iTEC Closing Conference

iTEC closing conference - Designing the future classroom

27 May 2014, Brussels

For the past four years, the iTEC project has been working towards the transformation of education in Europe. Since the project began in 2010, the iTEC project has been piloted in over 2,500 classrooms.

Now, as we draw towards the end of the piloting phase, the focus has shifted towards mainstreaming the results of the project across education systems as a whole. The iTEC closing conference took place in Brussels on 27 May 2014 and was attended by representatives from across the spectrum of the education process - policymakers, researchers, pedagogical experts, and representatives from the education technology sector.

 

AGENDA

Download the conference agenda and speakers' bios (pdf)

PRESENTATIONS

• Introduction, Will Ellis

Our experience of the future classroom

• Sven Olaf Brekke, Headmaster at Odda ungdomskole (Secondary School), Norway
• Kerry Shoebridge, iTEC Teacher and Ambassador, UK

iTEC and future Impact

• Initial Teacher Education, Martin Sillaots, iTEC NC, Tallinn University, Estonia
• Pedagogical toolkits, Taru Koskinen, teacher, Finland
• Teacher collaboration community, Fernando Rui Campos, iTEC NC, DGE Portugal
• The Future Classroom in national strategy, András Bakos, Head of Development, Educatio, Hungary

Hands-on sessions

• iTEC teacher training and EUN Academy, Benjamin Hertz, European Schoolnet
• iTEC toolkits for designing pedagogical innovation, Will Ellis, iTEC project manager, European Schoolnet and Tarmo Toikkanen, iTEC WP3 Leader, Aalto University, Finland
• Advanced pedagogical approaches using innovative technologies. Hermann Morgenbesser, iTEC teacher and National Coordinator, Austria; Sergio G. Cabezas, lecturer of educational technology, CSEU La Salle and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
• iTEC technologies for collaborative learning design

A vision of the future classroom

• Warren Barkley, Chief Technology Officer for SMART Technologies
• Gill Leahy and Mark Robinson, Promethean
• Ana Román Riechmann, Director of INTEF, Spanish Ministry of Education
• Closing address, Jim Ayre, European Schoolnet

Summary of Tweets

What do you think the classroom of 2025 will look like? We asked some of Europe's leading thinkers in education and pedagogy for their views.

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