ICT and Digital Tools in Education

Summary Purpose Objectives Summary Teachers today face with many challenges. While integrating technology in the classroom should be something all teachers enthusiastically embrace, the rapid onslaught of new tools has left teachers overwhelmed and unmotivated. Many schools have investedin hardware, software,and internet access but in order for the curriculum to be truly integrated, teachers must also invest their time and effort to learn how to enhance their lessons with the various tools at their disposal. The instructional goal, therefore, of the first professional development series is that given…

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ICT, VR and Digital Tools in Education

Summary Purpose Objectives Summary Teachers today face with many challenges. While integrating technology in the classroom should besomething all teachers enthusiastically embrace, the rapid onslaught of new tools has left teachersoverwhelmed and unmotivated. Many schools have invested in hardware, software,and internet access butin order for the curriculum to be truly integrated, teachers must also invest their time and effort to learn howto enhance their lessons with the various tools at their disposal. Furthermore, Virtual reality (VR) is asimulated experience that uses position tracking and 3D near-eye displays to…

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The Social Media Classroom

Summary Purpose Objectives Summary The term “social media” includes all those forms of digital technology that allow as to communicate and share information or “content” with others using the internet. Social media include everything from blogs, wikis, and podcast to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, websites and apps. Social media are ideal for educators because they are nimble, flexible, easy to use and often very powerful: they focus on doing one thing only and on doing that thing well. Moreover, with social media students can participate easily in the…

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Distance Education

"Digital Tools and Methods for a Flexible and Modern Education" Summary Purpose Objectives Summary Distance learning, also called distance education, e-learning, and online learning, is a form of education in which the main elements include physical separation of teachers and students during instruction and the use of various technologies to facilitate student-teacher and student-student communication. Distance education was born and founded with the aim of democratizing access to educational practice. For many years it was a meeting place for trainees who needed flexibility or where unable to physically…

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Preventing Cyber-Bullying In Schools

Summary Purpose Objectives Summary The behavior of young people on the Internetis simply an extension and reflection of the attitudes and forms of discrimination adults models on a regularbasis in the physical world.Online activities that support communications for interpersonal, recreation, commercial, education, and government purposes have enabled variations of so-called Internet culture to emerge throughout the amorphous realm of cyberspace where youth and adults interact in ways that extend their activities, experiences, and associations. They do so in largely unmonitored, unregulated, and unsanctioned ways. What a person would…

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Coaching in the classroom – Creating the pedagogy that delivers deep learning, fosters resilience and creates reflective and independent learners

Summary Purpose Objectives Summary School coaching as a fieldcan play a key role in the social-emotional learning of young people. The term “school coaching” or “coaching in education” has been used loosely with a generally accepted definition as yet to be agreed on. School coachinghas been definedas a “one-to-one conversation focused on the enhancement of learning and development through increasing self-awareness and a senseof personal responsibility where the coach facilitates the self-directed learning of the coachee throughquestioning, active listeningand appropriate challenge in a supportive and encouraging climate”.Teacher coaching…

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