ICT - heart and soul …

Mr Angel Gabilondo Pujol, Minister of Education (opening address), 16 March 2010

„ICT has to be in the HEART and SOUL of every education institution“

…and in the heart and soul of every teacher!

Report ICT clusterReport: “Key Lessons Learned by the ICT cluster”

You will find four main themes with– Main messages– Bottlenecks and challenges– Scope– Key lessons learned

and two crosscutting topics

The electronic version is available at: http://www.kslll.netFor printed copies (free of charge) you can contact:

godelieve.van-den-brande@ec.europa.eu

key recommendations - ICT cluster

Theme 1: Leadership and institutional change for a renewed

strategy on learning

• Develop open and inclusive policies enhancing full integration of ICT in education and training in Europe

• The policies on ‘ICT for learning’ should be based on long-term educational objectives and become an integral part of the core educational agenda‘

• Drop the “e” in e-learning – it is about learning in a digital and networked society

• Bring the work on e-learning closer to the work of innovation in education and training

• ………

key recommendations - ICT cluster

Theme 2: Digital competences and new transversal

skills as core life and employability skills

• ICT for ALL (e-Inclusion) Make sure digital competences and new transversal skills are acquired by all (teachers are invited …),also including the most vulnerable and socially excluded people in society through learning settings which are the most effective (formal or informal)………

key recommendations - ICT cluster

Theme 3: Towards a new learning paradigm orthe use of digital media and individualisation

of learning– the learner at the centre

Individualisation of learning• Allow more learner-centred approaches

key recommendations - ICT cluster

Theme 4: Professional development – the teacher as

learner at the centre Teacher education and training – a change

of mindset

• Adapt teacher education and training as to embrace more open and flexible learning environments …

key recommendations - ICT cluster

crosscutting topic 1Research on learning in a digital society

• Research and studies need to look for holistic approaches and solutions and the effective use of ICT and its impact on learning processes, outcomes and standards

key recommendations - ICT cluster

crosscutting topic 2: Envisioning the future of learning in a digital

society

• A need for envisioning future learning that is more efficient, equitable, innovative and meaningful than it ever was in the past …

Lessons learned- ICT clusterTheme 2: • Digital competences as core life and employability skills – mismatch

between real life and educational systems

Main messages• ICT must be a continuous part of the curriculum from early childhood• Support research on the impact of ICT for learning• Education must act to close new digital gaps and react (cyber bullying etc.)• Education must react to IT job market needs ….. (really?)• “The new social computing networks illustrate the new ways of learning

amongst youngsters and in future working life”. Austria: Project “Young eLSA” (social network for kids till 13 years old) Austria: Ministry of education started the first social networking project with

educational innovators (all levels: students, teachers, university, .., ministry)

Lessons learned- ICT clusterTheme 3: The use of digital media and individualisation of learning– the learner at

the centre

Main messages

• The use of ICT as an obligatory teaching and learning aid can be integrated into the curricula for almost every subject.

• In teacher education and in-service-training teachers have to become familiarized with a broad variety of teaching methods and especially learning processes which gain from embedding digital media.

• Individualised learning encourages teachers/trainers and learners to collaborate. Individualised learning allows learners to take their own experiences into the learning processes (instead of externally defined).

• ICT-based learning can benefit from the immense pool of content to be found on the Internet …

Intensive usage of learning plattforms (eLSA-project since 2002)

Lessons learned- ICT clusterTheme 4: Teacher education and training – a change of mindset

Main messages• Turn digital competences into a key priority in teacher education &

training.• Learn ‘critical’ and ‘quality’ use of digital tools within context.• Encourage innovative learning approaches.

Lessons learned - ICT clusterTheme 4: Teacher education and training – a change of mindsetKey lessons learned

• First the basic ICT skills…and then critical and creative use of ICTAn example: European Pedagogical ICT Licence – EPICT

• Listen more carefully to the needs of the teachers and trainers (eBuddy, EPICT)

• Teach the teachers in a more innovative way cooperative online seminars

• Next to formal in-service and continuous teacher training, the most important is informal learning:

It is the way our kids learn – watch them and see the behaviour of the “digital natives”.

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eCoaching - eBuddy

http://ecoaching.schule.at/ebuddy.htm

Lessons learned - ICT clusterTheme 4: Teacher education and training – a change of mindset

EPICT in Austria

• Austria chose to introduce a teacher-training programme in cooperation with EPICT, the Danish model for distant in-service training. As the label EPICT suggests, this training focuses entirely on pedagogical and didactic questions.

• For a year on average, teachers participating in an EPICT course set a few hours per week apart to work together with two or three colleagues on learning materials provided by the EPICT office, directly at their schools, at their workplaces. In groups, teachers study and discuss the materials for every module and then design a learning sequence. In contrast to the Danish model, Austrian teachers additionally have to try out their planning in class and include a reflection about the lesson(s) in their assignment report.

• EPICT ensures a lasting effect on teacher and school development by placing the learning directly into the environment of the participants. Teachers do not attend seminars far away from the school but meet and discuss, try out and reflect amongst their colleagues.

Lessons learned - ICT clusterTheme 4: Teacher education and training – a change of mindset

E-LISA academy – cooperative online courses in Austria

70 topics, most of them ICT-related but also with non ICT-related content (i.e. migration-challenges or gender etc.)

A group of 6-12 teacher and a moderator work online during a period of 1 to 4 weeks …

The „BIG“ picture …Quelle: http://www.sxc.hu

Quelle: http://www.sxc.hu

Quelle: www.epict.at

Computer, mobile handhelds and internet is going to enrich and change education and classroom as much did (hand)writing and books in the past.

Not using computer and internet in the 21st century would be

as dramatic as not using books in the past.

Quelle: http://www.sxc.hu

Austrian Strategy - FutureLearningNetbooks in Education

New Learning

eLearning/ICT-strategy(time before social computing)

Ministry of education, Vienna (03/2007)

Teacher-Workplace in schools …

Certificated eLearning school eLSA-project

Summer 2009 INTEL Classmate

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Austrian experiences

• eLC-Network (eLearning Cluster)– Cluster of about 120 schools (higher

secondary education and vocational)– 8 common goals (since 2002)– Notebook-classes– Now: partnership-agreement to double the

number of schools

Community AspectseLearning Schools in Austria (220 schools)

project eLSA for students 10 – 14 (~100)project eLC for students 15 – 18/19 (~120)

Clear structuresClear targets;Seed money

CommunityMeeting in springand autumn

(last 20 -22.4.09Melk, NÖ)

Austrian experiences• eLSA-Network

– Cluster of more than 100 schools (lower secondary education and primary schools)

– 8 common goals (since 2002)– Certification process after a time of 4-5 years

eLSA-advanced Network(11 certified eLSA-schools „WEB 2.0 schools“)Social network for the eLSA-advanced teacher, opened

for the eLSA- and eLC-NETWORK „all about eLearning“; fokus-groups with responsibility for a topic

Certificated eLearning school eLSA-project

Austrian experiences - TALIS

OECD: Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2008

Additional Survey in Austria: • „Usage of ICT in schools“• 5000 (responses from „normal schools“)

and 500 (responses from eLSA-schools)

The „BIG“ picture: teachers…

The „BIG“ picture: principals …

Austrian experiences

• ICT in primary education– Some PCs (internet connected) in every classroom– Fully integrated in daily learning sessionsSince autumn 2008– One OLPC-Class (youTube Video „Graz+OLPC“)– 4 schools with netbooks (1:1-challenge); supported by

pedagogical universities– Social network (NING) for the teachers– Once a year: an open space conference (time to

discuss and disseminate and …

OLPC-One Laptop per Child

Primary School, Graz, Styria(1st Class)Support: pedagogical University

and Austrian OLPC GroupVideo: YouTube (OLPC, Graz)

Netbook-Initiative: ICT-Integration from the beginning

Europaschule Linz

Motivation

Motivation - Marketing

Motivation - – every thing clear?

Motivation – every thing clear!!!

Motivation – don´t be angry

Motivation – raise your head

Motivation – are you sure???

Motivation – empower yourself!

Motivation – teaching style!

Motivation – wide horizont!

Motivation – old and new at the same place!

2005 start of eduMoodle-ProjectMessage:

„If you WILL, you CAN“YES, WE CAN

• WE CAN DO ITIT educational aspects of virtual spaces

• WE CAN DO IT TOGETHER

Motivation – Marketing ?

Even more questions than answers?

• Better Marketing!

We have to sell our visions!Do I/we (who is this person/group) have visions?

• More incentives for the teacher, headmaster, etc.?• New form of assessments?• (e)Portfolios additional to formal tests or …?• Future of schoolbooks?• Gamebased education?• Definition of digital competences/skills (due to moving targets …); who is

able to define …?• ……..

Thanks for attention

Helmut StemmerMinistry of Education, Arts and Culture;

Vienna/Austria

Contact: helmut.stemmer@bmukk.gv.at

Links: http://www.epict.athttp://elsa.schule.at