The document discusses the need for changes in education and schools to better prepare students for the future. It notes that most educational changes today are happening outside of traditional schools. It then presents a vision for a new collaborative multimedia platform called Schoooools.com that would allow students, parents, and teachers to communicate, share resources and learn together both inside and outside of school, helping to develop important 21st century skills. Working groups are proposed to discuss how to improve tomorrow's schools by taking advantage of new technologies while also maintaining important cultural and social values.

1. Tomorrow’s schools start today!
Ademar Aguiar @ ISDT 2011 . Porto . Portugal

2. Tomorrow’s schools start tomorrow?
Ademar Aguiar @ ISDT 2011 . Porto . Portugal

7. Today

8. 10% of the world population (750 M) has an account!
the world is changing…
http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919

9. Wikipedia
Massive knowledge creation by global collaboration

10. One work week is uploaded every minute

11. Collabora'on Teamwork

12. Collec've knowledge

13. Knowledge workers

14. People ma8er most!

15. Children

16. “ Young people need to focus on
using new tools, finding
information, making meaning,
and creating.
”
Marc Prensky — Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning

17. “ Today’s students aren’t just
consumers of information,
they’re producers
”
Marc Prensky — Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning

18. “ [But] there is a huge paradox
for educators: the place where
the biggest educational
changes have come is not our
schools: it is everywhere but
our schools.
”
Marc Prensky — Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning

19. “The Nurnberg Funnel”, 1648-1940

20. schools
ICT
parents
teachers
multimedia
wikis web 2.0
communities

21. Vision: a multimedia PLE/LMS for 6-12 years old

22. “To develop educational software especially
designed for children to support new ways of
learning and teaching, so that students and paren
teachers and educators, schools and families may
develop together important 21st century digital
skills, especially in information, media and
citizenship literacies.”

23. Web 2.0 simplified!
Web 2.0
for kids of 4-12 years
.com
a collaborative and social platform for elementary schools

24. Schoooools.com provides official school web spaces to support
collaboration, communication and sharing of schools’ contents
and activities between students, parents and teachers.
Educative A collaborative space to use in classroom, at
home, everywhere, for educational purposes
Entertainment An appealing space to use also in leisure
time, to learn by playing, chatting, etc.
An engaging space to promote
Social
collaboration, and socialization.

25. Sept. 2009

26. Mar. 2010

27. Everybody will be in touch!
Parents Students Educators

28. … respecting the privacy and rules of real social circles!
School
Family
Classroom

30. Jun. 2011
private social collaborative
editors sharing private blogs
networks
pictures
calendars messages private chat
photos
content student
class plans file sharing
publishing information
LMS integration 3rd party tools
school portal parents portal
integration

31. Collaborative editors for co-creation of digital media
newspapers, infograms
videos, games
music, school radio
school TV channels

32. Key design principles
• To support simple and effective use of ICT by the
school’s community, inside or outside the school.
• To be a natural complement to all other ICT
resources: computers, internet access, interactive
whiteboards, digital contents, etc.
• To allow progressive development of e-skills, from
the basic to more advanced, or new ones:
collaborative editors, ..., email, blogs, wikis, chat,
private social networks.
• To support the communication, collaboration,
sharing, anchored on the real school privacy rules.
• To promote the school-as-a-community model,
informal learning, social learning, creativity and
innovation, thus helping reduce the digital divide.

33. Partners/Supporters
…
creative
economy

34. Technologies

35. since 2007...
escolinhas.net
USA
Chile
RD project
Creative schools Brazil
prototypes Jan.2011-Dec.2012 Scandinavia
Free Canada
all schools of Porto Premium Spain
UK
national release partnering for …
internationalization

37. Jun.2011

38. Jul.2011

40. Tomorrow

41. passing on cultural and social values,
traditions, morality, religion and
skills to the next generation

42. Working groups
• Choose a role to play and join its group
• teacher, parent, student, researcher, policy maker,
technologist, etc.
• Answer four questions
• What we are doing well at schools today, to keep?
• What did we learn until now?
• What should we do differently at tomorrow schools?
• What still puzzles us? (good? bad?)

43. Discussion in a fishbowl
• 5 chairs
• 4 chairs with participants
• 1 chair always empty waiting for a participant to
take part of the discussion

44. Do you share this passion? Let’s go together!
• Looking for:
• enthusiasts
• teachers
• schools
• municipalities
• researchers
• partners
• ...

45. Thank you!
ademar.aguiar@fe.up.pt