IES Las Banderas is a bilingual school in Andalusia, Spain that utilizes information and communication technologies (ICT) like digital boards, email, Google Drive, tablets, and blogs to enhance student learning. Teachers create their own materials and lessons to teach using these technologies. Students use ICT tools to complete and share projects, build e-portfolios to track their language progress, and do cooperative work in ICT rooms. The school aims to foster creativity and innovation through their ICT-focused educational approach.

1. FUTURE CLASSROOM
CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION

2. STARTING POINT
IES Las Banderas is a Bilingual school
belonging to the ICT schools net in
Andalucía. This ICT project implies the use
of ICT resources in our daily labour and
takes advantage of them in our lessons.
It encourages student cooperation and the
learning process is more active. Students
can get a fast feedback and it emphasizes
time on task. And one of the most important
aspects is that it respects the diverse
talents and ways of learning.

3. DIGITAL BOARDS
We have got digital boards in our
classrooms.
Teachers use the whiteboards as a way
to project their lessons. We use digital
books, provided by the editorials but we
usually create our own materials (didactic
units, presentations…)
.

4. DIGITAL BOARDS
Students use them to make oral
presentations of their projects. In
this way they reinforce their
speaking skill.
It’s very positive because they
know that their projects are going to
be seen by their partners and they do
their best

5. EMAIL
We usually give our students
homework through email and they
send it back to us by mail too. It’s a
new concept.They are used to this
new way of communication and
interaction with their teachers.

6. GOOGLE DRIVE
We encourage our students to use it.
For example, they create their own files in
Drive where they can store all their
projects of every subject. In this way they
realize the concept of the ‘cloud’. They can
also revise their projects and see their
improvement.
All the teachers at our school share
information through Google Drive:
information about students, activities, ....

7. TABLETS
Since last year, all the teachers use a tablet
( given by the school) to facilitate the use of
the Seneca Portal: it’s a virtual portal made
by the Junta de Andalucía and in it we can
find all the data of our students.

8. E-PORTFOLIO
From the conviction that language
students must take responsibility for
their own learning and be as active as
possible in setting objectives and working
to achieve them, they build an E-Portfolio
using Drive where they store all their
projects. In this way they can see their
improvement in the acquisition of the
second language.

9. ICT ROOMS
We’ve got 3 ICT rooms
where students use to go at least
once a week in every subject to
work with computers, using
different resources . They use
Internet to look for information,
and prepare their projects and
presentations with the help of the
teacher.

10. CLIL
It’s the methodology we use
through which we try to integrate
content and language learning. With
this methodology every teacher in
their subject (Maths, Natural
Sciences, Social Sciences, Art, P.E...)
explains the contents of the subject
in the second language (English). The
students are getting a double
information: the contents of the
subject itself and at the same time
they are using the L2 so they
improve in the use of the the second
language. Each teacher creates its
own material using this methodology.

11. BLOGS
We have two blogs in our school:
www.elblogdelasbanderas.blogspot.com
www.bibliobanderas.blogspot.com

12. OTHER TOOLS
Teachers use different resources to
make our work more dynamic and
attractive to students and try to
update with the new technologies.
We usually use different
applications such as: Prezi, Powtoon,
Zoho Creations, Discuto,
Symbaloo….

13. COOPERATIVE LEARNING
It consists on a classroom
organization where students
work in groups or teams to
help each other learn.
They also make use of ICT
tools such as computers to
seek for the information
required by the teacher.
It reinforces student’s
autonomy and self-confidence
and they work their social
competence.

14. HALL EXPOSITIONS
It’s very important for us to show our
students’ work. For that reason we take
their works out of the classroom and use
them as an important material to organize
expositions in the hall. All the Educative
Community (teachers, parents, staff…) can
see and enjoy with them.
Of course,we also make use of the ICT in
this section as these expositions are
supported by two screens we’ve got in the
hall, which are used to present information
relative to the main topic of the exposition
(European Languages Day, Halloween,
Christmas, Peace Day, Women’s Day….)

15. TO SUM UP...
Society and its habits have
changed and consequently
education has also changed.
If the main goal of a teacher is
to be able to attract the
students’ attention, in this new
era this is only possible with the
introduction of ICT tools in the
classroom.
Now the challenge is to use
them with CREATIVITY and
INNOVATION.