivating • Learning inside and outside of school • Parental engagement www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.org
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Impact on teachers : ICT is pedagogically under-used
• Used more for administration, organisation and
planning • Lack of pedagogical vision • Lack of integration of ICT in each subject prevents new pedagogical approaches
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EUN – ACER netbook project What does the Acer-EUN pedagogical netbook pilot entail?
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Six countries participating
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Objectives of the netbook project Understanding and documenting how learners and teachers can use netbooks in various educational contexts:
Place in school vs. out of school use
Context individual vs. collaborative use
Purpose educational vs. leisure use of such practices
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What will teachers do Plan a pedagogical project where teachers and pupils use netbooks in an educational context
Activities of Teachers
Designing pedagogical scenarios for future use Participate in an online Community of practice for teachers, and other relevant online events. Provide detailed feedback on teachers and students experience www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.org
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Possible pedagogical scenarios Using existing digital learning resources
Creating new pedagogical resources
Collaborative activities within schools (of # countries)
Using netbooks to connect to the school VLEs
Using netbooks to work with Interactive White Boards
Using netbooks for communication between schools and parents
Class project 2 or more teachers Cross Curricular approach
Teacher creates single project
Context School vs home Individual vs collaborative
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Pre Pilot and full deployment phases 10 classes per country = 60 classes in total 5 teachers per class = 50 teachers/country Pre Pilot Total of 300 teachers involved
January to June 2010 50 classes per country = 300 classes in total 5 teachers per class = 250 teachers/country Full Deployment
Total of 1500 teachers involved
September 2010 to June 2011
Around 10 000 Netbooks and 1 500 notebooks distributed www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.org
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eTWinning developments
A Lifelong Learning Programme initiative - Comenius action
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eTwinning 1.0 (2005) Launched to encourage school collaboration in Europe
Designed to find partners; create, manage and run school projects www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.org
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eTwinning has evolved
eTwinning Projects
Critical Mass Communications and networking beyond Projects Activities outside the Portal Sharing and exchanging
Time for eTwinning 2.0
Informal collaboration
Comenius Partnerships
Peer learning Sharing of resources and ideas Community building
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eTwinning is social The community for schools in Europe where teachers:
Find each other and get in touch Share practice and ideas Are engaged in informal learning Set up & run projects with their pupils Get together Inand 23 attend learning events
languages‌
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eTwinning schools
eTwinning projects
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Learning Resource Exchange - LRE Outcomes from R&D
CELEBRATE, CALIBRATE, LIFE, MELT, ASPECT
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Building a Learning Resource Exchange CELEBRATE
demonstration project
CALIBRATE
connecting repositories
MELT
content enrichment eQNet applying ‘travel well’ quality criteria 2009-2012
emapps iClass
ASPECT
content standards
LRE www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.org
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Learning Resource Exchange - LRE Outcomes from R&D
CELEBRATE, CALIBRATE, LIFE, MELT, ASPECT
Public Service for Schools
Access to learning resources and learning assets via harvesting and federating approaches
MoE Initiative
16 MoE repositories connected 40 000 learning resources, 100 000 assets First large-scale European implementation of Creative Commons licenses
Challenges
Travel resources, tagging resources Quality of resources User generated content Economical model to be created
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Learning Resource Exchange - LRE • 140,000 learning resources/assets from 25 content providers including 19 MoE • Open educational resources with Creative Commons licenses that ‘travel well’ • Not a centralised portal… but a framework that supports semantic and technical interoperability of content repositories http://lreforschools.eun.org
Situation MST of MST in Education challenges Attractiveness in Europe for MST studies (difficult, image, ‌.)
3 Main Issues
Career prospects (compared to other sectors)
New pedagogical approaches
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4 KEY FACTORS •Highly qualified and well trained teachers. Motivated and recognised teachers
•Recognition of teacher profession (MST). •In service training of teachers.
•Target the formal education system and embed actions in the curriculum.
Innovative pedagogy and creative curriculum
•Provide teachers with new content, tools and pedagogical approaches (access to new learning resources). •Provide examples of transferable good practice.
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4 KEY•Platform FACTORS for exchange of practices •Peer exchange + peer learning approaches Role and engagement of industry
•Better information to teachers on what exists, on what industry offers, etc. •Access to industrial facilities and company research labs and virtual facilities? •We need better role models
A shift in the demand side
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EUN Activities in MST Policy and Practice activities Resource platform - Peer exchanges
Awareness activities – School competition
Validation schools Experimentation with schools and teachers
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EUN Activities in MST Xplora portal European gateway to science education (DG research)
Inspire 60 schools use a MST LRE (DGEAC)
Xperimania Inquiry based science education Petrochemistry
ITEMS Teacher training course in the use of Los (DG EAC)
Nanoyou Awareness of nanotechnologies among schools In Europe (DG research)
Future Energia Inquiry based science education Energy efficiency (Plastics Europe)
SPICE lite Science Pedagogy Innovation Centre for Europe (DG EAC)
ICT career perception survey (Cisco)
eSkills awareness week (DG Enterprise and Industry)
Women in IT Imagine cup (Microsoft)
MST Platform - Scientix (DG Research) www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.org
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Today’s presentation 1. European Schoolnet: role and approach
2. The benefits of EUN for its MoE
3. Some examples
4. Agenda for the future and conclusion
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iTEC proposal A call to address Learning in the 21st Century…. (TEL Call – FP 7 – DG research)
Large-scale pilots for the design of the future classroom (exploring both technology and teaching practices). www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.org
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iTEC proposal Research should address
Innovation in learning and teaching
Underlining change processes
New summative and formative assessment methods
Novel solutions supporting the active participation of a wider community of stakeholders
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Some iTEC assumptions 1
School will continue to be the key location where learning (including mentoring and assessment) takes place
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We need to engage learners in schools
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Learning in schools will increasingly involve stakeholders outside the school
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It will become less acceptable to require pupils to ‘power down’ in schools www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.org
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ICT in Classrooms Tools and services supporting learning are likely to be fairly small, autonomous applications
Unsure how the VLE or learning platform will evolve? Increasing interest in new, interactive multi-touch, technologies (IWB technologies and beyond) Smart – Promethean iTEC partners
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iTEC approach Scenarios of future classroom
High Reactivity
Scaling up
Teachers centred
Multistakeholder - MoE, Innovative teachers, Industry partners, other stakeholders
Rapid prototyping of applications and learning activities matching the scenarios
Large-scale pilots - 15 MoE - >1,000 classes
How teachers can more easily select and combine relevant technology components (beyond Web 2.0) tailored to the future classroom scenario of their choice www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.org
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Mainstreaming iTEC scenarios Living Lab
Policy makers and commercial ICT suppliers can rethink and test designs for the future classroom
High level Group
Includes the formation of a high-level group of ‘decision shapers’ from 15 MoE
Educational reform processes
Will help ensure that iTEC results feed into the educational reform process at both national and European level
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Conclusion - Timeframe A 50 years old teacher transmits to his pupils (who will use them in 10 – 15 years) knowledge that he/she has acquired 25/30 years ago. The communication period of the knowledge is therefore of 40 years, which means twice longer than any period which measures the key transformations of our society www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.org
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Further information
http://www.eun.org http://insight.eun.org http://www.xplora.org http://www.futurenergia.org http://www.xperimania.net Contact: Marc.durando@eun.org
Thank you.
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