Digital Turn: How to make your school more digital
The “Digital Turn: How to Make Your School More Digital” course is designed to guide school leaders, ICT coordinators, and teachers through the process of integrating digital innovations in educational settings. The course emphasizes change management at the organizational level, focusing on designing, implementing, and evaluating digital initiatives school-wide. Key topics include upgrading digital infrastructure, creating policies on digital safety, supporting pedagogical innovation, and learning from successful digital transformations in other countries. Additionally, the course provides valuable insights into app usage, innovative teaching methods, and the practical implementation of mobile devices in daily educational activities.
What to expect from the course?
- Enhanced Digital Infrastructure: Learn how to upgrade your school’s digital infrastructure, including mobile devices, networks, and online learning tools, to create a more connected and efficient educational environment.
- Comprehensive Digital Safety Policies: Develop and implement effective school-wide policies on digital safety to protect students and staff in the digital age.
- Innovative Teaching Methods: Gain insights into innovative learning scenarios and pedagogical approaches that integrate digital tools, enhancing the teaching and learning experience.
- Resource Management: Understand the complexities of creating, managing, and legally using digital learning resources, including copyright and licensing considerations.
- Global Best Practices: Explore successful digital innovations from schools in other countries, providing practical examples and inspiration for your own school’s digital transformation.
Additional Benefits:
- App Utilization and Integration: Discover and share practical uses for educational apps and tablets, enhancing interactive and mobile learning experiences.
- Hands-on Experience: Engage in hands-on activities that demonstrate the innovative use of mobile devices in daily teaching and administrative tasks.
- Collaborative Learning: Benefit from a collaborative learning environment where you can exchange ideas and best practices with peers and experts in digital education.
Upskill Your Organization: This course is ideal for school management, teachers, special education teachers and all other non-teaching experts and staff working in school education, adult education and VET
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- Certificate of attendance
- School visits
- Admission to all sessions
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The “Digital Turn: How to Make Your School More Digital” course equips educational leaders and staff with the knowledge and tools to effectively implement and manage comprehensive digital innovations within their schools, enhancing infrastructure, safety, teaching methods, and resource management.
Course Highlights:
Workshops
The workshops cover a range of topics including leadership and school management, innovative teaching methods, digital competence, change management, digital safety policy creation, strategic planning for digital integration, and using digital storytelling to communicate school projects.
City tour
Enjoy a guided tour of the beautiful medieval Old Town of Tallinn. Explore the cultural and historical landmarks of this vibrant city.
Learn new skills
Increase your knowledge and learn new skills. Our course gives you the opportunity to learn how the top schools do it, and how to use it in your classroom.
The learning outcomes of the “Digital Turn: How to make your school more digital” course include:
- Strategic Digital Leadership: Gain skills in leading and managing school-wide digital transformation.
- Infrastructure Development: Learn how to upgrade and manage digital infrastructure, including mobile devices and networks.
- Pedagogical Innovation: Develop innovative teaching scenarios using digital tools.
- Digital Safety: Create and implement comprehensive digital safety policies.
- Change Management: Master strategies for supporting teachers, involving the community, and managing systemic change.
Mart Laanpere, Professor at Tallinn University, Estonia
- Position: Head of the R&D Centre for Educational Technology at Tallinn University
- Background: Former mathematics and physics teacher and school principal
- Affiliation: Member of the board of course provider Euneos, Finland
With over 20 years of experience in teacher education and educational technology research, Mart has transitioned from his roles as a mathematics and physics teacher and school principal to focus on advancing digital education. He has significantly contributed to international research projects on mobile technology and social software in education. Currently, he coordinates the training of school teams in the project “Digital Turn towards 1:1 Computing,” funded by Samsung (www.samsungdigipoore.ee), and is recognized as an expert in school digital innovation and change.
This is a provisional program.
Day 1, Sunday
18:00: Meeting everyone
18:30: Course expectations, practicalities, individual guidance, and support.
Day 2, Monday
09:00: Welcome and introduction of trainers and participants. Case studies on digital innovation in schools for the 21st Century.
12:30: Lunch
13:30: Presentations of participating schools (focus on previous experience and future plans for digital innovation).
15:00: Setting up a collaborative learning environment for the course. Digital infrastructure for 21st Century schools.
16:30: International evening – introducing national snacks, sweets, drinks, songs, and/or dances.
Day 3, Tuesday
09:00 New pedagogies for 21st Century schools.
11:00 Designing innovative learning scenarios.
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Digital competence of students and teachers.
16:30 Debriefing session
Day 4, Wednesday
09:00 Change management and diffusion of innovations.
11:00 Designing a digital safety policy for your school.
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Workshop on school’s digital strategy.
16:30 Debriefing and reflecting
Day 5, Thursday
09:00 Communicating your Digital Turn project through digital storytelling: composing a photo story on a school development project.
11:00 Cultural program
Day 6, Friday
09:00 Digital infrastructure: devices, network platforms, and services including Google Education.
11:00 Finalizing group projects and presentations.
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Final presentations of the projects.
16:30 Feedback on the course and evaluation. Presentation of certificates and follow-up activities.
Day 7, Saturday
10:00 Individual tutoring: elaborating on a favorite topic of the course, extra training for capabilities to work as trainers, and implementing course ideas in practice.
12:00 Follow-up and networking on new KA1/2 project proposals.
13:00 Closure.