About experience with InGenious

the 3rd summer school, Split

About experience with

InGenious

Svetlana Dotsenko, ICT Manager,

Lasnamae Gymnasium, HITSA

trainer, Estonia


No matter what people tell you,

words and ideas can change the world.

Robin Williams

Education is the most powerful weapon

which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela


About school

• Lasnamae Gymnasium was Ingenious pilot school during 3 years (2011-2014)

• Number of students – more than 800

• Age of students – from 7 to 18

• 6 computer labs

• School Network more than 120 PC

• Internet access and multimedia projector in all classrooms

• Languages – Estonian, English, German, French, Finnish, Japanese, Russian

• E-learning (Moodle, VIKO)

• PBL, problem-solving and student’s research works

• School is a training center for teachers from all Tallinn


• Main aim of school – to prepare students

to real life

• Aim of InGenious – to connect school with

industry and science, to help school

decrease distance between school’s tasks

and requirements of real life.


For teachers

InGenious gave teachers great opportunities for professional growth:

• Communities of practice,

• Workshops,

• Webinars,

• Sharing of experience with other teachers

• MOOC courses

• Visits to European schools

• Visits to factories


My account


Inspiration

• workshops in Copenhagen, Bratislava,

Setubal, Tours

• Summer schools in Istambul, Barcelona,

Split


Visits to schools

• Visit to school is a very strong motivation

tool for teachers.

• I was happy to visit Hellerup school in

Copenhagen and in Setubal.

• I have got new ideas about learning

process, teacher’s and student’s materials,

about future of classroom.


Visit to Hellerup school

in Copenhagen


Visit to school in Setubal


MOOC courses

&projects

• Future Classroom Scenarios

• Innovative Practices for Engaging STEM Teaching (European School Academy)

• SMILE - Social Media in learning and education

• DESIRE - Disseminating Educational Science, Innovation and Research in Europe)

• Student voice (TigEd)


How did I apply my new

knowledge?

• I have added new resources, new

materials to my course for students “Free

software using”

• I have used Popplet, Tricider and other

resources in my training for teachers -

Research learning, which was held in my

school in June.

• I have used it in project’s work also.


Visit to Portocel Soporcel Factory

(Portugal)


Visit to STmicroelectronics factory

(Tours, France)


Benefit from visits

• Thanks to those visits to factories, I was

informed, how factories organize

collaboration with schools and universities,

which career is available for women in

industry, about new technologies, about

saving environment and shared my new

knowledge with my students.


Student’s achievements

• Xperimania

competition II, 2013

• Sustainable mobility

• Kirill Bystrov,

• Cars of tomorrow

• 2nd prize


Student’s achievements

• Xperimania,

competition III, 2013

• First prize,

• Sofia Kustova,

• The smart energy

house


Student’s favorite practices

• DeforestAction (Microsoft)

• Collaboration with industry and companies

• Science: where can it take you?

• VOLVO games


DeforestAction

• DeforestACTION is a global movement of

youth and schools taking action to stop

deforestation.

• Students joined this growing global

movement!


DeforestAction

• I was very excited to take part in DeforestAction – I was in rainforests in Malaysia (Borneo) and Indonesia. I have very interesting pictures about my visit to rainforests.

• I decided to involve young students, age 10-11. My presentation had a great success in this class, a lot of questions from students. I have used Microsoft materials also. Students made drawings, the main topic was – saving forests. An exhibition of student’s drawings was organized. Results were published in Facebook, where our school has a web-page.


DeforestAction

• Students from 10th grade were involved

too in this practice. They have made

posters about Earth Day, saving

rainforests and environment.

• Total about 75 students

• This action is great. It gives to students

opportunity to change the world, to

increase social responsibility.


About science and future

Science: where can it take you?

This practice was adopted for computer science.

• 1 step – excursion for teachers to SKYPE office, sharing with students

• 2 step – visit to the Innovation and business center Mektory (it was created recently on the base of Technical University)

• 3 step - visit to school SKYPE representative –young and successful Quality Labs engineer Toomas Maks







Meeting with SKYPE

representative

• It was a very

motivating tool for our

students.

• Meeting duration was

about 2 h.

• Students asked a lot

of questions.

• Girls were very active

in discussions





What InGenious means

for me and my students?• I – Innovations

• N – No negative emotions, only positive

• G – Genious (chance for students become Genious)

• E – Enthusiasm, experiment

• N – New experience, New knowledge

• I – Inspiration

• U – to open Unknown things

• O - Outstanding results in teaching and learning

• S - Smart


Memorable moments





We InGenious!


Thank you for

your attention!

• Thank you, InGenious!

• Thank you Croatian hosts for your

hospitality!

• Hvala Vam na gostoprimstvu!

• We hope to continue our fruitful

collaboration with European

SchoolNet!