SMART EDUCATION RESOURCES: Adopting mobile devices and adapting strategies

Experience the future of teaching and learning by making a selective adoption of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools, devices and apps.
Understand IT educational use, integration and continuous innovation.
Learn how to select the best options for your class, for your student's levels and subjects.
Experience the use of the newest apps to optimize teaching tasks and to work collaboratively.
Learn how to select and use apps to plan and prepare lessons, explore contents, monitor your student's perception and assess student performance.

Main Contents
- ICT educational use: integration policies, benefit analysis and continuous innovation;
- Digital natives teaching and learning models;
- Mobile device’s educational use and school integration;
- IT tools and apps for planning and preparing lessons;
- Tools and apps to explore contents and ease learning;
- Tools and apps for outdoor learning and monitoring activities;
- Tools and apps to monitor and assess student performance;
- Collaborative working tools and apps.

Course methodology
- Brief introduction to each of the topics.
- Participants share experiences and best practices on each topic in group and plenary sessions.
- Participants experiment the use of the explored ICT tools, install, configure and explore tools and apps;
- Participants visit public and private schools, from different levels and observe infrastructures and resources and ICT usage.
- Participants observe lessons: teaching, studying and learning processes in classrooms in small groups or individually.
- Individually or in collaborative work, participants prepare lessons, using ICT tools and apps.

Course fee
The course fee is 380€.
Cultural visits and meals are paid separately.
Algarve cultural visit has the cost of 50€. Participants not willing to join the cultural visit must notify ACJI 15 days before course starts.

Validation
The course participants will get a Certificate of participation and a Declaration of Obtained Competences.
The competences acquired will be validated by the course organizers on the Europass mobility. Participants must ask their national agency to issue the Europass (Visit our website Documents – Europass mobility).