Pedagogy in the Key Role!

PAOK – ICT Network for the Tampere Region Upper Secondary Education, Finland

March 2014

Matleena Laakso PAOK NetworkBlog: www.matleenalaakso.fi paokhanke.ning.comTwitter: @matleenalaakso #paokhanke Slides: www.slideshare.net/MatleenaLaakso www.facebook.com/PAOKverkosto

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”There are many visions about the future school. In all of them is a strong emphasis on ICT to enable new ways of working, to develop sense of community and to make everyday lide easier.” (ed. Kankaanranta 2011)

PAOK – Background and Finance • PAOK is a development programme for general

and vocational upper secondary education of Tampere region

• Background: regional ICT-strategy • Coordinated by City of Tampere• Financed by EU, Centre for Economic

Development, Transport and the Environment and the schools (42)– 2009-4/2011: 882000 euro – 5/2011-2013: 603 000 euro

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Educational structure

Finnish National Board of Education www.oph.fi/english/education

PAOK Network works with teachers and management of upper secondary education

Goals of PAOK• To promote systematic implementation of ICT in

education and educational institutions

• To develop open interaction between teachers and between educational institutions

• To create and to develop student-centered, open and collaborative learning environment and culture for BETTER LEARNING

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Services of PAOKICT STRATEGY WORK• Updating regional ICT Strategy• Supporting the schools and

towns to create/update their own strategies

COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT• Education and consultation• Open learning culture seminars• Awards for Open learning

culture

PERMANENT NETWORK• PAOK: from project to

permanent network• Online course enrollment

system

NETWORKS OF TEACHERS• Thematic teams• Support from colleagues• Developers of eLearning

Courses

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• 140 online courses yearly• 1000 student enrollments yearly • Enables and supports cross-institutional online

studying – also between general and

vocational upper sedondary education

• PAOK – maintains & develops

the system– supports and encourages

teachers to use it and to create good quality online courses

Online Course Enrollment System

Award Winners for openlearning culture 2009-2013

Picture above ©Teemu LaunisOther pictures © PAOK

Support from colleagues

• The best practice of PAOK• PAOK is financing and supporting

this peer support activity– Six groups with 80 teachers– Teachers helping their colleagues to

use ICT in education

• The network of peers meets regulary– Face-to-face– Adobe Connect

Pictures above © PAOK

PAOK’s Main Tools in Social Media

• Ning paokhanke.ning.com/english 

• www.facebook.com/PAOKverkosto• Twitter: #paokhanke

• Online course enrollment system• SlideShare• Wikis• Blogs• Google (calender, Drive, alerts,..)

• Adobe Connect• Moodle• YouTube, TecherTube• etc.