21st Century European Classrooms

Internet and web tools in the 21st century IES Las Banderas

El Puerto de Santa Maria, Cádiz – Spain

Web tools in teaching/learning practices

Web tools in teaching/learning practices

CONCEPTUAL GUIDELINE

Learning is a continuous process that requires a proper ecosystem. That's why I privilege the creation of learning communities in the digital environment, through the use of social networks and social media tools.

Many countries are trying to create classrooms that challenge traditional models and reverse the hierarchy, that allow young people to communicate and collaborate, that provide an authentic audience for children’s work and that exist within systems that are both open and transparent.

Web tools in teaching/learning practices

This means that by embracing the use of social media tools for learning and teaching we can start to build an “humus” culture that might contribute to the rethinking of learning/teaching systems.

Web tools in teaching/learning practices

Context references

Observing the effects of social media tools, we discover that:

• Social media challenges traditional models.

• Social media allows people to communicate.

• Social media allows people to collaborate.

• Social media gives people an audience.

• Social media services often remove hierarchy and are built from the bottom up.

• Social media is open and transparent.

So, they offers the best environment for innovative learning/teaching practices.

Social media have a great cultural relevance in education because young people are engaged when they are learning about things or with things that they can relate to or that are

relevant to them. So, Social media is highly cultural relevant at the moment for young people and harnessing these tools for education can develop powerful contexts for learning.

Moreover, Social media tools can also be used to encourage collaboration and can also be used to provide an authentic audience for children’s work, allowing peer reviews activities.

Web tools in teaching/learning practices

Regarding the application of specific web tools in teaching/learning practices in our school I will submit 3 which seem more significant:

1. to teach/learn English

- Guess the Country in Second Life (A. Elia)

- Moodle Recuperandia (C. Lasala)2. to teach/learn classical Epic and write a story

- History by Comics (Facebook, Storyboardthat, Padlet and Learningdiary)

SECOND LIFE IS AN IMMERSIVE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT WHICH PROMOTES INTERACTION THROUGH AVATARS AND IS A GOOD TOOL TO TEACH IF YOU WANT ADOPT A VISUAL

LEARNING APPROACHGUESS THE COUNTRY IS THE NAME OF ONE OF OUR SCHOOL'S PROJECTS TO TEACH

ENGLISH IN SECOND LIFETHIS LEARNING INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT OFFERS THE USE OF TEXT, PICTURES,

VIDEOS AND AUDIO CHAT

THE LEARNING UNIT IS “THE PROVENANCE” AND THE FIRST LEARNING OBJECTIVE IS TO COMBINE NATIONAL STEREOTYPES

AND FLAGS TO COUNTRIES (LISTENING/READING)

GUESS THE COUNTRY THE TOOLS ARE AN INTERACTIVE WALL, A

WORDGRID, A MAP, SOME NOTECARD AND SOME CUBES TO PLAY IN TEAM

GUESS THE COUNTRY

THE WALL SHOWS A NATIONAL STEREOTYPE AND THE RELATIVE FLAG

STUDENTS HAVE TO GUESS WHICH IS THE CONTRY ASSOCIATED

GUESS THE COUNTRY

THE TEACHER ASKS STUDENTS TO ASSOCIATE DIFFERENT NATIONS, FLAGS AND STREOTYPES

GUESS THE COUNTRY

THE WORDGRID LET DO A MATCHING EXERCISE STUDENTS HAVE TO ASSOCIATE FLAGS AND NATIONALITIES

GUESS THE COUNTRY ANOTHER LEARNING OBJECTIVE IS TO COMBINE NATIONAL

FLAGS AND COUNTRIES.THE TEACHER ASKS THE TEAM TO REACH THE COUNTRY

RELATED TO THE STEREOTYPE OR TO THE FLAG MOVING ON THE GEOMAP ON THE FLOOR (LISTENING AND SPEAKING)

GUESS THE COUNTRY

FINALLY YOU CAN TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE CITY REPRODUCED IN SL TO MEET PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT

NATIONALITIES

GUESS THE COUNTRY

A VIRTUAL TOUR OF BARCELONA

GUESS THE COUNTRY

A VIRTUAL TOUR OF LONDON

GUESS THE COUNTRY

A VIRTUAL TOUR OF PARIS

Web tools in teaching/learning practices

Moodle Recuperandia

To Make on in English http://itasvelearn.iisvittorioemanuele.it/course/view.php?id=3

Web tools and Social media in teaching/learning practices

SOCIAL MEDIA LEARNING

Facebook groups

- FUTURE CLASSROOM

https://www.facebook.com/groups/938465829511044/

- HISTORYROOM

https://www.facebook.com/groups/686064021530766/

- DIGITAL STORYTELLING AND HISTORY BY COMICS

Padlet http://it.padlet.com/lisasomma2015/storyboarding

and

Storyboardthat http://www.storyboardthat.com/

Web tools and Social media in teaching/learning practices

The Learning Designer suite of tools enables teachers to share their good teaching ideas. It is intended to help a subject teacher see how a particular pedagogic approach can be migrated successfully across different topics.

A VISUAL TALE: THE STORYBOARD

http://learningdesigner.org/viewer.php?uri=/personal/lisasomma/designs/fid/d9784e1defbe905084be6fcba3c8671b343bf74f357fff03b83395b6b351904a

LEARNING BY PLAYING AND STORYTELLING

http://learningdesigner.org/viewer.php?uri=/personal/lisasomma/designs/fid/7840f0d2c7c379b1d9c8fd0633add70b8116e49230deb6348cad865a65310da0