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Traditional Classroom Vs Technological (digital) classroom
 

Welcome to the third Community of Practice (CoP) in the second cycle of inGenious!

It will be open  from 29 October  until 7 December.

The idea of running this CoP, called “Traditional classroom vs technological (digital) classroom” was born after first inGenious summer school and practical workshop in Bratislava, where several inGenious teachers shared their ideas/experiences about the use of technology inside their classes, to improve STEM education.

Digital citizenship and digital litteracy are target of the future society, but technology is just facing inside our schools.

Many questions are open and teachers that already experimented the use of technology in their school shared their appreciation and dubt.

 

Thus, the aims of this CoP are:

- share resources, knowledge and ideas that lead teachers to bring technology into classes;

- discuss about advantages/disadvantages which come out from the use of technology in schools;

- share good practices and ideas to reduce gender gap and promote girls interest in STEM education, through the help of tecnologica/digital resources;

- share good practices to promote learning and motivation in students with special needs through educational robotics, games, compensatory softwares;

- etc.

 

The topics to be discussed in this CoP are: 

1. Digital devices

2. New media

3. Special needs

4. Technological/digital classes vs Traditional classes

 

This Community will give you the possibility to:

- discuss possible ways of implementations

- learn from each other & exchange ideas

- share good practices

- ask each other for advice

- etc. 
The experts
 

The experts of this CoP will be Tullia Urschitz (Italy) and Jukka Rahkonen (Finland).

Tullia Urschitz works as Maths and Science teacher at Istituto Comprensivo Lorenzi of Fumane, a Lower Secondary School near Verona, Italy. She is also teacher trainer on the use of Interactive Whiteboards and ICT.

Tullia collaborates with School of Robotics in Genoa, training students and teachers to the use of Educational Robotics inside school curriculum.

The School of Robotics is a non-profit cultural association whose aim is to promote the knowledge of the science of Robotics within the framework of existing educational and teaching institutions. School of Robotics is Italian Regional Centre of the Project “Roberta, girls discover robots”, which has the aim to reduce gender gap in STEM subjects.

Tullia has a degree in Forest Sciences, University of Padua (Faculty of Agronomic and Forest Sciences). She was involved in several European Projects related with the promotion of STEM subjects in learning/teaching processes. 
She has worked as tutor in FSE Masters at Verona University.

From 2006 she collaborates with a school publisher, working on scientific and school publishing, especially taking care to digital materials.

 

Hi everybody! My name is Jukka Rahkonen and I'm a Finnish science teacher teaching physics, chemistry and math for the students at the age of 13 to 15 years old. When studying (M.Sc.) my main subject was physics, especially nuclear physics. I'm very interested in developing teaching and making it as interesting as possible for the students.

I'm responsible for improving the use of the new technology in STEM-teaching in my municipality. So that's why I'm very interested in this CoP:) I also teach the teachers in Finland to differentiate their teaching so that every kind of pupil could learn as well as possible. This year I've published a guide for the teachers on that topic.

Before my ten years of teaching I worked as a Managing Director and Producer in a media company producing both tv-productions and also commercial films. Sometimes I also worked as a journalist and assistant director.

I like new technology, sailing, cycling, soccer, films and Finnish sauna:)

I really hope we'll have a lively, interesting and useful CoP!