There have been a great number of changes in education systems worldwide recently. Typically schools had an isolated control over pupils' education, preparing learners for exams before continuing onto further education or work. Thus, teaching was mostly exam preparation or exam training, especially in the final years of the secondary schools. The learners of the 21st century need innovative methods integrated into the teaching process. Students are motivated by solving real-world problems and express a preference for doing rather than listening.Good pedagogy encourages the following:- development of critical thinking to find solutions- learners are given the opportunity to reflect on their learning, both individually and as a team - active engagement with concepts, facts, models and procedures linked to real-life context- creative use of emerging technologies to promote learning, prepare for a working life- collaboration as an integral part of the school curriculum within the school and with external agents- interdisciplinary perspective has entered education with ICT being a key skill used across the curriculum - students must get accustomed to integrated assessment that reflects real-world evaluation processesWe have created a project which is centered around a series of 5 activities using recently available technologies and their respective software / hardware requirements. Our activities have the broad titles:EntrepreneurshipJournalismLanguage SkillsBroadcastingAnimationWe intend to use these as the vehicle for delivering different aspects of the curriculum. Our target groups of teachers, student teachers and pupils will hopefully see an improvement in attainment whilst developing many Key Action 2 competences (School avoiders, entrepreneurship, linguistic skills, cross-sector cooperation, active citizenship, innovation)
There have been a great number of changes in education systems worldwide recently. Typically schools had an isolated control over pupils' education, preparing learners for exams before continuing onto further education or work. Thus, teaching was mostly exam preparation or exam training, especially in the final years of the secondary schools. The learners of the 21st century need innovative methods integrated into the teaching process. Students are motivated by solving real-world problems and express a preference for doing rather than listening.Good pedagogy encourages the following:- development of critical thinking to find solutions- learners are given the opportunity to reflect on their learning, both individually and as a team - active engagement with concepts, facts, models and procedures linked to real-life context- creative use of emerging technologies to promote learning, prepare for a working life- collaboration as an integral part of the school curriculum within the school and with external agents- interdisciplinary perspective has entered education with ICT being a key skill used across the curriculum - students must get accustomed to integrated assessment that reflects real-world evaluation processesWe have created a project which is centered around a series of 5 activities using recently available technologies and their respective software / hardware requirements. Our activities have the broad titles:EntrepreneurshipJournalismLanguage SkillsBroadcastingAnimationWe intend to use these as the vehicle for delivering different aspects of the curriculum. Our target groups of teachers, student teachers and pupils will hopefully see an improvement in attainment whilst developing many Key Action 2 competences (School avoiders, entrepreneurship, linguistic skills, cross-sector cooperation, active citizenship, innovation)