Calvin adere ao Magalhães do Plano Tecnológico

9 razões para utilizar a Tecnologia na Educação

1. Expansion of time and place

2. Depth of Understanding

3. Learning vs. Teaching

4. New media for self-expression

5. Collaboration

6. Going Global

7. Individual pacing and sequence

8. Weight

9. Personal Productivity

In “Nine Excellent Reasons for Technology in Education”, John Page

Acreditação de Avaliadores Externos dos CNO – Listas de admissão e exclusão

Foi publicado hoje o Anúncio com as propostas de admissão e de exclusão dos candidatos a Avaliadores Externos dos CNO- Centros de Novas Oportunidades.

6 conselhos TIC para Professores

1. Encourage teachers to familiarize themselves with the Internet by signing up for e-newsletters, reading blogs, or building a Web site. The more comfortable they become with the Internet, the more likely they will be to incorporate it into their lessons.

2. Suggest that teachers establish learning communities with their colleagues to share resources and tips. Pooling online resources will save teachers time and give them a foothold when they begin searching for information.

3. Have an on-site staff member available to help teachers with new technology. Teachers are more likely to use the techniques they’ve learned during professional-development classes if they have a mentor to encourage them.

4. Provide strong leadership and a clear vision of what the role of technology should be in the classroom. Without a goal in mind, technology often becomes an obstacle rather than a helpful tool.

5. Embed technology into the curriculum, rather than using it as an add-on to pre-existing lesson plans. Technology should be used when it fits with the lesson, not just for its own sake.

6. Assure teachers not to be intimidated by students, or younger teachers, who may know more about technology than they do. Instead, encourage them to treat this knowledge as a learning opportunity for the whole class or faculty.

In “Digital Training”, Katie Ash

Os professores portugueses têm de melhorar as competências TIC

Segundo o Benchmarking Access and Use of ICT in European Schools, de Setembro de 2006, Portugal ocupa o 22º lugar na Europa25 pelo que tem de aumentar drasticamente as competências TIC dos professores:

“With 36% of teachers having the necessary ICT skills and motivation but lacking ICT access, the situation in Portugal is much worse than the European average (21%). The same applies to the very large group of teachers who are motivated to use ICT in class but who lack the necessary ICT access and competence. With 15% this group is three times above the EU25 average. Finally, Portugal is also faced with a group of 8% of teachers with ICT access and motivation but lack of ICT competence, a figure which is almost twice as high as the European average. As a consequence the ICT readiness of Portuguese teachers is very low with the country ranking only 22nd in Europe.”

in “Use of Computers and the Internet in Schools in Europe - Portugal”

Qual é o seu estilo de aprendizagem?

Faça o teste de David Kolb, traduzido e adaptado por Luís Aguilar da Universidade de Montreal no Canadá, e descubra qual é o seu estilo de aprendizagem: activista, reflexivo, teórico ou pragmático.