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home > Media services > News > iClass validation workshops in Hungary and Poland iClass validation workshops in Hungary and Poland The last two validation workshops organised as part of the iClass project took place on 31 May 2008 in Budapest, Hungary and on 4 June 2008 in Toruń, Poland. About 40 teachers attended both events which aimed to validate how the learning platform, developed as part of the project, enhances Self Regulated Personalised Learning (SRPL). SRPL is the pedagogy at the core of iClass to promote personalisation in teaching and learning and empower learners to make choices and create their own learning paths based on their preferences and character.The Hungarian workshop took place at the Eötvös Loránd University’s Centre for Multimedia and Educational Technology (MULTIPED). Activities were coordinated by the head of the centre, Andrea Kárpáti, UNESCO Chair for ICT in Education. It was attended by 18 teachers representing a mix of primary and secondary schools teachers and subject taught. Two trainers/validators participated in the workshop: Shiri Hagani from Ben Gurion University and Paul Gerhard from European Schoolnet (EUN), with support from Andrea Kárpáti. Additionally, Petra Perényi welcomed the participants of the iClass workshop on behalf of the Educational Authority representing the Ministry of Education and Culture and explained programmes developed at the ministerial level to support the pedagogically useful integration of ICT in education. Among the comments collected at the validation workshop included the need to introduce the iClass system with great care in schools. It may require a substantial institutional and pedagogical change. Teachers are still shy to open up learning paths and need to experiment with the degree of openness of their teaching styles. In Poland, the workshop took place at the Pedagogical Library in Toruń and was attended by 18 teachers. It was the fifth such workshop organised by European Schoolnet. Maria Sliwinska of the International Centre for Information Management System and Services (ICIMSS) provided logistical as well as pedagogical support during the event. Participants at the workshop included primary and secondary teachers from general education and vocational school. There was a representative of a teacher training institution as well as a teacher who has experience in writing school manuals. The workshop was also attended by a representative from the Ministry of Education, Janusz Krupa, who introduced the workshop and gave a brief overview of the policies to support ICT at school in Poland. Teachers at the workshop pointed out that the system did not seem adapted to the Polish system which is based on 45-minutes teaching units. The representative of ministry pointed out that iClass could precisely change this pattern and develop among teachers the sense of having a longer scope and see the ‘big picture’ of lesson planning. EUN is coordinating validation activities as part of the iClass project and organised several validation workshops in Austria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Spain. More than 80 teachers and 20 students participated in these events. A booklet explaining the project results was produced by European Schoolnet. It was distributed at both workshops. www.iclass.info http://iclass.wikispaces.com http://insight.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/ school_innovation/learnenv/iclass.htm (book available at the bottom of the story)
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