Introduction to the Tap-Swipe-Pinch into STEM course

Mart Laanpere, Ph.D.Senior researcher at the Centre for

Educational Technology, Tallinn University

Practicalities

• Agenda: http://tspstem.blogspot.com.ee• Apps: GDrive, EverNote, Storyo…• Communication: Edmodo, Facebook, Twitter?• Sharing: GDocs• Contacts: Mart & Marina• Documenting and reflecting• Learning together, helping each other• Certificates, EuroPass

Technology and innovation in schooling

• Socrates: books will kill the learning• Gutenberg: “normalised”, scalable knowledge• Comenius: Didactica Magna• Skinner: science of teaching• Papert: computers in school as a jet engine for

horse carriage• Evidence-based educational reform and

pendulum effect

How to measure the impact of ICT?• Conference in Astana: scientific proof needed!• Tiger in Focus, SITES and other studies: no impact on

grades, school budget, minor impact on paradigm shift• Tiger Leap commissioned a whole-class 1:1 laptop study,

teachers: no need to change, students: take them away!• OLPC & Inter-America Bank: 2.5million laptops later, no

or marginal effect on learning outcomes (math test)• Systemic approach is needed: infrastructure, services,

educational technology support, staff training, leadership, curriculum reform, research-based decisions, room for experimentation and failures (iTEC EduVista)

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Estonian National Lifelong Learning Strategy 2014 – 2020: rationale

• “Use of ICT” model, based on computer labs, has reached its limits

• PPT/IWB is not enough, does not change learning• E-learning (Moodle) model did not take off, does

not suit primary and secondary schools• No good ideas for e-textbook model in current

settings (1 computer lab per school)• Ergo: learning in the digital age, 1:1 and BYOD

model, digital learning ecosystem

Strategy for Lifelong Learning 2020: action plan for Digital Turn

• Digital turn in formal education system: digital culture into curricula, bottom-up innovation, sharing good practice, educational technologists in schools

• Digital learning resources: digital textbooks, OER, quality management, recommender systems

• Digital infrastructure for learning : 1:1 computing, BYOD, interoperable ecosystem of services, mobile clients, school-wide digital turn (first in 20 pilot schools, then in others)

• Digital competences of teachers and students: competence models, self-assessment tools, mapping with course offerings and accreditation procedures, updating initial teacher education curricula

https://www.hm.ee/sites/default/files/estonian_lifelong_strategy.pdf