ICT, VR and Digital Tools in Education

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 invested in 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. Furthermore, Virtual reality (VR) is a
simulated experience that uses position tracking and 3D near-eye displays to immerse the viewer in a
virtual world. Virtual reality has applications in business, education (such as medical or military training),
and entertainment (especially video games) (such as virtual meetings). The instructional goal, therefore, of
the first professional development series is that given a standards-based instructional goal, the teachers
will select the appropriate ICT and digital tools to integrate into the curriculum producing activities with
these that promotes 21st Century Skills.

The aim of the course is to provide knowledge on contemporary educational approaches that draw on the
principles of ICT education, distance learning and Virtual Reality and promote equal learning, participation
and learning opportunities for all students. The course aims to be practical and with the use of digital tools to
enable teachers to create their own educational material and apply participatory techniques in order to
complete the needs of the modern education and make the lesson more flexible and attractive for young
learners.

The project aims for the participants to:

• Realize the importance of digital expectancy and creativity in Modern School.
•  Know the importance of introducing digital pedagogies in classrooms.
• Discover new methodologies for online learning.
•  Differentiate new trends in digital pedagogies.
• Learn about new digital tools.
•  Get familiar with ICT, digital storytelling and their emerging role in contemporary education.
• Plan and design effective learning experiences supported by contemporary ICT technologies.
• Be able to schedule and apply hybrid lessons.
• Approach to Virtual Reality.
• Offer resources that attract student motivation.
•  Encourage the cooperative work of students through online platforms.
• Plan, design and create an interactive virtual platform.Create educational material for online
  environments.
• Create a virtual campus that allows students to be protagonists of the learning process