ICT tools
SoLAR Concept Paper: Open Learning Analytics
Significant potential exists for analytics to guide learners, educators, administrators, and funders in making learning-related decisions. Learning analytics represent the application of “big data” and analytics in education. This proposal expresses the importance of a planned and integrated approach to developing insightful and easy-to-use learning analytics tools.
Inaugural European Conference on Technology in the Classroom
Conference Theme: "The Impact of Innovation: Technology and You"
Technology is all around us. Long gone are the days when we could just walk into a classroom with a handful of papers and a piece of chalk. Even if we are in an environment that is lacking resources, our students with mobile phones, internet café, and social networking, are exposed to technology daily. And new uses of technology are being introduced daily. These new uses show how innovation and creativity go hand-in-hand. We invite language educators, administrators, policy makers, and others to join us at ECTC 2013 as we examine technology’s impact upon our classrooms, share what innovations we are currently implementing, and look to the future imagining the role technology will play in education.
ECTC 2013 will attract a diverse group of teachers, researchers, practitioners and scholars who are engaged in the singular goal of meeting students' educational needs, as students can learn about crucial issues and become familiar with web-based learning and other information technology tools. The use of technology in the classroom represents a significant departure from traditional teaching methods, conducting research, assessing student performance and assurance of learning. Moreover, it creates a user friendly and economically viable environment conducive to learning in any corner in the world where access to technology exists.
Na dejavnostih temelječe učenje in IKT: kreativne aktivnosti v kontekstu evropskega projekta
V članku opisujemo 2 dejavnosti, ki ju je predlagala italijanska ekipa in ki dobro predstavita smisel tega projekta. Opisana primera imata število skupnih lastnosti, pa čeprav se razlikujeta glede na trajanje dejavnosti, na vsebinsko znanje, na katero sta naslovljena, na tip predlaganih nalog in na uporabljena orodja IKT. V obeh primerih so morali učenci ustvariti nek določen izdelek v skladu s svojimi zanimanji in izkušnjami; usmerjen je moral biti za javnost izven šolskega razreda, se pravi realno javnost. V obeh primerih se je od njih zahtevalo, da uporabijo kreativnost, za samo vodenje dejavnosti so imeli popolnoma svobodne roke in zato so se zavedali, da so protagonisti ter da so odgovorni za svoje rezultate. Obe dejavnosti je enostavno prilagoditi različnim situacijam v izobraževanju, ker je njuna moč bolj odvisna od idej, na katerih temeljita, kot pa na izdelkih, ki jih razvijata.
Inovacija v teh primerih ni v uporabljeni metodi ali tehnologiji, temveč prej v načinu uporabe. Primera kažeta, da je delo, izvedeno na domiseln način dejansko lahko učinkovito, izvajanje pa ni niti težavno niti drago. Učitelji naj bi torej v svojem pedagoškem načrtovanju uporabljali kreativnost in se naučili gledati na običajna orodja z drugimi očmi.