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eTwinning 3 – Mainstreaming innovation in educationRoma – 27 November 2014

Marc Durando


Current education issues

• 1 in 4 students are early school leavers (40% do not find a job)

• 1 in 5 young people are unemployed versus 500 000+ ICT jobs

Education and employability

• Is the current offer of in-service training programmesmeeting the needs of (aging) teachers ?

• Retention rate of new entrants after 3 years

Teacher capacity building and supply

• Use of technology in schools (few time a months never)

• Lack of ICT infrastructure (still)

• Technology-enhanced teaching competence and students’ digital competence

Digital competence and the digital

divide

• How to mainstream successful innovation?

• How to enable large scale adoption by practitioners?

Innovations fail to scale


Current education issues

eTwinning massive success over the

last 9 years has a role to play

Nurturing new teaching and learning

practices

Innovative bottom up approach

Openness to teachers

131 000 schools

40 countries including eTwinning+

30,000 visitors/day

280 000 teachers

37 500 projects

eTwinning innovation success story

www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.orgeTwinning as a laboratory of innovation

New Professional development opportunitiesProfessional Development Workshops – Learning events

Professional development

activities for teachers

Community of teachers in Europe

Governing and animation structure

Opening to other countries – eTwinning +

Major achievements

Major achievements of eTwinning


Potential innovationadoption

Pedagogy

Technology

School vision

Education systems

Teaching processes

Curriculum

Assessment

Innovation in education – a complex process


Flipped classroomSelf directed

learningIn and out school

learning processes

IWB - 1:1 –tablets

Mobile learning

Digital Text booksOpen Educational

Resources Use of laptops & Access to internet

Learning analytics

Cloud computingBYOD - eSafety

Autonomyflexibility

curriculum

Investing in Education – Current trends – Transformation of education approaches

• Rethinking the role of teachers

• Impact of social media platforms

• Increasing focus on OER

• Evolution of on line learning

• Rise of data driven learning and assessment

• Cloud computing and tablet computing

• Educational games and mobile learning

• Personalised learning

• Integrating ICT in teacher education

• Students’ low digital competence

• Authentic learning opportunitieswww.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.org

Opening Learning Environments – opportunities to innovate for organisations

teachers and learners

Open Educational Resources –opportunities to use open

knowledge for better quality and access

Connectivity and Innovation –partnerships for infrastructures, new products and services and

interoperability

A concerted efforts to seize the opportunities of the digital

revolution

Four elements

Technology and Open Educational Resources as opportunities to reshape EU Education

Opening up education communication – Sept 2013


competences framework

organisations

Innovation for learners

•Single gateway for OER produced in Europe ?

•Curriculum mapping

• High quality OER

Open interoperability standards

infrastructure (broadband,

•European award of digital excellence

• Integrated approach and concerted efforts by all actors

eTwinning 3 – The future of learning

How eTwinning could contribute to this challenge of mainstreaming innovation?

eTwinning

eTwinning 3 – Support for future schooling challenges

Cooperationplatform

eTwinningconference

Quality label

Monitoring Community

How has eTwinning impacted teachers,classes and school practices?

RewardingeTwinning

Continuing Professional Development

Learning events - PDWs


Has eTwinning impacted teachers, classes and school practices?

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6 000 000 teachers280 000 eTwinning teachers

5% of European teachersAround 2 eTwinning teachersper school


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Towards an eTwinning school strategy

Michael Fullan – Stratosphere - 2013

Innovative education systems

Innovation challenges

Innovative teachers


Innovative schoolGlobal approach

• What is the added value of eTwinning for a school ?

• How can a school implement a whole eTwinningstrategy in its environment?

Towards a school strategy


Effective educational leadership

Innovative bottom up approach

Strategic development of theschool including in and outschool developments.

Associating all schools actors

eTwinning

eTwinning 3 – Support for future schooling challenges

Cooperationplatform

eTwinningconference

Quality label


How can eTwinning bemainstreamed?

How can eTwinning leverageits role of laboratory ofinnovation?

RewardingeTwinning




Mainstreaming versus Innovation

School actors

eTwinning

eTwinning 3 – Mainstreaming innovation

Cooperationplatform



RewardingeTwinning

eTwinningconference

Quality label


Technicalchallenges

BYOD OER

Cloud computing

Mobile learning

TabletsOn line learning

Pedagogychallenges

Flippedclassroom

Digital textbooks

Digital competences

Assessment

Teachertraining

Head of schools

Games

IT advisers

Guidance counsellors

Teachers

Role of the School Education

Gateway

Learninganalytics

Access to European cooperation policy in school education for teachers and schools

Large scale project community

Support and tools for the development of the school cooperation dimension in Erasmus+

Sharing of best practices on projects

School Education Gateway

eTwinning

• Facilitator of project cooperation

• Community of teachers

• Support for professional development of teachers – Rewarding eTwinningteacher work

eTwinning and the School Education gateway

School Education Gateway

• Sharing of best practices on projects

• Open to all schools and teachers

• Access to innovation on education

How to initiate teaching and learning practices in various

fields

How to share the results and provide inspiration for

schools and teachers


From a bonding capital network to a bridging capital platform

Balance between top down and bottom up approaches

Enabling legislation (national, local) to facilitate the new

practices

Strengthening the evidence based of new

practices

(representative pilots)

eTwinning + and national

Empowering and rewarding teachers to take

up new practices

Pre and In service training

Nurturing innovation

through networks

CoP

Four recommendations

Recommendations - mainstreaming approach


The important role of teachers

By 2030 simply knowing facts will have little value.

Education will need to equip learners to think:

• Creatively

• Independently

• Rigorously

• Collaboratively

In full awareness of themselves and their social context

www.europeanschoolnet.org - www.eun.orgEquinox Blueprint – Learning 2030

• Teachers are at the heart of the change

• Teachers as innovators and researchers – adapt to rapid changes in digital technology and on student needs

• Teachers as the orchestrator of the learning processes

• Teachers as data analyst experts (supporting new assessment approaches)

• Collaborative learning with peers - Untapped potential of current teachers communities

• Inspiring teachers

The important role of teachers


What is an efficient teacher in the 21st century?

A professional with a high judgment capacity in situation

Teaching today is about being a reflective professional teacher

(Donald Schön)

The professional teacher as one who learns from teaching

rather than one who has finished learning how to teach

Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford Graduate School of Education


•From eTwinningteachers to eTwinningclasses and eTwinningschools

•Role of school leadership

eTwinningwhole school

approach

Conclusion - Major challenges of eTwinning

•eTwinning part of the curriculum for pre service training of future teachers

•eTwinning part of career development for teachers

eTwinning fully embedded

in education systems

•Support for innovative approaches (Cloud computing, BYOD, new assessment models, learning analytics, …..)

Laboratory of innovation

•eTwinning national

•eTwinning +

•Exchange of practices beyond projects

Mainstreaming


Conclusion

Education is the most powerful

weapon which you can use to

change the world.

Nelson Mandela

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