The project TACCLE2 was kindly invited to attend the Seminar PDW for Arts and Culture that will take place in Corfu, this week. We will have the opportunity to lead a workshop for teachers of arts and culture based on our Culture and Performing Arts book. The activities with technology will be tested with teachers coming from Full Article…
Dissemination workshop
Dissemination workshop at Santarém, Portugal, in the TIC@Portugal’14. A national event for teachers! Good reactions!! “I can do it with for promoting reading!”; “I can adjust difficulty level for different pupil levels…”…
Mindomo
Building and rebuilding concept maps and sharing them with others is a great reflective activity. The Mindomo application can facilitate this habit of reflective thinking, while it can play a social role by discussing and building shared maps. From my experience, concept maps in science, mainly with abstract concepts, centre attention on a few important Full Article…
Simulations
Click to Run I believe that the use of animations and simulations, like those from PhET, enables the manipulation of parameters and variables in different combinations, and facilitates the questioning of some issues, the systematic study of the causal relationship between variables, the formulation of alternative hypotheses and basis for conclusions. The exploration of a Full Article…
Wiki it!
Prós: Progressing from a linear logic to an interactive one using Wikis in the classroom could lead to new approaches to aggregate, review and edit content contributing to the creation of learning situations that help to build knowledge. This Web 2.0 tool enables collaboration and information sharing, maximizing collaborative work in the classroom. Some of the Full Article…
Genuine travelers
Overview This activity is planned to engage students between 6-8 years old from two distant groups of schools (or the same country or from different countries and regions). Basically, it consists in sending for the partner school (by mail) a doll traveler, representative of each class, simulating the journey of a student from one class Full Article…