Category Archives: For teachers

Posts that are of interest to teachers who are looking at the scenarios and maybe using them in their teaching.

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

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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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Scenario work results from Århus

Small groups in Århus discussed various scenarios. Here are summaries of their findings. They looked at practical implementation issues, learning outcomes, technical requirements, etc.

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Notes from the Århus developers’ workshop

I’m posting here some main points from the first day of the developers’ workshop that relate to scenario and prototype affordances, technical possibilities and limitations. This is going to be a bit technical – be forewarned!

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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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Scenario videos are online

We visualized two of the scenarios, ‘Outdoor Study Project‘ and ‘Recognizing Informal Learning‘ in the form of short videos. The videos can be viewed at the ‘iTEC – get inspired‘ webpage and can be commented on at the European Schoolnet … Continue reading

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Participatory Design workshops are commencing

We have finalized instructions and materials needed for Participatory Design (PD) workshops and we’ve sent e-mail to National Pedagogical Coordinators allowing them to organize the workshops in their countries. The 9 scenarios are divided among the various workshops. The PD … Continue reading

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Scenarios under scrutiny

In December we organized a first internal workshop to discuss and categorize the scenarios provided to us by the Future Lab people. This week we continued working with the scenarios based on the first workshop. Now all nine scenarios are … Continue reading

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