This document outlines the agenda for a 5-day course on using tablets in education. The course will include introductions, guided tours, presentations, workshops on using tablets and apps for learning, visits to local schools implementing tablets, group work creating learning materials and videos, and discussions on models of education from Finland. Participants will learn skills for using tablets, explore apps for creative learning, and collaborate online. The agenda also schedules meals, social activities and a farewell party to be held at local restaurants near the hotel.
1. Future Education with Tablets – Course Agenda
Time
Activities
Sunday
19:00
Welcome Dinner at Restaurant Wienerwirt (Mariatrosterstr. 87, 8043 Graz). The restaurant is very close to the participants Hotel Stoiser. Meeting at the Hotel at 18.30
Monday (Day 1)
09:00-10:00
Course introduction
10:00-11:00
Getting to know each other (group work)
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15-11:45
Guided tour through our house (led by trainees from atempo)
11:45 -12:30
Presentations of group works and collecting expectations
12:30 – 13:45
Lunch
13:45-15:30
How to use an iPad / Android Tablet - first steps and further steps
15:30- 16:00
Digital Course Diary
16:00-16:30
Feedback
19:30
Dinner in the old town of Graz at the Italian restaurant “L´Osteria”, (Mehlplatz 1, 8010 Graz)
2. Tuesday (Day 2)
09:00-10:00
What can you learn from the Finnish education system?
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-12:30
Creative learning with iPads and Tablets or the never- ending search for the ultimate App
12:30 – 13:45
Lunch
13:45-15:15
Enhance learning - create your own learning / teaching material about the use of your tablet
15:45 - 16:30
Course Diary and MAMA-Feedback
Wednesday (Day 3)
08:00 - 12:00
Visit of the the first iPad-school in Austria
12:00 - 15:00
Lunch and visit of the castle Riegersburg
15:00-16:00
Bird of Prey - Show (Hawks,…) at the castle
19:30
Dinner at the pub "Eschenlaube".
3. Thursday (Day 4)
09:00 - 10:30
Accessiblity Features of iOS8 and android
11:00 - 12:00
iPads@atempo, experiences and examples of using tablets in education.
12:00 – 12:30
LearningApps.org – create your own learning material.
12:30 – 13:45
Lunch
13:45 - 15:00
Open learning space and Apps Market (sharing experiences with speed contributions)
15:30 - 16:30
Virtual classroom and online collaboration with google drive / Showbie
16:15 - 16:30
Course diary and feedback
Friday (Day 5)
9:00-10:00
Sharing and going public - different possibilities to publish rich media-content online; privacy and safe use of the internet
10:00 - 10:45
Easy-Movie production with Tablets
11:00 - 12:30
Producing a short video (group work)
12:30 – 13:45
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Uploading videos to YouTube / Google Drive
15:00 - 16:30
Sharing videos as part of the course feedback
Final course feedback and evaluation; outlook on follow-up activities.
19:00
Farewell Party at the restaurant "Steierstub´n".