INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICT's) AND SCHOOL VISIT COURSE

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COURSE INFORMATION

 

ICT’s & SCHOOL VISIT in Dublin (Ireland) and in Tenerife (Spain) 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. Participants are expected to have at least B1 level of English proficiency. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to know a new education system by doing one school visit day in Dublin to know how they work on digitalization topic.

 

One of the strengths of the course lies in the presentation and use indeed of the iPad and other devices and a great range of educational apps to use in the classroom. Moreover, the course will focus on THE USE AND LEARNING OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES in the classroom, with special focus on the use of tablets as iPads or similar ones and discovering new apps but the achieve of all new knowledge as well. One of the goals of the course is to enable participants to introduce news technology (ICT) in classroom and apply the acquired skills to make knowledge accessible. We could do that in different ways such as by discovering and creating digital resources for teaching and learning. Students will work with modern technology to explore image and sound editing, the making of interactive presentations, the creation  of online and offline games activities, etc. All these activities and tools will help a lot of subjects such as mathematics, science, languages, etc., so interdisciplinary will be used as part as the digital resources.

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METHODOLOGY

ICT’s & SCHOOL VISIT course is based on theoretical and especially on practical lessons and presentations of examples of good practice as well as discussions and experience comparisons. The course will have lectures, seminars and workshops to ensure full comprehension and every day assingnment support. Every day will add new information about new devices, apps, programs, etc., and will create new links to strenghten future common projects. At the middle of the week all participants will have educational visits to other schools to know in person another Educational system and to know how other schools work.

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Moreover, participants will also have the opportunity to enjoy interactive and collaborative group classes. In addition, teachers will always have time to assess the information and the student’s job and redefine the contents and ways of working in order to improve the student’s skills.

 

Our experienced trainer will support and stimulate the networking and cooperation among participants. We organize workshops, networking and cultural activities in order to give participants the opportunity to exchange best-practices and establish professional cooperation and links. These activities will take part not only participants of the course but also other participants from different courses attended by the company. The expected training activity has been structured so that the participants can transfer know-how and develop needed skills to create and manage a proposal with real success.

 

In the end of the course, the company will provide the participants an attendance certificate including the detailed information about the course, e.g. title, programme and schedule. In addition, a Europass Mobility Certificate can be added on request.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

ICT’s & SCHOOL VISIT course covers all the needs to know the basic ideas of using ICT in the class. In detail, the concrete goals of the course are:

• To learn to use a great range of new tools and devices.

• To provide teachers to improve their practical skills related to the management of the idea and application process of the new technologies

• To assess and properly manage different digital tools to apply interdisciplinary skills through the curriculum.

• To help teachers to design and implement motivating activities for their students by using ICT within a new framework of critical principles.

• To strengthen European collaboration among –past, present and future– participants in the course.

• To share experiences of international collaboration and projects from different organizations in order to improve European awareness.

• To know other Educational Systems and be able to transfer the good practices in a satisfactory way to their own school centers.

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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.

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During the week it will develop the course with funny lessons and motivated activities to do with students once each participant will be back to your school, paying attention that all participants will have the opportunity to know some new educational systems. Furthermore, participants will be involved in cultural activities during the week with all actors of different courses attended by the company. Please find below the standard indicative daily programme:

 

DAY 1 – SUNDAY. WELCOMING.

- Meeting and greeting.

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

- Reception of all course material.

- Networking activity:  Guided session to find your best partner for a future JOB SHADOWING.

 

DAY 2 – MONDAY. SCHOOL PRESENTATIONS AND KNOWING NEW TOOLS.

- Presentation of the course and its target.

- Networking activity: Presentation of your own school.

- How to create QR codes, working on the design, how to elaborate and organize the contents and management.

- Working in groups to practice about how to use in the classroom. 

- Discovering interactive & real live presentation tools.

 

DAY 3 – TUESDAY. BE CREATIVE!!

- Brief school’s presentations. 

- Exhibition of a wide range of apps and tools to manage contents in the classroom.

- Be a director!!! Discovering video apps: stop motion, chroma video tool, iMovie, etc

 

DAY 4 – WEDNESDAY. DISCOVERING IPADs AND GAMIFICATION APPS.

- Working with tablets and iPads.

- The use of apps to gammificate the classroom.

- Explore another kind of apps, like collaborative board tools.

- Discussing group ideas proposed by groups to create different games. Brainstorming and team building.

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DAY 5 – THURSDAY. ICT SCHOOL VISIT DAY.

- ICT projects in action.

- Trip to observe some ICT projects at school.

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DAY 6 – FRIDAY. ENJOY THE VIRTUAL REALITY! PRACTICAL DAY.

- Knowing the world of Virtual & Augmented reality. Playing with different and awesome tools to discover Augmented and Virtual reality.

- Let's practice!! Cooperative working in groups making and applying different forms.

- Dissemination time and working in collaborative teams. 

- Course evaluation.

- Releasing official course certifications.

- Closing event.

 

DAY 7 – SATURDAY. CONCLUSION & CULTURAL ACTIVITY.

- Cultural activities.

- Participants departure.

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ICT's sessions:

ICT’s & SCHOOL VISIT course will attend editions during 2025 in the following dates:

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2025:

SPAIN – TENERIFE:

• From Sunday 19th January to Saturday 26th.

• From Sunday 23rd February to Saturday 1st March.

• From Sunday 13th April to Saturday 19th.

• From Sunday 20th April to Saturday 26th.

• 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 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.

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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.