The document summarizes trends in education and digital assessment tools. It discusses key aspects of the Finnish education system including equal access to high-quality education, teacher autonomy, and emphasis on arts and physical education. It also highlights trends like increasing use of digital tests and tools, as well as challenges around improving digital literacy. Several digital tools for assessments, interactive learning, and collaboration are presented.

1. Trends in Education and
Digital Assessment Tools
The ANGE project, Erasmus+
Novida, Loimaa, Finland 20.3.2018
Matleena Laakso
Twitter: @matleenalaakso
Blog: www.matleenalaakso.fi/p/in-english.html
Picture: jobhaug CC0, pixabay.com

2. Ateneum – Finnish National Gallery
Picture: Htm CC BY-SA, commons.wikimedia.org

3. Education
System in
Finland
Picture:
Finnish National
Agency for Education:
www.oph.fi/english/education
_system_education_policy

4. Some key factors of Finnish education
This slide is copy from Sanna Ruhalahti’s presentation:
www.slideshare.net/SannaRuhalahti/finnish-education-presentation-cavan-institute/7
• All have equal access to high-quality education
• Its free and publicly funded
• Rights to educational support
• Lifelong learning - no dead ends
• Educational autonomy and local authorities
• Quality assurance based on steering, no controlling
• Highly educated teaching personnel
• Good and well supported education & training

5. What is so special about
Finnish education?
Finnish National Board of Education 2016:
http://www.oph.fi/download/180148_Compulsory_education_in_Finland.pdf
• Teaching is a very popular profession
• No inspections
• No national exams
• No teacher evaluation
• Teachers feel valued by society
• Short school days
• The amount of homework is low
• Number of lessons in art, music and physical education have been
increased

6. Education in Finland:
three reasons why we are so good 
Pictures: Matleena Laakso and pixabay, CC0

7. Continuing teacher education
is encouraged
See for example: www.cimo.fi/instancedata/prime_product_julkaisu/cimo/
embeds/cimowwwstructure/27467_Finnish_education_in_a_nuttshell.pdf
At most levels of education teachers are required to participate in in-
service training every year. There is wide variety of free trainings for
teachers and they participate eagerly.

8. padlet.com
• Make beautiful boards, documents, and webpages that are easy to
read and contribute to.
• Tool for collaboration and sharing (”digital flipchart”)
• For text, images, videos, voice, drawing, links,..
• Examples of digital stories: padlet.com/matlaakso/digitarinat

9. padlet.com/matlaakso/ange

10. The NMC Horizon Reports
The New Media Consortium (NMC) is a
community of hundreds of leading
universities, colleges, museums, and
research centers.
The NMC Horizon Project explores the
trends, challenges, and technology
developments likely to have an impact on
teaching, learning, and creative inquiry.
•Horizon-reports:
www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon
•Twitter: @nmcorg
•YouTube:
www.youtube.com/user/NewMediaConsortium

11. Key Trends Accelerating Technology
Adoption in K–12 Education
NMC/CoSN Horizon Report > 2017 K–12 Edition (CC BY):
cdn.nmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017-nmc-cosn-horizon-report-K12-advance.pdf
(STEAM = science, technology,
engineering, arts and mathematics)

12. Interactive videos (EDpuzzle H5P,..)
h5p.org/interactive-video and www.matleenalaakso.fi/2015/04/videotehtavia-edpuzzlen-avulla.html

13. Trends: cdn.nmc.org/media/2017-nmc-technology-outlook-nordic-schools-EN.pdf
Digital Tests

14. Significant Challenges Impeding
Technology Adoption in K–12 Education
NMC/CoSN Horizon Report > 2017 K–12 Edition (CC BY):
cdn.nmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017-nmc-cosn-horizon-report-K12-advance.pdf

15. Esityksessä UShumor.com luvalla
ushumor.net/funny-comics-in-2013/funny-comics-in-2013
Authentic learning experiences

16. Improving Digital Literacy
- new category of competence

17. Challenges: cdn.nmc.org/media/2017-nmc-technology-outlook-nordic-schools-EN.pdf

18. Timers
www.online-stopwatch.com/classroom-timers

19. Important Developments in Educational
Technology for K–12 Education 2017
NMC/CoSN Horizon Report > 2017 K–12 Edition (CC BY):
cdn.nmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017-nmc-cosn-horizon-report-K12-advance.pdf

20. Virtual and
augmented reality
Kuva: Timo Ilomäki CC BY

21. VR content
Available in YouTube,
Google Street View,
Cardboard apps…
With free Cardboard Camera
app you can take 360 photos
with your mobile device.

22. Google Expeditions (iOS, Android)
edu.google.com/expeditions/#how-it-works
Field trips to virtually anywhere – where will you take your class?

24. Robotics, machine learning
and artificial intelligence (AI) is here
• What do we need to learn?
• What the robots and AI can not do in the next decades?
Kuva: geralt CC0, pixabay.com

25. Finnish Schools on the Move
liikkuvakoulu.fi/english

26. kahoot.it

27. kahoot.it
An easy tool for tests and activating conversation in the classroom
•Only teacher needs to sign in (kahoot.com).
•You or your students can easely create your own quizzes
(private/public).
•There are millions of public quizzes you can use or dublicate and
modify.

28. Create your own Kahoot
Sign in and create your own Kahoot
or dublicate (and modify) a Kahoot from Public Kahoots.

29. quizizz.com

30. Create your own Quiz
• Sign in  Create
• Play live or homework

31. quizlet.com
You tried outQuizlet yesterday!

32. Quizlet is good both for
practising and testing vocabulary
• Eight types of tasks/tests and games
• Pc and mobile (iOS, Android)
• Quizlet Live (12+ terms)
Flags: quizlet.com/199931089/flags-flash-cards/

33. Diagrams: quizlet.com/259263357/match

34. Creating a new Quizlet
Sign in  Create  Set title  Write the words (pairs) and choose
language. It can also be mathematics or chemistry. 
Choose who can edit and view quizizz.  Create
You can also use
pictures (Flickr, CC)

35. pixabay.com/en & pixabay.com/fr
• All images and videos are released free of copyrights under Creative
Commons CC0 (except those with Shutterstock watermark).
• You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for
anything you like, even in commercial applications.

36. answergarden.ch
Create a new AnswerGarden just by writing your theme or question
and then clicking Create. All other options are voluntary.
No signing in.
Create

37. wordart.com
IMPORT = text copied elsewhere
ADD = single words
Create
word
cloud

38. 1. Google Docs/Drive
2. Word
3. PowerPoint
4. YouTube
5. Google Search
6. Excel
7. Wikipedia
8. Prezi
9. Twitter
10. Kahoot
Top 200 Tools for Education 2017
Jane Hart: c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/rankings
11. WordPress
12. Facebook
13. Dropbox
14. WhatsApp
15. OneNote
16. Audacity
17. Moodle
18. Padlet
19. Canva
20. Google Scholar
Tutustu 200 parhaan
työkalun esittelyyn:
c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools

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