Smart Lesson: Empower learning with smartphones
The use of smartphones in the classroom can enhance student engagement and foster a dynamic learning environment. With Smart Lesson, teachers can learn about innovative tools and strategies for using smartphones in education
What is Smart Lesson
Smart lesson is a project co-founded by the European Union in the framework of the Erasmus + Program. The consortium, shaped by 10 organizations and educational centers from Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece and Latvia, will co-create and validate new methodologies and tools for designing learning paths based on the use of smartphones that fully exploit the potential of this tool to develop students' key skills. We will work towards a different education in digital skills. These training activities will be carried out in person and online, encouraging the active participation of students.
Main goals
To overcome the resistance to use the smartphone as a learning tool in class, Smart Lesson will act by supporting teachers with suitable methodologies and tools. To overcome this difficulty, the SMART LESSON project is primarily aimed at the target of teachers, in particular those of high schools.
Provide a methodology for designing learning paths based on the use of smartphones that fully exploit the potential of this tool to develop students' key skills
Provide guidelines and indications on how to best use the smartphone in class management and relations with students and families
Support teachers in assessing students in mobile learning processes, identifying the skills to be assessed
What will Smart Lesson facilitate?
The use of smartphones as an educational tool offers many benefits that go beyond a powerful, attractive and motivating device that provides easy access to all kinds of information. However, it also presents some critical points that must be considered. Educators and teachers are the only ones who can develop effective strategies to integrate smartphones in the classroom and ensure that all students have access to the resources they need to succeed in their learning, in a creative, responsible, safe and participatory way. For this reason, Smart Lesson will provide:
Constant support and guiding for teachers in the evaluation of students in mobile learning processes, identifying the key components of the evaluation process and the skills to be evaluated.
The development of a digital profile of the teacher, encouraging the acquisition of approaches that make it more of a mentor and guide for students, helping in the development of their digital skills in their learning path through the smartphone.
A proper educational methodology, which allows teachers participating in the project to design combined learning paths and educational environments through the integration and effective use of digital tools (in particular, the smartphone) in each phase of the teaching activity.
New approaches and tools to effectively coordinate work groups in class, and outside of it: This is within the DigComp 2.1 framework established by the EU to improve and facilitate relationships between teachers, students and families.
The effective evaluation of the activities through the SMART EVAUATION METER, Evaluate the progress of the students and the effectiveness of the smartphone as a learning tool.
Smart Lesson Tools for teachers
Two new tools will be co-created with the rest of the organizations: the SMART LESSON Kit and the SMART EVALUATION METER
Meet the partners
The consortium is made up of 10 organizations from Spain, Italy, Greece, Romania and Latvia, with experience in working with students and in developing projects focused on training and the creation of open educational resources. The project is coordinated by the italian organizaton Aretés.
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