The slides from introductory lecture on Monday

1. Introduction to the Tap-Swipe-
Pinch into STEM course
Mart Laanpere, Ph.D.
Senior researcher at the Centre for
Educational Technology, Tallinn University

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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)

5. Technology generation shifts
InshopsInschools
?

6. 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

7. 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