ICT: Learning by doing

• Getting to know how to use a diversity of digital resources in order to make activities more interesting for students.
• Increasing student´s engagement and motivation.
• Taking advantage of student´s devices in and out of the classroom.
• Developing collaborative activities.
• Increasing performance and effectiveness in the preparation of the lessons.
• Taking advantage of available resources for the classroom, free and easy to use.
• Being more effective teachers, spending more time on students rather than bureaucracy.
• Offering students more support on ICT.

• DAY 1: Preparing your tools

Introducing course objectives

Create Google account

Preliminary evaluation – Initial assessment

Create groups/pairs to develop the project

Introducing Google Tools

Group discussion: Digital literacy and the use of LKT for Project- Based Learning.

Preparing the class. Using Google Tools to research and collect information. Introducing Classroom.

What is Symbaloo? Creating a virtual class in Classroom. First day conclusions.

• DAY 2: Preparing your lesson

Visual resources for creation:  Canva, BeFunky, PicCollage.

Group discussion: What do our students expect from their learning?

Audiovisual resources for planning: Using YouTube to plan our lessons.

Working with our virtual classroom. Practicing with the tools.

• DAY 3: Creating activities and resources

Class Debate: What is flipped classroom?

Audio resources for creation: Downloading audio and editing. Video resources for creation: Vibby,Kapwing.

Presentation tools: Creating a website with Google Sites.

Presentation tools for teachers and students: Pixton, PowToon, Atavist.

• DAY 4: Creating video lessons

Using infographics and QR codes for our lessons.

Class Debate: Uses of wikis in Education.

New collaborative tools: Glogster.

Group discussion: How to make parents involved in our classroom?

Class Management :  ClassDojo and Edmodo.

• DAY 5: Assess & feedback

Group Discussion: How to create effective and engaging assessment?

Classroom: Create an Assignment.

Gamification in assessment: Kahoot.

Using Google Forms. Socrative.

Final evaluation and discussion.

Hading in Training Certificates.

The methodology used in the course is ‘learning by doing’ in the form of a guided tutorial. The teacher, after briefly explaining some concepts and approaching the necessary tools, proposes a project in which students will have to create educational resources for the class.

The teacher then becomes a support, helping the students in their learning experience, at the end of the course there will be a test to assess the learning outcomes and the knowledge gained.

By completing this course, you will acquire new competencies and will be able to:

• Understand different models of instruction using ICT.
• Learn how to use collaborative tools using cloud computing tools: Google Apps
• Search and select appropriate already available videos and other resources.
• Create video resources: Record, edit and deliver video.
• Create audio-visual interactive activities.
• Deal with main issues using technology in class.
• Make students create their own content.
• Get instant feedback from students.
• Use different ways of getting a quick and easy assessment.