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

2. 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).

3. 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

4. “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.”

5. 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.

6. 27 Partners

7. 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

8. 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

9. Project cycles

10. 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

11. For further information
WEB:
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 ). 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.