PLAY AND LEARN – DIGITAL EDUCATION FOR 21ST CENTURY

MAIN OBJECTIVES:

The main aim of the course is to foster excellence in education by empowering educational staff to integrate ICT tools into teaching. This is a practical course for teachers who would like to use ICT in classroom and apply the acquired skills in creating ICT teaching resources.

Participants will gain knowledge in effective use of various ICT tools for creating qiuzzes, picture books, posters, tools for successful classroom management, as well as tools for engaging student’s motivation through „Escape room“ method.

OBJECTIVES:

• Get an overview of the newest trends of using ICT in education
• Learn how to create engaging and multimedia content
• Learn how to create various online qiuzzes using simple, free and intuitive ICT tools
• Get to know various ICT tools for classroom management and real- time supervision
• Learn the basic concepts of “Escape room” method and how to create a lesson using this method
• Learn how to create a website or blog
• Exchange best practices and share knowledge with participants
• Help teachers to design and implement motivating activities for their students using ICT
• Help teachers to develop their communication skills in English

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

DAY 1 SUNDAY

– Participants arrival
– Meeting in a hotel
– Practical information about the city, currency, etc.
– Walk through city center
– Dinner in one of Vukovar’s restaurants

DAY 2 MONDAY

– Course introduction
– Competence evaluation
– Participants introduction (short presentations about participants schools and cities)
– Introduction to free online tools for making quizzes (Quizizz, Wordwall, LearningApps.org, Plickers…)
– Practical work – making one’s own quizzes (participants try every tool)
– Guided visit to Danube’s beaches (Vukovarska Ada “The Island of Vukovar”)

DAY 3 TUESDAY

– Visit to the Vučedol Culture Museum or the Vukovar Municipal Museum located in Eltz Manor
– Introduction of tools for making books, comics, picture books and posters (Storyjumper, Book Creator, Pixton, Storybird, Canva)
– Practical work – making one’s own books, comics, picture books and posters (participants try every tool)
– Guided visit to the city of Ilok and dinner near the river Danube, visit to Ilok’s famous wine cellar “Stari Podrum” (Old Wine Cellar) OPTIONAL

DAY 4 WEDNESDAY

– Introduction of ICT tools for classroom management, supervision and for engaging students (Nearpod, Google Classroom, Classcraft, Socrative, ClassDoJo, Vejon, Edmodo)
– Practical work – working in presented ICT tools

DAY 5 THURSDAY

– Introduction of what is “Escape room” method to engage student’s motivation through gamification
– Introduction of free online tools for creating Escape room game ( Genially, QR code, Deck toys, Flipity, Snotes..)
– Practical work – presenting and working in tools for making escape room game

DAY 6 FRIDAY

– Presenting ICT tool for making free web pages (Google Sites, Weebly, Neocities, Simplesite)
– Practical work – participants put their collection of finished works in online tools (quizzes, books, comic books etc.) on their web page

– Certificates ceremony

– Writing reviews

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