By Chryso Charalambous Christodoulou

FUNecole Research Institute

Inspiring 21st Century Students for Innovative

Learning and Creative Teaching with FUNecole®.

IEFE Conference 2013

General Workshop Outline!

Theme 1: !The 21st Challenges. Enabling Dynamic ! !School Transformations. Inspire and Aspire!

Theme 2: !FUNecole Creative Learning Environment!

Theme 3: !Doing it together Innovative Teaching Creative Learning

•  A place where children are trained in literacy.!

•  Teaching is usually separate from life and

play.!

•  Teachers must be in control.!

•  Students are expected to be obedient.

Linguistic or verbal !

Visual and spatial !

Logical and mathematical !

Physical Interpersonal !

Musical !

Interpersonal!

Meta cognitive!

Questioning!

Planning!

Discussing!

Cooperating learning

Divergent thinking

Cognitive mapping

Coaching reviewing

Learning environment

Expanding thinking throughout the curriculum !

Good enough is not good enough

Learning from our students as they

can learn form us!

Relationships matter: how students

know teachers care!

Teaching to student strengths!

The ways that students process information truly seems like a modern phenomenon!

Education should go beyond teaching basic computer skills ICT!

Unprecedented new media introduction!

Challenge No 1

Autonomously manage the complexity and diversity of a world that needs more flexible, focused on reality and radically more innovative minds. !

Student-centred methods that inspire cognition and meta cognition. !

The 21st century students need

Challenge No 2

Challenge No 4

The Europe Digital Action 2020 Fully exploit the innovative power of ICT for the benefit of every EU citizen and of society as a whole. !

It is essential to educate European citizens to use ICT and digital media and particularly to attract youngsters to ICT education”!

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“Excellence” the new global Standard!

1 Compete!

Connect!

Cooperate!

Transform with a global context in mind!

Challenge No 5

Teaching the iGeneration !Becoming Network wise

Connect & Collaborate

Critically Read Information!

Critically Read People!

Publish for an Audience

Write in Multiple Modes

Organize Multitasking

Engage in Diverse Voices!

Challenge No 6

How can the schools produce global competences?

Develop international oriented faculty!

Promote participation in international projects

Expand students experiences though travel, partnerships and school exchanges

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4 Transform the educational system with a global context in mind

Challenge No 7

Challenge No 8

The 21st century educators!

Broad knowledge and skills in many disciplines. !

Ready to differentiate, collaborate & share experiences !

Meet the high cognitive student demands!

Keep “multiple balls in the air”; !

A slow internet connection is a bad day…

What do youngsters use Technology for? !

Extent friendships based on real interests!

Upload videos, visit blogs & update wikis!

Collaborate, Multitask, Share!

Challenge No 9

What children need is not only the development of technical skills but also the cultivation and nourishment of qualities like compassion, self discipline, moral judgment, empathy, respect, sense of belonging and community support.!

Bare Necessities…!

Challenge No 10

Conclusively students need!

To manage autonomously the complexity and diversity of a world that needs more flexible, focused on reality and radically more innovative minds. !

Student-centred methods that inspire cognition and meta cognition. !

They are waiting for the teachers and the curricula to catch up!

Students are in the 21st century

Thank you