Title
Like a (School of) Fish in Water (or ICT-Enhanced Skills in Action)
Abstract
The paper presents pilot experiences related to an educational methodology developed within the European Innovative Teacher (I*Teach) project for building ICT-enhanced skills [1]. The methodology is presented in the context of a workshop for teachers in mathematics and informatics with a special focus on enhancing presentation skills. The authors share their experience in treating the very workshop as a project with specific stages - analyzing the audience’s interests, developing a presentation scenario around a leading metaphor in harmony with the setting, distributing different roles among the presenters, involving the audience in an active reasoning and sharing. Thus the workshop has demonstrated at a meta-level how the collective intelligence of teachers could be harnessed in action. The main message is: such an approach makes teachers feel like co-creators of the I*Teach project´s ideas and teachers need only a bit of praise or encouragement to recognize themselves as innovative teachers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-69924-8_9
ISSEP '08 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and Perspectives: Informatics Education - Supporting Computational Thinking
Keywords
DocType
Volume
ict-enhanced skills,different role,main message,ict-enhanced skill,presentation scenario,presentation skill,educational methodology,collective intelligence,european innovative teacher,leading metaphor,active reasoning,active learning
Conference
5090
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
2
0.77
References 
Authors
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Evgenia Sendova1155.73
Eliza Stefanova2407.94
Nikolina Nikolova383.95
Eugenia Kovatcheva452.22