Discussions

Your Name and Title:

 Chryssanthe Sotiriou, High School EFL Coordinator

School or Organization Name:

Doukas School

Co-Presenter Name(s):

 Dimitris Primalis, Primary School teacher

Area of the World from Which You Will Present:

Athens, Greece

Language in Which You Will Present:

 English
Target Audience(s):

 Teachers, Education Policy makers

Short Session Description (one line):

Connecting Education to the Cloud for Digital Citizenship

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):

 Recent years have witnessed significant progress in introducing cloud initiatives in a number of educational systems, both in public and private sector. Educational processes such as openness, sharing, interpersonal relationships, discourse, personal motivation, tacit and explicit knowledge, as well as the sharing and reusability of learning resources on the web accept the need of a new ICT technology. ICT technology that promotes global communication and collaboration  in the form of Cloud computing-leading  to the educational approach of School on the Cloud (SoC), the object of this presentation.

 In this presentation, we aim to  sketch our vision that can help motivate and guide educators around the world  that are interested in cloud education. A vision which is actually represented by the SoC Network. This is a European initiative which seeks to explore how education should respond to the new ICT developments in the form of Cloud–based applications that are rapidly transforming our society, including education.Given that tablets, mobile devices and Cloud-based services are tools spreading through schools this project explores their use and develops guidelines for the education sector by encouraging collaboration and knowledge exchange. Our experience at Doukas School has shown that such an initiative promotes a new dynamic way to educate that aligns with the way we think, share, learn and collaborate outside of the classroom. Various project examples based not only in our experience ,but also that for our partners will be presented and questions and fruitful discussion are more than welcome.
Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session: http://schoolonthecloud.eu/index/