8. 10% of the world population (750 M) has an account!
the world is changing…
http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919
16. “ Young people need to focus on
using new tools, finding
information, making meaning,
and creating.
”
Marc Prensky — Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning
17. “ Today’s students aren’t just
consumers of information,
they’re producers
”
Marc Prensky — Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning
18. “ [But] there is a huge paradox
for educators: the place where
the biggest educational
changes have come is not our
schools: it is everywhere but
our schools.
”
Marc Prensky — Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning
22. “To develop educational software especially
designed for children to support new ways of
learning and teaching, so that students and paren
teachers and educators, schools and families may
develop together important 21st century digital
skills, especially in information, media and
citizenship literacies.”
23. Web 2.0 simplified!
Web 2.0
for kids of 4-12 years
.com
a collaborative and social platform for elementary schools
24. Schoooools.com provides official school web spaces to support
collaboration, communication and sharing of schools’ contents
and activities between students, parents and teachers.
Educative A collaborative space to use in classroom, at
home, everywhere, for educational purposes
Entertainment An appealing space to use also in leisure
time, to learn by playing, chatting, etc.
An engaging space to promote
Social
collaboration, and socialization.
28. … respecting the privacy and rules of real social circles!
School
Family
Classroom
29.
30. Jun. 2011
private social collaborative
editors sharing private blogs
networks
pictures
calendars messages private chat
photos
content student
class plans file sharing
publishing information
LMS integration 3rd party tools
school portal parents portal
integration
31. Collaborative editors for co-creation of digital media
newspapers, infograms
videos, games
music, school radio
school TV channels
32. Key design principles
• To support simple and effective use of ICT by the
school’s community, inside or outside the school.
• To be a natural complement to all other ICT
resources: computers, internet access, interactive
whiteboards, digital contents, etc.
• To allow progressive development of e-skills, from
the basic to more advanced, or new ones:
collaborative editors, ..., email, blogs, wikis, chat,
private social networks.
• To support the communication, collaboration,
sharing, anchored on the real school privacy rules.
• To promote the school-as-a-community model,
informal learning, social learning, creativity and
innovation, thus helping reduce the digital divide.
35. since 2007...
escolinhas.net
USA
Chile
RD project
Creative schools Brazil
prototypes Jan.2011-Dec.2012 Scandinavia
Free Canada
all schools of Porto Premium Spain
UK
national release partnering for …
internationalization
41. passing on cultural and social values,
traditions, morality, religion and
skills to the next generation
42. Working groups
• Choose a role to play and join its group
• teacher, parent, student, researcher, policy maker,
technologist, etc.
• Answer four questions
• What we are doing well at schools today, to keep?
• What did we learn until now?
• What should we do differently at tomorrow schools?
• What still puzzles us? (good? bad?)
43. Discussion in a fishbowl
• 5 chairs
• 4 chairs with participants
• 1 chair always empty waiting for a participant to
take part of the discussion
44. Do you share this passion? Let’s go together!
• Looking for:
• enthusiasts
• teachers
• schools
• municipalities
• researchers
• partners
• ...
