Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad Focus Group at Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad Arad (Romania) 29-30 March 2019 Consumer Classroom, an ICT4Edu Experience to Promote Active Citizenship and Consumer Education Awareness in EU Education Systems Supported by: EU expert - Andrea del Pilar Giraldo Sevilla, Expertise France, coordinator of Consumer Classroom European Project, Prof. dr. habil. Dorin Herlo – “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, National Team Leader of Consumer Classroom European Project
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How Consumer Classroom is supposed to respond to EU policy needs?
Policy Framework Our Mission Recent Policy needs Consumer Rights: Interest Information & Awareness Consumer Programme Policy Framework Our Mission Recent Policy needs Active Citizenship: Build knowledge & effective role in the market Digital Agenda for Europe
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Adapt the resources to the national curriculum A tool for collaboration Adapt the resources to the national curriculum Focus on quality resources Reward innovative and creative use of ICTs with students
What is the biggest challenge in Digitising Education What is the biggest challenge in Digitising Education? (describe in one word) Go to www.menti.com Code: 60 01 65 See the results
Students today are different 01 02 03 04 Digital Bombardement Older generations: Z or ZigZag reading Digital generations: F- reading Fast patterned reading After mobile devices The reverse S-Patterned
Example F-Reading Example S-Reading
Educational Challenges EdTech Revolution in teaching Role of formal, informal and non-formal education Digital Skills and Competences for jobs and life Digital Platforms MOOCs Mobile Learning Digital Learning Blended learning Educational Challenges Teaching Learning Revolution Pedagogical Gap Internet of things Big data Data mining Virtual Reality Augmented reality Polarization of the occupational structure Machine Learning Artificial intelligence
How these digital tools could help teachers adapt to their students and the classroom?