Reimagining the 21st Century Learning Habitat through the Effective Integration of Mobile Technology at Middle & High Schools Completed

Target Audience

This seminar will offer valuable insight to owners, principals/managers, educational curriculum consultants and trainers in Middle and High schools, as well as private institutes approved by the Ministry of Education and Culture. All these schools need to transform and develop their educational practices in order to help students develop the 21^st century skills.

Program Objectives

By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Integrate the use of tablets and iPads in the Middle and High School curriculums
• Use mobile technology, such as tablets and iPads, to enhance literacy, numeracy, scientific and engineering skills
• Understand the importance of DigiPlay in metacognition and use the device for personalized learning
• Know how to set up and personalize tablets and iPads for different students with special needs or talents
• Develop a learning relationship between the Thinking Brain and the Digital Brain
• Prepare students for change using unique devices that will replace the traditional school book.

Program Outline

Training Methodology

The workshop methodology will aim to support school, with tools that are practical and innovative in order to expand their understanding of using tablets and iPads for teaching and learning from Middle to High School years. Strategies to use appropriate apps and how they can be developed into the curriculum for all aspects of learning. Participants will have the opportunity to create teaching activities using various apps and be able to share their learning and showcase during the workshop.

Multi-media tools including Haiku Deck, Keynote and Power Point will be integrated as well as other mutli-media tools and the effective and applicable use of social media fin order to develop Professional Learning Networks for collaboration, communication and creativity. Participants will be asked to bring their own tablet and/or iPads to the seminar and will be encouraged to interact with other participants.

Furthermore, 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.

Workshop participants will be guided in a very concise and condensed way, both on the strategic side as 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 and in electronic form on a CD and available on line at www.digipro.com.cy and the class blog

Post Program Activities

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 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 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.