MOVILIDAD 2. CURSO: USIN TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM. SPLIT. CROATIA.

 

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TEACHER TRAINING COURSES IN SPLIT, CROATIA

 

Using Technology in the Classroom December 4th – 10th 2021

 

Teslina 16a, 21000 Split, Croatia

 

SATURDAY 4/12/2021                                                                                    

Presenting participating schools and organisations

The   session   started   with   a   presentation   of   the   course   organisation   and some recommendations about our stay in Croatia.

 

After that, each participant showed a presentation about their school, the city they live and about themselves.

Finally, we finish sharing a typical Croatian meal.

SUNDAY 5/12/2021                                                                                   

 SuperSimple apps for the classroom and digital education tools (Marija Krstinić)

•              learningapps.org: Free web page to use activities or create them.

•              QR Codes (QR code monkey app): Hide qr codes in the classroom (station

learning). Students must find de qr code, scan it, solve the problem and fill in the worksheet. Then, come to the teacher for correction and find the next station (qr code).

•              www.plickers.com: Web page similar to kahoot but students don’t need the mobile

phone, just a paper with a printed code. You can use a gif, audio, image, …

◦    Get plickers cards: To download the codes.

◦    Create the class and add the students.

◦    Assign the codes to the students.

◦    Create the questions.

◦    The teacher control the test, answers, scores, etc with the mobile phone (plickers app).

 

What makes a good teacher great (Dario Čaljkušić)

Games without computers:

•              Password: One student close the eyes, the teacher write a word in the blackboard. The class give clues (just one word) to the student to guess the word.

•              Dictionary dissection: Write in the black board one word unknown for the students and ask them to write a description. Share the definitions and, finally, show them

the answer.

•              Categories: Write different noun categories (Country, capital, food, brand, colour,

job, animal for example) and tell the students one letter. They try to find one word for each category beginning with the letter given.

•              Twenty objects: Put 20 different objects in a table, show them a few seconds to the

students and cover them. Ask the students to remember as much objects as they can.

•              Active floor: Projector and carpet to play moving.

MONDAY 6/12/2021                                                                                   

Fun with new technologies (Ana Mladina Puljak)

•              Goosechase app: To prepare challenges (missions) to the students. They need the

mobile phone to play the missions. They send the teacher a text, a video or a photo with the answer. You need to register. Prepare the missions with the computer and play with the mobile phone.

•              JeopardyLabs: Build a table with different categories in the columns and the

questions in the rows in order of difficulty.

 

Digital tools for digital natives (Marijana Vrdoljak)

The teacher shows us a presentation about digital natives/immigrants, e-learning, … and then we discuss about that topic.

Flipped classroom (Marijana Vrdoljak) (Nearpod code: X9IUC)

In this session we discuss about flipped classroom (School work at home and home work at school): methodology, models, advantages and disadvantages. Review of a lesson plan using flipped classroom methodology.

TUESDAY 7/12/2021                                                                                   

Educational Tools for any Learner (Marijana Vrdoljak)

In this session we are learning how to use online tool Nearpod. It is free and it’s connected to Google, youtube, drive, dropbox, office365, etc. You can create presentations with lots of resources (images, videos, record yourself,…). Also, you can create games and activities.

We talk about other tools like Canva (for presentations) or Adobe Spark (for posters).

 

 

Social Media in the Classroom (Marijana Vrdoljak) (Nearpod code: JPCQ4)

We start the lesson answering a quiz made with quizizz.com. Then the teacher shows us a presentation about social networks. She talk about Edmodo, a social network for teachers and teaching. You need permission from parents to use it. We saw examples of using social networks in the class.

6 Fun Social Media Projects for the Online Classroom: https://livetilesglobal.com/6-fun- social-media-projects-assign-classroom/

 

Sharing best classroom practices (Ana Mladina Puljak)

In this session we share different kind of activities we do with our students. The most interesting tools presented are:

•              Baamboozle

•              Blooket

•              Mentimeter

•              Padlet

•              Wordwall

WEDNESDAY 8/12/2021                                                                                   

Free day.

THURSDAY 9/12/2021                                                                                   

Video making - Project based learning (Ana Mladina Puljak)

We are going to use Vita app to create a video about Split to show our colleagues in school. We are going to work in groups of 3 people. At the end, we show our productions to the other colleagues in the course.

Being a 21st century teacher – Lecture and workshop

We review the last 100 years about improvements in technology, changes in classrooms, etc.

 

The challenges teachers face nowadays are, mainly, using new technologies, keeping students motivated and to adapt to the different student levels in class. We have kids who come to school and never learn how to focus.

 

We need to develop in students the 4C’s soft-skills (Communication, critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration, creativity and innovation). They can be developed, but not measurable.

 

FRIDAY 10/12/2021                                                                                  

 

 

Relax and get creative: Mindfulness makes happy students (Dario Čaljkušić)

The teacher shows us different activities that we can do with our students to keep them awake and focus on lessons.

Mindfulness is a scientific technique to calm down teachers and students stress. It reduces early school leaving.

Course revision, evaluation and Certificates (Ana Mladina Puljak)