Reimagining the 21st Century Learning Habitat through the Effective Integration of Mobile Technology at Middle & High Schools
Instructors
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Chryso ChristodoulouCEO - FounderMrs. Chryso Christodoulou is the founder of FUNecole® Research Institute and the co-founder of Digipro Education Limited. Her academic background is in Computer Science and Education. She is the designer and author of the FUNecole® for Cambridge ICT Starters Initial Steps endorsed by University of Cambridge International Examinations and recognized best practice educational approach by the European Commission. Mrs. Christodoulou is an external educational expert for the Institute of Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) on various educational research projects. She is a program committee member for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Computer society. Mrs. Christodoulou participates as keynote speaker and panelist at numerous conferences, seminars and workshops around the world. Mrs. Christodoulou´s work has been published in scholarly and policy publications, such as IEEE Xplore and the European Parliament Magazine. She is a recognized as an entrepreneurship expert by OECD and is one of 350 European Ambassadors of Entrepreneurship.
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Nina JacksonIndependent Thinker, Author, Associate Director ITLWorldwide Mental Health Ambassador & creator of Mind Medicine approachNina Jackson is the director of Teach Learn Create that offers teacher professional development courses in UK and the world. The courses focus to develop teachers to purposeful and effectively use technology and particularly mobile devices in the classroom.
Nina is a new generation of innovative teachers and the the first woman to join Independent Thinking Ltd with Ian Gilbert in 1999. Nina inspires and motivates teachers to “be the best that they can be” and uses the Independent Thinking’s motto of ‘Do things no one does or do things everyone does in a way no one does’, as her philosophy for educational change. With this heritage of superb teaching and learning, an associate director of the internationally acclaimed Independent Thinking and best-selling author;Nina Jackson is an educational force to be reckoned with.
Nina has been a lead contributor in a BBC documentary called Kids Behaving Badly where her skills for engaging and inspiring disaffected learners were hailed as “pure magic”.
Recent Participants
The programme includes:
- Two full-days seminar at a luxurious venue.
- Half a day consulting session for each participating company.
- An extensive report for each participating company formulated to their needs. The report will include recommendations and suggestions for further consideration by the management.
- Full access to a seminar blog containing all presentations and further additional support materials and resources for each seminar participant.
- Full lunch and three coffee breaks for the two-days seminar for each seminar participant.
- No VAT is imposed to Digipro Executive Management Seminars. Please contact us for clarifications.
Much of what is known on 21st century skills and education, describes a situation where a broader range of skills is needed to complement the basic literacy, numeracy and scientific skills that are currently taught in our schools. There is real need to use digital technology to develop innovative skills and competences that will enable graduates of schools and universities in Cyprus to deal with an emerging economic, environmental, technological, political and social challenges of the current century.
There is a need to advance teaching approaches, assessment strategies and reporting or grading systems. There is a need to accommodate new innovative skills and competences within an existing educational structure and curriculum. Schools need to Reimagine Learning Habitat with effective integration of Mobile Tech in order to develop higher order level skills and validate appropriate pedagogy’s, curriculum assessment and evaluation strategies and other instructional support.
Furthemore, Cyprus belongs to a global community and we need to develop our students so that they are equipped with the skills, knowledge, creativity and digital competencies to be able to survive in this world of change. The foundation for this change is to begin equipping students with the tools they need regardless of their learning and living differences. The key is to diffentiate our instruction and use the most appropriate digital devices that will enable us to cater for all students including those students with special needs and the Gifted and Talented. Using tablets and iPads from middle to high school years becomes a vital part of our instruction.
Tablets and iPads make learning more personalized and focused for each student. For example, we all learn differently and with a few taps here and there each student can have a customizable iPad with material, apps and personalized learning tools to meet their needs, regardless of their learning and living differences. 3D and 4D immersive books and videos that bring learning to life. Augmented and Virtual Reality applications empower students to see beyond what their imagination may conjure. Tactile interaction where a student can have a learning relationship between their own thinking brain and the digital brain – the iPad. It’s an inclusive, differentiated tool that will surpass all other digital devices and empower Cyprus students to be equipped with learning skills and knowledge that will help them be ready for any future global educational change.
Conclusion: Tablets and iPads for students from Middle to High School Years in Cyprus is the ultimate learning tool for themselves as well as teachers. Preparation and skillful mastery for learning from Middle school years is crucial aspect of future learning. No student should be left behind. All Cypriot students need to be prepared and ready for change!
This seminar will offer valuable insight to owners and Middle and High school principals/managers, educational curriculum consultants and master trainers of private middle and high schools and institutes approved by Ministry of Education and Culture. All above schools need to transform and develop their educational practices that will lead students towards the development of the new 21st century literacies.
By the end of this workshop participants will be in a position to:
- Integrate the pedagogical aspect of learning with tablets and iPads into the Middle and High School Years Curriculum
- Demonstrate to learners how a device can be easily accessible for their learning needs, regardless of their differences.
- Use the Mobile Tech such as tablets and iPads to develop basic Literacy, Numeracy, scientific and Engineering skills for learning
- Understand the importance of DigiPlay for metacognition and be able to use the device for personalized learning
- Know how to set up and personalize the iPad for different students whether they have special needs or are gifted and talented.
- Develop a learning relationship between the Thinking Brain and the Digital Brain
- Choose appropriate learning and teaching apps for the curriculum and individual, independent learning
- Prepare students for change using a unique device that will replace the traditional school book.
- Implement and devise lessons that are differentiated and inclusive.
- Use visualization as a engagement tool for indoor and outdoor learning with tablets and iPads.
- Equip learners to be independent with their learning and share learning journeys through collaboration, communication and creativity.
DAY one
07:00 – 07:30 / Arrival & Registration
07:30 – 09:30 / 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
- Use high tech devices to challenge and engage creativity and innovation in the classroom
- Embrace the diversity of devices and applications
- Getting to grips with the devices and Apps to revolutionize teaching and learning for all in Middle & Secondary Schools
- Case study: The growing importance of developing expert thinking, collaboration, team skills, creativity, character and civic skills.
09:30 – 09:45 / Coffee break with biscuits and snacks
09:45 – 12:15 / From Low Tech Classroom to High-Tech Hub: Best Uses Of An iPad
- What can an iPad do for teachers and learners of the Middle and High school?
- How and where do we start to integrate iPads?
- Getting to grips with all types of devices: Android, Windows, IOS
- Apps to revolutionize teaching and learning
- The best apps for creating in the STREAMS (Science, Technology, Reading, Arts, Mathematics and Social Sciences) classroom
- Designing innovative learning spaces that foster Innovative learning practices
- Case study: Ways that educational leaders, and schools conceptualize, understand, design and integrate disciplines thus supporting students’ deep learning engagement
12:15 – 13:00 / Lunch break
13:00 – 14:00 / Adding Pace and Variety
- Transforming teaching with tablets and applications.
- Learning collaboratively and globally.
- Following students’ learning journeys by identifying individual learning needs and selecting appropriate applications that enhance personalized learning.
Case study: A practical guide to creating innovative integrated learning experiences for the Middle and High school years.
14:00 – 15:00 / Rebooting For Change: Is More Technology The Answer?
- Thinking beyond digital tools
- Leveraging iPads and tablets as innovation hubs
- Identifying the right tools to promote acquisition of goals
- Choosing Apps by Design for STREAMS level of integration
- Personalizing tablets and iPads for special needs and for the gifted talented learners
- Extending learning in the house and getting parents more involved
- Developing your own lesson plans using tablets and iPads, integrating all aspects as these are described above
15:00 – 15:15 / Coffee break with biscuits and snacks
15:15 – 15:45 / Let’s Play, Record, Show And Share
- Using different apps for different learning purposes.
- Creating and developing apps mashing approaches.
- Showcasing Window tablet and iPad creations together.
DAY Two
7:00 – 7:30 / Arrival
7:30 – 8:00 / Recapitulation of first day
8:00 – 09:30 / Let’s Get Physical! Focusing in Activities and Learning Achievements
- The plug-and-play approach
- Adopting new methods amd using them to add value to learning
- The learning potential of e-books
- Tips for successful e-book implementation
- Bringing learning to life with 3D and 4D immersive books and videos
- Empowering students with Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications. Showcase of various such tools for supporting scientific, mathematical engineering literacies.
Case study: Creating new realities in our classrooms.
- Putting it all together: Ways of preparing students to use tablets and iPads as unique devices to replace traditional school books and resources
- Working with amazing visualizations
- Creating effective and challenging learning applications.
09:30 – 09:45 / Coffee break with biscuits and snacks
09:45 – 12:15 / Let’s Make It Work, Count And Review
- Let’s make it work: implementing lessons that are differentiated and inclusive
- Mobile technology for creativity and shared learning experiences
- Choosing the right device and the importance of digital leaders in your education technology learning vision
- Counting and reviewing learning exercises and learning outcomes.
12:15 – 13:00 / Lunch break at Hotel’s Restaurant
13:00 – 13:30
Case study: The right apps-used in the right way- can enhance the classroom learning environment
- Creating Genius areas in every class, school and community
- Enhancing and sustaining communication, collaboration and creativity
13:30 – 15:00 / Next Steps
- Planning for an all inclusive curriculum for using tablets and iPads
- Use tools and apps to develop their personal for assessment, monitoring, recording and reporting. Technology monitors learning and learning outcomes on a continuous basis. Internet is used as a repository of ideas, materials, records, interpretive frameworks, methods of communicating to students, teachers, parent and schools
- Questions, queries and where to go next.
15:00 – 15:15 / Coffee break with biscuits and snacks
15:15 – 15:45 / The future of learning in safe hands – teachers, parents and learners from Middle to High School levels.
Participants will present their innovative teaching activities using various apps and will share their learning during the workshop.
Conclusion
Participants will be encouraged to share with their colleagues the areas of improvements identified in class and the action plan developed in class and identify priorities to be covered by the training. The areas to be considered in order to meet the training objectives identified above are: the school’s strategic segments, priorities and how each segment is serviced, how the school’s value proposition is delivered and possible gaps, areas where customer expectations are not met, areas where customers are over-served, focused propositions to specific segments.
Two Hours by Nina Jackson:
The scope for school improvement can be identified:
Evaluating ideas about improving the customer service delivery and discussing the details of implementation
- Prioritise ideas and learning strategies.
- Think through how to put these ideas into action learning.
- Establish implementation requirements.
Four hours by Chryso Christodoulou:
Creating different propositions for different segments by incorporating different levels of service
- Recognising different segment needs and the value to the school.
- Creating different levels of service to balance value
- Thinking through the operationalization.
Identifying service areas which do not add value and discussing ways to de-emphasize.
- Develop strategies on how to use appropriate apps and how the can be developed into the curriculum for all aspects of learning.
- Review features of the proposition and the value perceived by the customer – think ways to reduce of eliminating and evaluate the learning impact.
One comprehensive report will be jointly prepared by both consultants to be presented to each participating school.
SUBSIDY, ATTENDANCE, AND CANCELLATION POLICY
HRDA Subsidy and Seminar Attendance
- A company’s participant is eligible for a subsidy when their Social Insurance and Industrial Training contributions have been settled in full by the time of registration/seminar. In case of ineligibility/disqualification, the company will be invoiced the full amount per participant.
- A company’s participant is eligible for a subsidy if he/she completes an obligatory attendance of 75% or more (both during seminar and company visit). In case of failure to complete the attendance, the company will be invoiced the full amount, per participant.
Cancellation and Substitution Policy
- Cancellations can be accepted up to 5 working days prior to the seminar without penalties. For any cancellations received after the deadline (or no-shows), the company will be invoiced the full amount per participant.
- Substitutions can be accepted any time prior to the seminar without penalties.
- Τhroughout the seminar participants must have their camera and microphone open, for better communication and as defined by the specifications of HRDA otherwise participants will not be approved by HRDA.