Designing the Future Classroom Marc Durando European Schoolnet. Designing the Future Classroom

iTEC proposal A call to address Learning in the 21st Century…. (TEL Call – FP 7 – DG research) Large-scale pilots for the design of the future classroom (exploring both technology and teaching practices).

iTEC proposal Research should address Innovation in learning and teaching Underlining change processes New summative and formative assessment methods Novel solutions supporting the active participation of a wider community of stakeholders

“With 27 project partners, including 14 Ministries of Education, iTEC will provide a model describing how the deployment of technology in support of innovative teaching and learning activities can move beyond small scale pilots and become embedded in all Europe’s schools.”

Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom iTEC is a large-scale pilot involving up to 1,000 classrooms focused on Learning in the 21st Century and the design of the future classroom. Partners include representatives of 14 Ministries of Education, leading ICT vendors, innovative SMEs, TEL researchers, teacher educators and experts in school validations and pedagogical evaluation. The key aim is to develop engaging scenarios for learning in the future classroom that can be validated in large-scale pilots and subsequently taken to scale. iTEC produces meaningful pedagogical scenarios for the future classroostakeholders outside the school. These are then tested and evaluated in the largest pan-European validation within m and, from these, derives learning activities which engage teachers, learners and schools yet undertaken. The iTEC technology approach will make the resource components, (people, tools, services and content) required by the scenarios, interoperable and discoverable, so that teachers can more easily select and combine relevant features tailored to the future classroom scenario of their choice. This is in line with current trends towards teachers choosing from a wide variety of loosely coupled tools in a classroom where interactive whiteboards and other interactive, multi-touch technologies act as a ‘gateway’ for teachers to start exploring the further use of digital technologies in learning and teaching. Combined with this, iTEC is researching the skills and competences needed by teachers in the future classroom and equipping teachers, both within and beyond the project, with the pedagogical knowledge and skills needed to implement project scenarios. Having identified scenarios with the maximum potential to have a transformative effect on the design of the future classroom, the project will implement a mainstreaming strategy designed to ensure that work carried out in the large-scale pilots contributes to the educational reform process.

27 Partners

What are the ingredients of the future classroom? The future classroom will: Make use of emerging technologies Support Teaching of 21st Century skills Cope with social change and expectations Support the political Agenda Allow new effective assessment Utilise existing buildings Rely on limited funds Still require children to go to school Need to work with suppliers Need to build upon existing knowledge Need to engage with learners and teachers Need to work with policy makers Need to accept reality “As for the future, your task is not to foresee it but to enable it.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Scenarios Pre-pilots Pilots Evaluation Project cycle 2010 Sep ................................................................................................................ Oct Nov Dec 2011 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept 2012 Jan Scenarios WP2 WP3 Pre-pilots Scenario focus group stimulus material Pilots WP4 WP5 Evaluation

Project cycles

Mainstreaming iTEC scenarios Living Lab Policy makers and commercial ICT suppliers can rethink and test designs for the future classroom High level Group Includes the formation of a high-level group Will help ensure that iTEC results feed into the educational reform process at both national and European level Educational reform processes

For further information WEB: http://itec.eun.org EMAIL: itec-contact@eun.org The work presented in this presentation is partially supported by the European Commission’s FP7 programme – project iTEC: Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom (Grant agreement Nº 257566). The content of this presentation is the sole responsibility of the consortium members and it does not represent the opinion of the European Commission and the Commission is not responsible for any use that might be made of information contained herein.