Managing Innovative Well-Balanced Hybrid Solutions with Learning Engineering. Junior, Middle, and High Schools

• Teachers (pre-school, primary, secondary, vocational, adult education)*
• Teacher trainers(pre-school, primary, secondary, vocational, adult education)*
• Curriculum coordinators/designers (pre-school, primary, secondary, vocational, adult education)*
• Head teachers/principals/deputy-assistant heads/academic heads/managers (pre-school, primary, secondary, vocational, adult education)*

*Any discipline/subject is welcomed including science, ICT/technology, engineering, mathematics, languages, business/finance, arts, sports and other.

By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:
Knowledge-related objectives

• Analyze how learning engineering (as an emerging discipline) seeks to design learning systems that aim to improve educational outcomes.
• List the skills taught in class and how students learned those skills.
• Recognize the neurological and cognitive impact of emotional stress and digital un-management on our brains.
• Evaluate how stress and anxiety can be good as well as very bad for learning systems

Skills-related objectives (Be able to)

• Use Learning Engineering to design effective online and hybrid lessons that support effective learning experiences.
• Organize Learning Engineering practices to establish continuous learning improvement of technology enhanced teaching and learning.
• Use Learning Engineering to draw student evidence-based information and performance development to higher thinking skills.
• Collect student performance results to design reliable, and agile data-rich learning environments.
• Demonstrate self-care plan for educators’ mental wellness as part of their personal Learning Engineering journey.
• Address the prevention and intervention methods to enhance your work and emotional wellbeing.
• Demonstrate how they (educators) can control the effects of stress and anxiety triggers on their brains and bodies.
• Master the ‘The Five Ways to Wellbeing’ as part of their work and life ethics

Attitude-related objectives

• Model introspection and methodical experimentation practices to continuously improve conventional or online teaching and learning
• Accept that they may have learned to be better educators during their transition to online, they need to learn how to be better learners.
• Evaluate neuroscience, the brain and body and the neurological chemicals that stimulate their thinking processes which affect their mental wellbeing.
• Choose the appropriate digital tools that can help them navigate their mental wellness and analogue systems.

The workshop methodology aims to support participants in how to expand their own personal skills and knowledge. This aim will be accomplished by providing robust and well-designed case studies, integrating sample educational demos, presenting and discussing real-life scenarios, performing group assignments and demonstrating web-enabled tools and recourses. There will be also presentations using PowerPoint slides, videos and various other multimedia tools.
Participants will be guided in a very concise way, both on the strategic side and on the practical classroom management side. Participants will be asked to bring their own materials into the seminar and will be encouraged to interact with the lecturers and other participants. This workshop will follow a very pragmatic approach that will enable the active participant interaction.
The seminar notes are going to be available to participants in hard copies as well as in electronic form via a dedicated online class blog.
Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own laptops

Prior to the course, participants will answer a questionnaire. All answers will be posted on a special class blog. These will include the following:

• Basic information on the social context of their school.
• Description of the prevailing culture regarding innovation and creativity.
• The ethos of the school regarding 21^st century practices and on line tools.
• The expected impact for school, students, and teachers.

Course Schedule

Day 1 – Sunday
16:30 – 18:30
Plan Your Learning Goals

• Moving beyond reproducing old practices with new tools.
• Creating a focused pedagogical vision for learning.
• Rethinking pedagogy curriculum, assessment and teaching practices.
• Establish new norms and cultivate a culture of sharing
• Effectively managing a blended learning environment with Artificial Intelligence tools and recourses.
• Embrace the diversity of devises and applications but remember that  Artificial Intelligence  isn’t going to replace the amazing, intuitive, creative human brain.
• Getting to grips with the devices and Apps to revolutionize teaching and learning for all in Middle & Secondary Schools.

Welcome dinner.