Innovation class
Going digital in a smart way
A course by Diana Ionita, Gabriel Brezoiu
The course aims to provide a framework for educational practitioners, including ways to effectively integrate and use digital tools in each step of the learning process – planning, teaching and learning, assessment-, with a focus on the impact at the individual and community levels. The course will be based on non-formal education methodology. Our purpose is to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal no 4, which aims to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” by 2030. Innovation class: going digital in a smart way course integrates the key points of “The Education 2030 Framework for Action”: inclusion and equity to ensure that no one is left behind, qualitative improvements of the learning outcomes and strengthening technology and innovation in the classroom.
Module 1 – Innovation in the classroom
Aims at raising awareness on what is innovation, what is its role in education and how to foster it, reflecting on the blended learning model.
Trainer: Diana Ionita, Gabriel Brezoiu
Module 2 – Integrating digital tools in the planning process
The module focuses on the role of digital tools in planning the teaching-learning process, how to include absent students in the learning process through digital tools, how to integrate students with disabilities in the learning process through digital tools and how to support students outside the classroom through digital tools.
Trainer: Diana Ionita, Gabriel Brezoiu
Module 3 – Upgrading teaching: Bringing digital tools in the classroom
The module capacitates participants with skills to understand WHEN to use digital tools in the classroom, and the WHYs behind them, as well as to share best practices.
Trainer: Diana Ionita, Gabriel Brezoiu
Module 4 – Click – Connect – Teach Practice
This activity will offer everyone an opportunity to practice activity online and offline in the community.
Trainer: Diana Ionita, Gabriel Brezoiu
Module 5 – Evaluation 2.0: Using digital tools in the assessment process
The module focuses on collecting and interpreting data from students online, enabling self – evaluation, initial, formative and final evaluation, qualitative and quantitative evaluation online, communicating the results and designing solutions for improvement.
Trainer: Diana Ionita, Gabriel Brezoiu
Trainers
Diana IONIȚĂ has academic studies in Communications with a focus on intercultural discourse (BA and MA) and complementary training in Advanced Facilitation, Psycho-pedagogy, Global Education, or Education for Development in a multicultural environment. She has been actively involved in youth work since 2010, volunteering or working for various NGOs such as GEYC, European Youth Press, United Nations Volunteers, Youth for Exchange and Understanding, as a communications coordinator, project manager and/or trainer. In 2012 she participated in a 9 months EVS project in Lorca, Spain, at Cazalla Intercultural Association, where, besides other activities, she supported the team with organizing and facilitating pre-departure and on-arrival trainings, as well as the future volunteers to find, choose and apply for the most appropriate projects. Currently, she is also working as an online facilitator and coach with Soliya and Sharing Perspectives, within the Erasmus+ Virtual framework.
Gabriel BREZOIU, Gabriel is a trainer, youth worker, social media expert, and project manager working in the youth field since 2007. With a formal education background in project management and non-formal training in over 15 countries, he is passionate about travelling, meeting people from other cultures, and activating young people in various ways. As a non-formal education trainer in entrepreneurship, Gabriel is specialized in using design thinking, Business Canvas Model, creative expression, and digital tools methodologies to enhance young people and youth workers' entrepreneurial spirit and to support them to transform their ideas into actions. Since 2010 he initiated the GEYC Community, one of the first digital youth work practices at the European level where the community members are connected to various personal and professional opportunities (over 1000 opportunities every year are provided) functioning as a networking hub for young professionals and youth workers. In his role as General Manager of GEYC, Gabriel is supporting and coaching his colleagues in developing their intrapreneurial potential. As the president of PRISMA European Network, he is lobbying towards national and European authorities to create a new support framework for entrepreneurial education and the development of the entrepreneurial eco-system in the European Union and beyond.
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