FUTURE CLASSROOM: APPS FOR EDUCATION

The challenges of today´s school are increasingly demanding for nowadays teachers. 

Schools compete on several levels with the internet, digital apps and other sharing systems of communication and knowledge. Students of today are part of a digital generation very different from their teachers, and because of that, they learn everything in a distinct way. 

This course aims to update teachers in order to overcome this challenge and place students in the center of learning by doing what they know best: using digital apps. 

Learning Outcomes: 

• Use online tools to support and improve innovative teaching and learning methods, in order to motivate and encourage students; 

• Use mobile devices as an important tool for teaching and learning activities; 

• Explore the “ best of” educational apps, not only in the classroom but also in every school activity; 

• Explore active methodologies within and during the classroom; 

• Experiment educational apps to improve teaching and learning activities; 

• Improve ICT skills; 

• Create/continue to implement an action plan to make schools and communities more sustainable; 

• Apply and/or adapt different concepts, ideas, and teaching methodologies to the ones practised in participants’ home country; 

• Facilitate experience and cultural exchanges between European participants and Portuguese teaching personnel, which results in a fruitful international experience; 

• Enhance communicative competencies in English and social skills; 

• Promote intercultural awareness; 

• Learn more about Portugal’s and Porto’s culture, heritage and society; 

• Identify & share good practices that can be implemented at a local level. 

Activities I have carried out during movility period: 

• "The best of” apps for education - how to prepare our classes in an 

• innovating way  

• Team building/Team Up  

• Apps for collaborative learning: Making learning more fun  

• Introduction to Padlet 

• Practical training: Padlet 

• Apps for all subjects (Chemistry, Geography, Science…) - how to learn 

and evaluate knowledge  

• Apps - Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality  

• Practical training: VR headsets  

• Video's potential (Smartphone and/or Tablet)  

• AI Assistants: ✓3D Bear ✓Quiver ✓Class VR ✓Copilot ✓Gemini ✓Magic School ✓Suno, ✓Riffusion ✓Gamma ✓Question Well ✓EdPuzzle ✓Almanack ✓Character AI. 

• Group work  

• Create your own video  

• Presentation  

• Course roundup & review Learning outcomes' validation  

• Certification Ceremony 

• Social and Cultural Heritage Activities 

As a result of my mobility activity... 

I have a better understanding of the diversity in my society. 

I am more committed to work against discrimination, intolerance, xenophobia and racism. 

I am more interested in participating in the life of my local community. 

I have learned more about new and useful ways to apply digital technology. 

I am eager to use more digital technologies in my studies or work. 

To sum up, participating in an Erasmus+ training is an experience that I would advise anyone who is dedicated to teaching, since it not only expands our knowledge as education professionals, but also expands our knowledge of other cultures, helps us to establish contacts with professionals from other countries and regions, and helps us to have a more open and tolerant mind.