The document discusses using web tools and social media in 21st century European classrooms. It advocates for creating learning communities through social networks and media to make learning a continuous process. Some tools highlighted include using Second Life to play "Guess the Country" to teach English, Moodle for exam preparation, and Facebook, StoryboardThat and Padlet to collaboratively create history comics. Harnessing social media gives students authentic audiences and removes hierarchies in learning.

1. 21st Century European Classrooms
Internet and web tools in the 21st century
IES Las Banderas
El Puerto de Santa Maria, Cádiz – Spain
Web tools in teaching/learning practices

2. Web tools in teaching/learning practices
CONCEPTUAL GUIDELINE
Learning is a continuous process that
requires a proper ecosystem. That's why I
privilege the creation of learning communities
in the digital environment, through the use of
social networks and social media tools.
Many countries are trying to create
classrooms that challenge traditional models
and reverse the hierarchy, that allow young
people to communicate and collaborate, that
provide an authentic audience for children’s
work and that exist within systems that are
both open and transparent.

3. Web tools in teaching/learning practices
This means that by embracing the
use of social media tools for
learning and teaching we can start
to build an “humus” culture that
might contribute to the rethinking
of learning/teaching systems.

4. Web tools in teaching/learning practices
Context references
Observing the effects of social media tools, we discover that:
• Social media challenges traditional models.
• Social media allows people to communicate.
• Social media allows people to collaborate.
• Social media gives people an audience.
• Social media services often remove hierarchy and are built from the bottom up.
• Social media is open and transparent.
So, they offers the best environment for innovative learning/teaching practices.
Social media have a great cultural relevance in education because young people are engaged
when they are learning about things or with things that they can relate to or that are
relevant to them. So, Social media is highly cultural relevant at the moment for young people and
harnessing these tools for education can develop powerful contexts for learning.
Moreover, Social media tools can also be used to encourage collaboration and can also be used
to provide an authentic audience for children’s work, allowing peer reviews activities.

5. Web tools in teaching/learning practices
Regarding the application of specific web tools in
teaching/learning practices in our school I will submit 3
which seem more significant:
1. to teach/learn English
- Guess the Country in Second Life (A. Elia)
- Moodle Recuperandia (C. Lasala)
2. to teach/learn classical Epic and write a story
- History by Comics
(Facebook, Storyboardthat, Padlet and Learningdiary)

6. SECOND LIFE IS AN IMMERSIVE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT WHICH PROMOTES INTERACTION
THROUGH AVATARS AND IS A GOOD TOOL TO TEACH IF YOU WANT ADOPT A VISUAL
LEARNING APPROACH
GUESS THE COUNTRY IS THE NAME OF ONE OF OUR SCHOOL'S PROJECTS TO TEACH
ENGLISH IN SECOND LIFE
THIS LEARNING INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT OFFERS THE USE OF TEXT, PICTURES,
VIDEOS AND AUDIO CHAT

7. THE LEARNING UNIT IS “THE PROVENANCE” AND THE FIRST
LEARNING OBJECTIVE IS TO COMBINE NATIONAL STEREOTYPES
AND FLAGS TO COUNTRIES (LISTENING/READING)

8. GUESS THE COUNTRY
THE TOOLS ARE AN INTERACTIVE WALL, A
WORDGRID, A MAP, SOME NOTECARD AND SOME
CUBES TO PLAY IN TEAM

9. GUESS THE COUNTRY
THE WALL SHOWS A NATIONAL STEREOTYPE
AND THE RELATIVE FLAG
STUDENTS HAVE TO GUESS WHICH IS THE CONTRY
ASSOCIATED

10. GUESS THE COUNTRY
THE TEACHER ASKS STUDENTS TO ASSOCIATE DIFFERENT
NATIONS, FLAGS AND STREOTYPES

11. GUESS THE COUNTRY
THE WORDGRID LET DO A MATCHING EXERCISE
STUDENTS HAVE TO ASSOCIATE FLAGS AND NATIONALITIES

12. GUESS THE COUNTRY
ANOTHER LEARNING OBJECTIVE IS TO COMBINE NATIONAL
FLAGS AND COUNTRIES.
THE TEACHER ASKS THE TEAM TO REACH THE COUNTRY
RELATED TO THE STEREOTYPE OR TO THE FLAG MOVING ON
THE GEOMAP ON THE FLOOR (LISTENING AND SPEAKING)

13. GUESS THE COUNTRY
FINALLY YOU CAN TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE CITY
REPRODUCED IN SL TO MEET PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT
NATIONALITIES

14. GUESS THE COUNTRY
A VIRTUAL TOUR OF BARCELONA

15. GUESS THE COUNTRY
A VIRTUAL TOUR OF LONDON

16. GUESS THE COUNTRY
A VIRTUAL TOUR OF PARIS

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Moodle Recuperandia
To Make on in English
http://itasvelearn.iisvittorioemanuele.it/course/view.php?id=3

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in teaching/learning practices
SOCIAL MEDIA LEARNING
Facebook groups
- FUTURE CLASSROOM
https://www.facebook.com/groups/938465829511044/
- HISTORYROOM
https://www.facebook.com/groups/686064021530766/
- DIGITAL STORYTELLING AND HISTORY BY COMICS
Padlet http://it.padlet.com/lisasomma2015/storyboarding
and
Storyboardthat http://www.storyboardthat.com/

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in teaching/learning practices
The Learning Designer suite of tools enables teachers to
share their good teaching ideas. It is intended to help a
subject teacher see how a particular pedagogic approach
can be migrated successfully across different topics.
A VISUAL TALE: THE STORYBOARD
http://learningdesigner.org/viewer.php?uri=/personal/lisasomma/design
LEARNING BY PLAYING AND STORYTELLING
http://learningdesigner.org/viewer.php?uri=/personal/lisasomma/designs