GOING DIGITAL IN AN INNOVATIVE CLASSROOM

WITH APPS AND NEW ICT TECHNOLOGIES

COURSE INFORMATION

This training is a practical approach which helps teachers to improve quality and effectivity of educational processes in the classroom using new technologies. Students will be more motivated with game-creation and collaborative tools having fun while learning at the same time. Encouraging critical and creative thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills in our students are examples that will broaden your teaching potential.

This course has been designed for teachers who want to integrate educational apps and digital tools into their methodology. Participants will learn about some of the most suitable collaborative tools to foster students’ engagement and motivation. Project-based learning and online platforms will be integrated into the classroom as valuable tools to support each student’s learning rhythm.

Moreover, the course will focus on innovative methodologies to make content more visually engaging for students. With active learning techniques in our classroom, teachers will guide them in the educational process helping them to think, explain ideas or propose solutions. These techniques involve using ICT’s tools for video-editing, team-building and digital boards to share.

Educators will develop strategies to increase student interest and participation using gamification and collaborative techniques, improving overall classroom dynamics and learning outcomes. Digital literature and comics online will encourage active reading so every kind of books will be more appealing to them.

Participants will learn as well how to use Scratch in the classroom to enable students to code their own interactive stories, animations and games applied to many different subjects and grades.

This course is aimed for teachers and school staff from pre-school level to primary, secondary, vocational, adult and special needs education, staff of non-government organizations, government and policy makers and company staff. Non-native English trainers expecting participants to have at least B1 level of English proficiency.

METHODOLOGY

Going digital in an Innovative classroom is based on practical examples to help the participants to design their own tasks and lesson plans, although some guidance will be given as well on current theoretical knowledge. Every day the course will have presentations, seminars and workshops dealing with different online tools or learning techniques. First the participants will get the new information and play as a student-role, then, cooperative groups will be created and they will be able to develop specific ICT tools to work now as a teacher designing new content adapted to the students’ needs. The trainer will be monitoring all the time while the participants are carrying out the tasks.

By the end of the week, participants will gain practical expertise with many apps and educational platforms that will simplify and make more effective their work as educators. They will feel more confident in using the most appropriate tool in their classroom. On top of that, participants will share the knowledge of the training with his or her educational community once they are back to their school.

In addition, participants will work and receive a huge number of documents to improve their knowledge in the different areas integrated in the course. Our experienced trainers will support and stimulate the networking and cooperation among participants. At the end of the course, the company will provide the participants an attendance certificate including the detailed information about the course, e.g., title, programmed and schedule. In addition, a Europass Mobility Certificate can be added on request.

MAIN OBJECTIVES

This course covers all the needs to digitalize successfully your classroom using innovative techniques. In detail, the specific objectives of the course are:

To provide teachers with practical ideas for how they can incorporate collaborative work into their existing lessons.
To get a new insight on ICT tools and learn new ways and practices to integrate new technologies into education.
To be familiarized with different new methodologies to make education more engaging motivating and innovative.
To present useful online resources which allow educators to have more active learning lessons developing team-work and critical thinking among the students.
To exchange best practices and share experiences with participants and staff coming from different countries.
To strengthen European collaboration among –past, present and future– participants.

Thanks to this course the participants will:

Learn to use the top educational apps for engaging students in a cooperative classroom.
Discover new ways of using images and videos in the lesson.
Realize the importance of cooperative work for students who take the ownership of their own learning
Develop the necessary skills to start up easily an interactive classroom with students.
Make contacts with new partners interested in developing European Projects through specific networking activities.

DAILY PROGRAMME

The manager of the company usually welcomes participants on Sunday afternoon and gives them all the information about courses and Erasmus week. The main training activities, instruction and practices will take place from Monday to Friday. Moreover, participants will be able to explain their own school and Erasmus project to the rest of participants in the beginning of the week and, after that, work all together to set up future eTwinnings or even Job Shadowing. On another note, participants will be involved in cultural activities held by the company during afternoon time. Finally, there will be a course’ roundup and a final evaluation on Friday or Saturday morning, depending on the participants' departure time, and the delivery of the certificates of attendance. Here you have below the standard indicative daily programme of the course.

DAY 1 – SUNDAY. LET’S MEET US!

- Meeting and greeting.

- Individual orientation and information about the venue and the city.

- Networking activity.

DAY 2 – MONDAY. LET´S GO DIGITAL!

- Networking activity: Presentation of your own school and your Erasmus project.

- Digital boards to share information

- Photo and video editing with a professional touch.

DAY 3 – TUESDAY. COOPERATIVE & ACTIVE LEARNING

- Blended learning.

- Flipped classroom.

- Cooperative dynamics.

- Edpuzzle.

- Nearpod.

DAY 4 – WEDNESDAY. USING GAMES FOR ENHANCING LEARNING

- Different gamification tools

- Learning games strategies for empowering teachers

- Gamification practice

- How to design easily your own game.

- Let´s play altogether!

DAY 5 –THURSDAY. TRANSFORMING EDUCATION FOR EFFECTIVE LEARNING

- The best online platforms for your school.

- Integrating AI in your presentations to make the content more attractive.

- Questionnaires with Microsoft.

- Scratch, creative learning with coding.

DAY 6 – FRIDAY. DIGITAL STORYTELLING

- Storybird to become a better writer online.

- Discovering and creating new comics using technology.

- Collaborative work in teams to design a lesson plan.

- Presentation of the projects.

- Course evaluation.

- Releasing official course certifications.

DAY 7 – SATURDAY. CONCLUSION.

- Course evaluation.

- Releasing official course certifications.

- Participants departure.

DATES:

Innovative methodologies and ICT tools in the Classroom course will attend sessions during 2025 in following dates:

2025:

SPAIN – ALICANTE:

From Sunday 19th January to Saturday 25th.
From Sunday 23rd February to Saturday 1st March.
From Sunday 2nd March to Saturday 8th.
From Sunday 6th April to Saturday 12th.
From Sunday 13th April to Saturday 19th.
From Sunday 20th April to Saturday 26th.
From Sunday 27th April to Saturday 3rd May.
From Sunday 25th May to Saturday 31st.
From Sunday 1st June to Saturday 7th.
From Sunday 22nd June to Saturday 28th.
From Sunday 29th June to Saturday 5th July.
From Sunday 6th July to Saturday 12th.
From Sunday 13th July to Saturday 19th.
From Sunday 20th July to Saturday 26th.
From Sunday 10th August to Saturday 16th.
From Sunday 17th August to Saturday 23rd.
From Sunday 24th August to Saturday 30th.
From Sunday 5th October to Saturday 11th.
From Sunday 12th October to Saturday 18th.
From Sunday 19th October to Saturday 25th.
From Sunday 26th October to Saturday 1st November.
From Sunday 2nd November to Saturday 8th.
From Sunday 23rd November to Saturday 29th.
From Sunday 30th November to Saturday 6th December.

ICELAND – REYKJAVÍK:

From Sunday 23rd February to Saturday 1st March.
From Sunday 2nd March to Saturday 8th.
From Sunday 13th April to Saturday 19th.
From Sunday 20th April to Saturday 26th.
From Sunday 27th April to Saturday 3rd May.
From Sunday 22nd June to Saturday 28th.
From Sunday 29th June to Saturday 5th July.
From Sunday 6th July to Saturday 12th.
From Sunday 13th July to Saturday 19th.
From Sunday 20th July to Saturday 26th.
From Sunday 10th August to Saturday 16th.
From Sunday 17th August to Saturday 23rd.
From Sunday 24th August to Saturday 30th.
From Sunday 5th October to Saturday 11th.
From Sunday 12th October to Saturday 18th.
From Sunday 19th October to Saturday 25th.
From Sunday 26th October to Saturday 1st November.
From Sunday 2nd November to Saturday 8th.

SPAIN – TENERIFE, MÁLAGA:

From Sunday 12th February to Saturday 18th.
From Sunday 19th February to Saturday 25th.
From Sunday 23rd February to Saturday 1st March.
From Sunday 13th April to Saturday 19th.
From Sunday 20th April to Saturday 26th.
From Sunday 6th July to Saturday 12th.
From Sunday 13th July to Saturday 19th.
From Sunday 20th July to Saturday 26th.
From Sunday 10th August to Saturday 16th.
From Sunday 17th August to Saturday 23rd.
From Sunday 24th August to Saturday 30th.
From Sunday 5th October to Saturday 11th.
From Sunday 12th October to Saturday 18th.
From Sunday 19th October to Saturday 25th.
From Sunday 26th October to Saturday 1st November.

IRELAND– DUBLIN:

From Sunday 13th April to Saturday 19th.
From Sunday 20th April to Saturday 26th.
From Sunday 6th July to Saturday 12th.
From Sunday 13th July to Saturday 19th.
From Sunday 20th July to Saturday 26th.
From Sunday 10th August to Saturday 16th.
From Sunday 17th August to Saturday 23rd.
From Sunday 24th August to Saturday 31st.
From Sunday 5th October to Saturday 11th.
From Sunday 12th October to Saturday 18th.
From Sunday 19th October to Saturday 25th.
From Sunday 26th October to Saturday 1st November.

COST AND ERASMUS + FUNDING

The cost of the seven day course is 560€ and includes course fees, free cultural activities in the city during the week and certification of attendance. Organizational costs can be charged if registration comes from an intermediate company. The company offers an Optional cultural package to deepen the relationship between all participants.

The training course is tailored to be fully funded by Erasmus + to teachers, trainers, headmasters and any other staff of education organizations. Furthermore trainers can help in Key Action 1 Application to ensure that participants can get the grant and could be eligible to receive an Erasmus + grant that covers all the costs of the course.

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