Addressing the differences among learners is a crucial factor to impact on their school performance and educational achievements. Thus, there is always the need to develop new approaches and strategies for differentiation in order to favour the inclusion of each learner in education.
New technologies as tablets and other mobile devices can give a great support to teachers in the development and implementation of these methodologies.
The TABLIO team is supporting Teacher Design Teams (TDTs), groups of teachers, in the different partner organisations’ countries in developing, implementing and evaluating new pedagogical approaches on differentiation through the use of mobile devices. In TDTs, teachers will collaborate in a creative space in which each participant has his/her role in developing a new pedagogical arrangement to address the mentioned challenges.
Representatives of the partner organisations met in Istanbul (Turkey) on the 12th and 13th December to update on the developments of the project at local and national level as well as to share the first results of the TDTs.
We have been discussing the challenges identified by the Teacher Design Teams and some of the approaches and apps that could be used to address them.
Among the challenges identified, there are:
- Improving students’ speaking skills;
- Increasing involvement of students with learning and cognitive disabilities;
- Increasing motivation of students;
- Tracking the learning path of students;
- Increasing autonomy of students and favour self-learning;
- Development of problem solving skills.
We had the opportunity to exchange ideas and knowledge on how to support and advice the TDTs, design the pedagogical arragements and on the next steps of their work.
TABLIO – Tablets for classroom differentiation and inclusion is a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme, Key Action 2: Strategic Partnerships for school education aiming at promoting the use of tablets and other mobile devices to support teachers of primary and secondary education in the implementation of differentiation strategies in schools.
The project involves 7 organizations:
- PXL University College – coordinator (Belgium),
- Istanbul University (Turkey),
- INUK (Slovenia),
- HAN University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands),
- North West Regional College (United Kingdom),
- TELL Consult (Netherlands),
- CESIE (Italy).
If you are interested in knowing more about the project, contact school@cesie.org
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