Day 2 and 3

Day 2 started by a interesting Keynote about the new technology available. There will be great innovations combining pad and laptop with Windows 8.

The rest of the day we spent together with our coaching group leaded by Mr. Chris Gerry. Our school got wonderful partners from three Danish Schools. Mr Kalle Komulainen and Mrs. Marianne Kron are our mentors.

Day 3 started with the keynote lecture by Professor Kirsti Lonka from Helsinki University. She is trying to help teacher candidates adapt a new way of thinking about learning and learning environments from the first day.

In the afternoon we divided into the groups of interesting topics like game based learning, personalized learning, 1 to 1 computing, virtual learning, project based learning and physical learning environment. We participated in games and personalized learning. Hot topic is soft skills which for example relate to a person's ability to interact effectively with coworkers or costudents. That’s what we have to start thinking about because our strategy lies on co-operative learning.

There are also a lot of projects made by the innovative teachers around the world participating into the competition. Two examples from Pakistan and Ritaharju School Oulu Finland.

  


















p.s Excellent link for everything you like to know about PBL (problem based learning) 
http://dp.hightechhigh.org/~jrobin/