This document discusses the importance and benefits of integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) into education. It argues that while traditional teacher-centered instruction may have met yesterday's needs, today's students require new skills to live and work in the digital age. ICT can enhance learning by making it more engaging, accessible and tailored to individual students' needs. The document outlines specific ways ICT can promote critical thinking, project-based learning and support for students with disabilities. It acknowledges barriers some teachers face in adopting ICT but stresses that not doing so will leave students ill-prepared for tomorrow. It proposes increased funding, training and support for teachers to effectively integrate ICT into lessons.

1. 17-20 OCTOBER 2016
THESSALONIKI - GREECE
EPAL KALAMARIAS

2. Yesterday
Learning based only
on Teacher….
I expect you all to be independent,
innovative, critical thinkers who
will do exactly as I say!

3. Teacher was the only source of
information for students

4. But, is it still
today??
Maybe, Yesterday this was
enough to satisfy our
children’s educational needs

5. Can our kids of the 21st
century be satisfied learners
by the old fashioned way?
or we just bore them to
death …
and we open them the door to
early school drop out?

6. We owe to teach our students HOW
to learn not WHAT.
Because who knows what they will
need to know 10 years from now???

7. How can I trust your information when you are
using such outdated technology?

8. It is obvious that if we want to teach to children that
live in the New Information Age we need to bring New
Information Technologies in Education

9. WHY?
Because:
• A new society requires new skills
• ICT enhance productivity
• ICT provide quality learning
• ICT attract students and raise interest
• ICT get students involved

10. WHY?
• ICT open a window to vast information
• ICT open a window to communication
• ICT provide distance learning
• ICT diminish distances and reduce time

11. What are the benefits for students?
ICT help:
•Avoid discretion
•Raise self esteem
•Foster concentration
•Develop methodical way of thinking

12. What are the benefits for students?
ICT help:
•Promote critical thinking
•Promote project based learning
•Support multiple intelligences
•Facilitate students with disabilities

13. What are the benefits for teachers?
•Organization
•Evaluation
•Information
•Virtualization

14. Do you remember Bloom’s taxonomy for
education?
Bloom's Taxonomy was
created in 1956 under the
leadership of educational
psychologist Dr Benjamin
Bloom in order to promote
higher forms of thinking in
education

15. EXAMPLES OF HOW ICT CAN PROMOTE
THIS HIGHER FORMS OF THINKING…

16. But if ICT offer so much to education why
not all teachers adopt it?
• Lack of equipment
• Lack of training
• Fear of technology use
• Fear to leave the comfort zone of the already
known

17. To what extend do
teachers’ profiles in
Europe make a
difference to the
use of ICT in
lessons?

18. What is the picture in Greece compared with the
average picture in Europe?
Students per computer
7
16
Percentage of school
computers in labs
IWB per students
70%58%
1 / 111
1 / 500

19. ICT IN OUR SCHOOL
• 6 Computer labs
• 6 projectors
• 4 laptops
• 11 labs with
projectors
• 1 Smartboard
• VDSL 50Mbps
Equipment: Software Examples:
• Moodle Platform
• Kahoot
• Plickers
• EclipseCrossword

20. WE SHOULD NOT FORGET THAT
NOT BEING ABLE TO USE ICT TODAY, WILL
MAKE OUR STUDENTS OPERATIONALLY
ILLITERAL TOMORROW……

21. PROPOSALS
• Ministries of Education should provide funding to
equip schools
• Seminars of how to apply ICT in Educational Process
should be organized
• Training and facilitation to teachers to use ICT

22. Because tomorrow started from Yesterday,
when in 400 bc Socrates said:
“I will only ask him. I will not
teach him. He will investigate
with me and if you notice me
talking or explaining it would
be for him to express his
opinion.”

23. 1st EPAL Kalamarias