FUTURE CLASSROOMCREATIVITY AND INNOVATION

STARTING POINTIES Las Banderas is a Bilingual school belonging to the ICT schools net in Andalucía. This ICT project implies the use of ICT resources in our daily labour and takes advantage of them in our lessons. It encourages student cooperation and the learning process is more active. Students can get a fast feedback and it emphasizes time on task. And one of the most important aspects is that it respects the diverse talents and ways of learning.

DIGITAL BOARDS

We have got digital boards in our

classrooms.

Teachers use the whiteboards as a

way to project their lessons. We use

digital books, provided by the editorials

but we usually create our own materials

(didactic units, presentations…)

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DIGITAL BOARDS

Students use them to make

oral presentations of their projects.

In this way they reinforce their

speaking skill.

It’s very positive because they

know that their projects are going

to be seen by their partners and

they do their best

EMAIL

We usually give our students

homework through email and they

send it back to us by mail too. It’s a

new concept.They are used to this

new way of communication and

interaction with their teachers.

GOOGLE DRIVEWe encourage our students to use

it. For example, they create their own files in Drive where they can store all their projects of every subject. In this way they realize the concept of the ‘cloud’. They can also revise their projects and see their improvement.

All the teachers at our school share information through Google Drive: information about students, activities, ....

TABLETS

Since last year, all the teachers use a

tablet ( given by the school) to facilitate

the use of the Seneca Portal: it’s a virtual

portal made by the Junta de Andalucía

and in it we can find all the data of our

students.

E-PORTFOLIOFrom the conviction that language

students must take responsibility for

their own learning and be as active as

possible in setting objectives and

working to achieve them, they build an

E-Portfolio using Drive where they store

all their projects. In this way they can

see their improvement in the

acquisition of the second language.

ICT ROOMS

We’ve got 3 ICT rooms

where students use to go at least

once a week in every subject to

work with computers, using

different resources . They use

Internet to look for information,

and prepare their projects and

presentations with the help of

the teacher.

CLILIt’s the methodology we use

through which we try to integrate content and language learning. With this methodology every teacher in their subject (Maths, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Art, P.E...) explains the contents of the subject in the second language (English). The students are getting a double information: the contents of the subject itself and at the same time they are using the L2 so they improve in the use of the the second language. Each teacher creates its own material using this methodology.

BLOGSWe have two blogs in our school:

www.elblogdelasbanderas.blogspot.com

www.bibliobanderas.blogspot.com

OTHER TOOLSTeachers use different resources to

make our work more dynamic and

attractive to students and try to

update with the new technologies.

We usually use different

applications such as: Prezi, Powtoon,

Zoho Creations, Discuto,

Symbaloo….

COOPERATIVE LEARNINGIt consists on a classroom organization where students work in groups or teams to help each other learn.They also make use of ICT tools such as computers to seek for the information required by the teacher.It reinforces student’s autonomy and self-confidence and they work their social competence.

HALL EXPOSITIONSIt’s very important for us to show our students’ work. For that reason we take their works out of the classroom and use them as an important material to organize expositions in the hall. All the Educative Community (teachers, parents, staff…) can see and enjoy with them.Of course,we also make use of the ICT in this section as these expositions are supported by two screens we’ve got in the hall, which are used to present information relative to the main topic of the exposition (European Languages Day, Halloween, Christmas, Peace Day, Women’s Day….)

TO SUM UP...Society and its habits have changed and consequently education has also changed.If the main goal of a teacher is to be able to attract the students’ attention, in this new era this is only possible with the introduction of ICT tools in the classroom.Now the challenge is to use them with CREATIVITY and INNOVATION.