Presentation "Teachers’ views on quality of educational resources existing in Scientix repository" by Dr.Gina Mihai

1. Teachers’ views on quality of educational
resources existing in
Scientix repository
The work presented in this document/ workshop is supported by the
European Commission’s FP7 programme – project Scientix 2 (Grant
agreement N. 337250), coordinated by European Schoolnet (EUN). The
content of this document/workshop is the sole responsibility of the organizer
and it does not represent the opinion of the European Commission, and the
Commission is not responsible for any use that might be made of information
contained herein.
Dr. Gina Mihai
International Conference “New Perspective in Science Education”
20/03/2015, Florence

2. European Schoolnet (EUN)
Promoting the use of ICT
and digital technologies
in the classroom
Promoting the European
dimension in schools
Improving the quality of
education in Europe
Network of
31 Ministries
of Education in Europe
Three areas of interest:
 services to schools,
 research and innovation,
 sharing of learning resources

3. 3
EUN STEM Projects

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European science and maths projects

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http://scientix.eu
&
maths &
engineering & technology

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Scientix: 2010 - 2015
Conference 2014Portal
(disseminate projects)
Scientix live
Scientix
observatory
Collaboration
between projects
National Contact
Points &
teachers’ panel

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scientix.eu
• Navigation: 8 languages (en,
fr, de, pl, it, es, ro, nl)
• Sections:
o Projects
o Resources
o News
o Events
o Community
o Conference
o Scientix Live
o In your country
o Observatory
o Newsletter + Email digest
o Social Media

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Projects: e.g. Quantum SpinOff
(http://www.quantumspinoff.eu/)

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scientix.eu
• Navigation: 8 languages (en,
fr, de, pl, it, es, ro, nl)
• Sections:
o Projects
o Resources
o News
o Events
o Community
o Conference
o Scientix Live
o In your country
o Observatory
o Newsletter + Email digest
o Social Media

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Over 800 STEM resources

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Over 800 STEM resources

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Translation on demand

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Evaluation and rating of educational resources
SEVEN COMPETITIONS BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 2014 – OCTOBER 2015

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Categories of resources
Evaluation and rating of educational resources
Category 1: STEM teaching materials
for teachers
Category 2: STEM teaching material
addressed to students
Category 3: STEM reports

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Evaluation and rating of educational resources
Set of criteria for evaluation
 Pedagogical Value
 Curricular integration
 Clarity of presentation
 Possibility of Deepening knowledge
 Does the resource offer the possibility to use technology in
an innovative way
 Is the resource free to use for all

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Evaluation and rating of educational resources
Teachers’ views on the quality of resources
Resources in languages
they don’t speak
Scientix has a Translation on Demand
service, and teachers can request one
of the available languages (if CC allows)
Project Reports don’t seem
addressed to teachers
On the other hand, Teachers agree
they prefer written reports instead of
video, to search fast the content they
are interested and avoid the rest of the
document
Some resources are only
one page long and too
simple
This gives freedom to the teacher to
use it without modifying it and if they
want to connect them they can find
other resources that explain what to
do with each of the sheets

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Evaluation and rating of educational resources
Teachers’ views on the quality of resources
There is no need on handcrafts and
hands-on experiments to use ICT
Then, ICT could be used to present the
activity, demonstrational videos or
present results
Teachers prefer “ready to use”
teaching materials, with lesson
plans and activities
Teachers’ lack of time has been
reported in many different occasions
Evaluating resources has helped our teachers to:
• Learn new ways of teaching
• Discover new teaching materials to use in their classes
• Discover new projects on STEM education they didn’t know before
• Be interested about the results and the different incomes from the
different projects

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Scientix Resources Awards
 Up to four resources awarded
 Awarded resources: promoted on the Scientix
portal, newsletters, at Scientix events and during
the media campaigns.
 Winners: two per awarded resources invited to
different face to face events organized by Scientix

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http://scientix.eu
@scientix_eu
• Request
translations of
teaching
materials.
• Participate in
forums.
• Join teachers
directory.

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Science Programme Manager // Scientix project manager
Àgueda Gras-Velázquez (agueda.gras@eun.org)
More information
Web Editor // Scientix portal manager
Přemysl Velek (premysl.velek@eun.org)
Project Administrator // Scientix teachers panel coordinator
Marina Jiménez Iglesias (marina.jimenez@eun.org)
Project Administrator // Scientix portal resources coordinator
Victor J. Perez-Rubio (victor.perez@eun.org)
Science Projects Officer // Scientix project deputy manager
Gina Mihai (gina.mihai@eun.org)
Project Coordinator// Scientix NCPs financial manager
Ioanna Leontaraki (ioanna.leontaraki@eun.org)