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Cycle 2 – Pre-pilot learning activities submitted
Based on the cycle 2 scenarios and participatory design workshops with teachers, we designed learning activities for the iTEC cycle 2 pre-pilots. The main finding of the analysis process was that all scenarios follow project-based learning. Hence, all participating teachers … Continue reading
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Cycle 1 – Pilot learning stories and activities submitted
As the first iTEC cycle is the very beginning of the project, there is only one piece of technology for the teachers to pilot in their classrooms. However, they are also asked to include 5 of 6 learning activities into … Continue reading
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TeamUp, report, pilots and more
Update 30.9.2011: The Report on Design Prototypes and Design Challenged for Education is now available at the iTEC website’s Results and deliverables -page. The After the summer holiday, we have been working full speed on carefully developing the TeamUp tool … Continue reading
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Analyzing the reflections of teachers
Teachers participated in the cycle 1 pre-pilot study of the iTEC project. On Monday and Tuesday, we analyzed the teacher’s reflections in detail. The analysis is still ongoing, but we can already say that we received 17 reflections from teachers … Continue reading
Mini-scenarios and design ideas.
Although the fleshed out scenarios were not available yet, in last week’s group meeting, we wanted to get a feeling for how many of the 10 highest ranking cycle 2 mini-scenarios related to our initial prototype ideas.
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Cycle 2 – Familiarizing with the mini scenarios
Last Thursday, the cycle 2 mini scenarios arrived. Based on a vote of the iTEC partners, 8 scenarios will be taken further to be fleshed out during a scenario development workshop organized by Future Lab later this month. LeGroup met … Continue reading
Cycle 2 Scenario building workshop in Paris
During the 2-day cycle two scenario building workshop that was held at the Promethean office in Paris, 20 mini scenarios were developed. The scenarios were based on the results of the iTEC survey, the iTEC teacher survey and the Power … Continue reading
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Multitouch microscope
Researchers at University of Helsinki and at a finnish company MultiTouch have made a clever innovation of using large multitouch screens as an interface for microscopes. The innovation is proposed as a teaching tool, allowing teacher to show how to use … Continue reading
The first teacher focus group session with the “TeamUp” prototype
We were today having the first focus group session looking the first prototype, named as TeamUp. The comments and discussion was lively, interesting and very useful for us. After the sessions we quickly wrapped-up the main points and raised some … Continue reading
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From scenarios to design challenges
We now have results from 9 participatory design workshops organized in 8 countries across Europe. These workshops took each 2-3 of the proposed scenarios and let teachers to work on these scenarios and propose their improvements and analysis on their feasibility.
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