Redesign Learning Without Exhausting Educators with Innovative Technology Enhanced Pedagogies!
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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Kyriakos ChristodoulouHead of R&D and InnovationKyriakos Christodoulou holds a BSc in Computer Science and a Master’s Degree in Innovation Management. He has been working in digital education projects at Digipro since 2011. He is primarily active in R&D on primary school curricula, developing partnerships with European institutions and agencies, participating in training and organising exhibitions, European seminars trainers education(Comenius and Grundtvig), online learning content authoring (Flash, HTML, Authoring tools), platform /web front-end design and development (HTML/CSS), education requirements analysis and design as well as alpha and beta testing.
Education May Never Be the Same After the COVID-19 Pandemic. The pandemic fostered significant growth among online learning communities. Following this pandemic school education changed profoundly. The European Commission calls for the mobilization and participation of all in shaping the futures of education. There are no acceptable ready-made solutions, technological or otherwise in Education, and it is evident that schools cannot return to the world as it was before this pandemic or even the recent outbreak of the Ukrainian war. At the moment, education faces choices and decisions that will redefine the futures of education. COVID-19 radically reshaped our world and the educational infrastructures globally. Education stakeholders cannot afford to passively sit back. Now is the time for making intelligent decisions and take collective actions for the sake of education, teachers and students.
This expert educator professional development seminar aims to provide Middle and High school principals/managers, educational curriculum consultants with the latest state of the art tools, platforms and educational pedagogies to enable the development of the following types of
knowledge, skills and attitude-related objectives. Precedence will be given to those institutions that approved by HRDA or the Ministry of Education and Culture.
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.
• Develop and adopt fully the new “hybrid” model and be ready to use technologies where and if the add value to teaching and learning.
Recent Program Participants
Hourly Schedule
Day 1
- 07:45 - 09:15
- How to best move forward form the disruption caused by the Pandemic?
- • The COVID 19 pandemic and its aftermath effects on education.
• How might classrooms be redesigned to meet students' needs?
• How might we redesign our pedagogical and instructional approaches around the needs and desires and new realities of the Post COVID era?
• How can we redesign our Middle and High Schools to elevate student engagement and academic outcomes as well make for the academic losses that were inflicted during the COVID 19?
- 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?
• How can we exploit on the capacity to initiate, experiment and innovate -that has been unleashed during the COVID 19 pandemic-?
• How can we maintain teacher participation and collaboration in the learning process?
- 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 • The real capacity for response and innovation lies in the initiative of educators who, together with parents and communities, have in many cases found ingenious and contextualized solution.
Day 2
- 08:00 - 10:00
- Education Should Embrace the Post COCID-19 Exceptional Opportunity to Transform the World.
- • Reimagine the educational institutions and learning environments
• Revisit the purposes of education.
• Why lifelong learning has become imperative?
- 10:00 - 10:15
- Coffee Break
- 10:15 - 11:15
- Innovative Pedagogy
- • Leveraging Learning Technologies: Make the best use of available platforms to augment instruction.
• Flexible Instructional Practices: Offer creative, flexible, thoughtfully designed instruction.
• Creative Adaptations with Hybrid Technology: Adapt what we’ve learned to meet the needs of the changing learning landscape.
- 11:15 - 12:15
- Projects
- Present group projects that contain learning experiences beyond expectations driven by authentic passion and need
Day 3
- 07:45 - 10:15
- How Does COVID-19 Affected the Global Education?
- • The massive shift to digital Learning.
• The remarkable innovation in the responses of educators to the COVID-19 crisis.
• The weaknesses and vulnerabilities of eLearning.
• Why we cannot return to the school classes we had before?
• How can schools prioritize the participation of students and young people broadly in the co-construction of the necessary change during the vulnerable post COVID era?
• How can we promote student, youth and children’s participation and rights?
• How can we secure an intergenerational justice and democratic principles?
- 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?
• How can schools expand the right to education so that it addresses the importance of connectivity and access to knowledge and information?
• Why should the teaching profession be valued?
• How can teacher and school collaboration be facilitated?
• How can we encourage teacher’s autonomy and flexibility?
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% during seminar and 100% on the 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.