Read more about the article Without Borders: Intercultural Education through Innovative tools and ICT
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Without Borders: Intercultural Education through Innovative tools and ICT

Summary Purpose Objectives Summary Migration is a multidimensional and multilevel phenomenon. Its complexity is due to the fact that it is associated with human evolution and it concerns many areas, such as economic policy and culture, but also psychology and sociology. The intercultural approachto a group of learners is expressed through a process where the emphasis is on getting to know and interact with the different cultures that make up a society.Cultural diversity is undoubtedly reflected in the public school. The classroom environment itself, when judged to be…

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Read more about the article ICT and Digital Tools in Education
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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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Read more about the article ICT, VR and Digital Tools in Education
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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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Read more about the article The Social Media Classroom
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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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Read more about the article Distance Education
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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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Read more about the article Preventing Cyber-Bullying In Schools
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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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Read more about the article Coaching in the classroom – Creating the pedagogy that delivers deep learning, fosters resilience and creates reflective and independent learners
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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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Read more about the article Effective communication – Teaching and learning strategies
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Effective communication – Teaching and learning strategies

Summary Purpose Objectives Summary The purpose of good communication is to get the right message to the right people in the right way. It sounds simple, but many people fail to organize their communications properly, leading to misunderstanding, frustration and missed opportunities. More than ever before, its importance is heightened by the fact that the whole world has now become a global village due to the development of modern technology. The place of effective communication is so central and indispensable in the classroom teaching and learning process. Teachers…

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Read more about the article Inclusive Education through Arts
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Inclusive Education through Arts

Summary Objectives Summary “Creativity concerns what we do with our abilities”,David. N.  Perkins, “The Mind’s best work”,1942Different people learn in different ways. Each of us develops his or her learning style, capacities, preferences, and limitations. Some prefer to start with practical action and then reflect on what does or does not work, others prefer to have the theoretical explanation first. It’s important to learn how to combine positive sides of different personal styles and different methodological approaches to reach as many people as possible. We learn from our…

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Read more about the article CLIL: Language as tool for innovation and effectiveness in teaching
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CLIL: Language as tool for innovation and effectiveness in teaching

Summary Purpose Objectives Summary Contemporary teaching requires up to date methods and tools. Teachers nowadays are not playing the role of the traditional master of knowledge anymore, but they are the medium and the guide in the process of acquiring the new knowledge. CLIL teaching method (Content and Language Integrated Learning) constitutes the key in methodizing the teaching act through the tools it offers to teachers worldwide. CLIL method is designed in order to make the teaching act on the one hand innovative and on the other hand…

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