Redesign Learning Without Exhausting Educators with Innovative Technology Enhanced Pedagogies!
Instructors
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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”.
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Kyriakos ChristodoulouHead of R&D and InnovationKyriakos Christodoulou is the Research and Development Innovation Director at Digipro Education Limited, a leading provider of innovative pedagogical solutions in the EdTech industry. He has over 15 years of experience in the field of computer science, specializing in ethical pedagogy, while also holding the position of Director of R&D and Innovation of a global computer science curriculum at FUNecole Education Limited.
He previously worked as a Computer Science Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Duy Tan. Under Kyriakos’ leadership as a Robotics instructor, his students received 1st prize in primary age ROBOTEX contest. Kyriakos holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham, and an MSc in Technology Innovation Management from SPRU, University of Sussex.
As a co-founder of a non-profit organisation the ‘ECO Social Movement’, he is committed to support and organise social and ecological volunteering projects. In his spare time Kyriakos enjoys playing the piano and rock-climbing excursions.
“Moving to online learning was scary!” At the outbreak of the pandemic many educators thought it was never going to work. Educators globally are exhausted by what they had to face and what they are still facing in their classrooms. Students, too, found it challenging to adapt to virtual instruction.
Schools in Cyprus need to join the learning revolution that is sweeping the globe by responding to this crisis and exploiting on the original and creative ideas coming from all corners of the world. Schools need to become inclusive collaborate openly and share recourses and experiences with local and global schools.
This expert seminar aims to provide Middle and High school principals/managers, educational curriculum consultants with the latest state of the art tools, platforms and digital agile pedagogies to redesign class instruction that is inspiring to teachers. The value of this innovative seminar is that it offers teachers with concrete disruptive methodologies to rethink their lesson designs from the ground up and as they become more confident in their ability to technologies seize the opportunity to take different non exhausting -for them- approaches to teaching and learning.
This expert seminar aims to provide Middle and High school principals/managers, educational curriculum consultants with the latest state of the art tools, platforms and digital agile pedagogies to redesign class instruction that is inspiring to teachers – “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” by William Arthur Ward author, educator, motivational speaker – and engaging to students.
The value of this innovative seminar is that it offers teachers with concrete disruptive methodologies to rethink their lesson designs from the ground up and as they become more confident in their ability to technologies seize the opportunity to take different non exhausting – for them- approaches to teaching and learning.
The objectives of the seminar are:
– Use digital pedagogies to redesign innovative learning environments that redefine the learning quality.
– Identify new models that lead to innovation in education.
– Inspire and engage the 21st century teachers and learners.
– Evaluate the learning revolution inflicted by COVID 19 and plan ways to strengthen education beyond the post COVID era.
– Analyse the learning revolution that is sweeping the globe by responding to this crisis and exploiting on the original and creative ideas coming from all corners of the world.
– Differentiate between choices and decisions schools need to make to redefine the futures of education, impact and reshape the futures of young learners.
– Motivate teacher collaboration n wider school networks in Cyprus and oversees.
– Use Scientific Literacy within the school curricula.
– Document and evaluate the massive shift away from learning and teaching in traditional settings with physical interactions.
– Describe and challenge the commitment to strengthen education as a common good.
Recent Program Participants
Hourly Schedule
Day 1
- 07:45 - 10:15
- How Does COVID-19 Affected the Global Education?
- • The massive shift to digital Learning. <br/>• The remarkable innovation in the responses of educators to the COVID-19 crisis. <br/>• The weaknesses and vulnerabilities of eLearning.
- 10:15 - 10:30
- Coffee Break
- 10:30 - 13:00
- The UNESCO’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- • How can schools implement a strong commitment to strengthen education as a common good? <br/>• How can schools expand the right to education so that it addresses the importance of connectivity.
Day 2
- 07:45 - 09:15
- Recapitulation of the first day - How to best move forward form the disruption caused by the Pandemic?
- • The COVID 19 pandemic and its aftermath effects on education. <br/>• How might classrooms be redesigned to meet students' needs? <br/>• How might we redesign our pedagogical and instructional approaches.
- 09:15 - 09:30
- Coffee Break
- 09:30 - 11:00
- Boosting and Facilitating Teacher Collaboration
- • How can we develop Schools Networks in Cyprus and Oversees? <br/>• How can we exploit on the capacity to initiate, experiment and innovate -that has been unleashed during the COVID 19 pandemic-?
- 11:00 - 11:15
- Coffee Break
- 11:15 - 13:15
- What does the COVID 19 Crises revealed?
- • Difficulties of dealing with unexpected situations in centralized bureaucracies. <br/>• The real capacity for response and innovation lies in the initiative of educators.
Day 3
- 08:00 - 10:00
- Education Should Embrace the Post COCID-19 Exceptional Opportunity to Transform the World.
- • Reimagine the educational institutions and learning environments. <br/>• Revisit the purposes of education. <br/>• Why lifelong learning has become imperative?
- 10:00 - 10:15
- Coffee Break
- 10:15 - 11:15
- Innovative Pedagogy
- 1. Leveraging Learning Technologies: Make the best use of available platforms to augment instruction. <br/>2. Flexible Instructional Practices: Offer creative, flexible, thoughtfully designed instruction.
- 11:15 - 12:15
- Projects
- Present group projects that contain learning experiences beyond expectations driven by authentic passion and need. <br/>Participants will be expected to post their projects on the dedicated padlet wall.
Terms and Conditions
The above seminar is fully subsidized by HRDA on the condition that the following criteria is stringently adhered to:
1. Cameras and microphones must be open for the duration of the seminar.
2. Participation for the whole seminar must exceed 75%.
3. 1 device per person must be used.
4. You must ensure you check in punctually at the beginning of the seminar and check out at the end of each day.
5. You are obligated to participate in the follow up onsite 4 Hour visit and you must ensure you check in and check out promptly.
In the event the criteria is not fulfilled satisfactorily and you are rejected by HRDA, please note that you as an individual or your company will be liable to pay the participation fee of €1800.
Finally, please see our cancellation 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 individual or company will be invoiced the full amount per participant.
– Substitutions can be accepted up to 2 working days prior to the seminar without penalties.