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TITLE OF PUBLICATION
ÉCOLE NUMéRIQUE
NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
NAME OF PUBLISHER
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
YEAR OF PUBLICATION
2013
LANGUAGE OF PUBLICATION
French
PUBLICATION TYPOLOGY
Other:
TARGET GROUP OF PUBLICATION
School Directors, Teachers
SIZE OF THE PUBLICATION
Over 10 pages
DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS
“ECOLE NUMERIQUE” is an initiative from several ministers, including the minister of compulsory education, which aims to fund innovative educational projects integrating ICT in schools.
The call for projects includes two axes:
1. an axis “compulsory and continuing education”, targeting “projects based on an innovative use of ICT in the educational approach”;
2. an axis “educational categories in colleges”, targeting future teachers’ initial training to implement ICT in their educational approach and to create educational contents and resources.
The selected innovative educational projects will make it possible to:
• - test new educational uses supported by ICT in the context of education through skills, as it is carried out in the French-speaking Community of Belgium (“Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles”);
• - assess the relevance of using, in the context of education, a large array of technological equipment and digital resources;
• - identify factors that guarantee the dissemination of educational uses and technologies on which they are based, and the means to solve possible difficulties, at the level of the French-speaking Community.
The laureates 2013-2014:
The Walloon minister of new technologies, in charge of upper education in the French-speaking Community, Jean-Claude MARCOURT, and the minister of compulsory education, Marie-Dominique SIMONET, approve the selection of seventy-two schools selected by a jury of experts in the framework of the second call for projects “École numérique”.
http://www.ecolenumerique.be/qa/les-laureats-2013-2014/
All the projects concern the creation of digital educational sequences on tablet, interactive whiteboard and in network.
Two schools involved in the project “Chemistry is All Around” (HELMo and Collège Sainte-Véronique) have been selected to carry out sequences in chemistry: “Using the IWB and modelling to complement the experimental approach”.
REVIEWER’S COMMENTS ON THE PUBLICATION
This call to project shows:
1. Political willingness to stimulate the use of ICT in schools
2. The active involvement of institutions in Belgium
3. Important funding from the ministers
4. The motivation of schools to obtain subsidies for equipment
5. Teachers’ motivation because they will get help to create new lesson sequences
6. The visibility of the results thanks to a website dedicated to “École numérique”
7. The necessity for the selected projects to have results
8. Extension of the activities already run in the project “Chemistry is All Around”
9. Good ideas to build new innovative projects in sciences at a European level:
- “From a scientific to a digital approach”
- “Creating a digital working environment to foster the acquisition of scientific skills”
- “Electrons: digital stars”
- “TABFORCE: digital tablets at the service of teachers’ continuing training”
- “To learn and develop with digital technologies, to learn and build one’s digital schoolbag”
- “DIDAC’TIC – When ICT tools reinforce teaching efficiency -
- “Smartphones, tablets, netbooks…a digital space around the IWB”
- “The educational category in the age of mobile digital technologies”
“Windows tablets at the service of scientific experimentation”
NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION
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Date: 2014.04.03

Posted by Katarína Javorová (Slovakia)

Message: From opposite to Slovakia this publication describe the state supported approach to improve the level of education in Belgium. There is political willingness and active participation of institutions to stimulate the use of ICT in the schools. They aim of this support is to fund innovative educational projects integrating ICT in schools. They describe projects from 2 approaches. First approach is compulsory and continuing education. The second approach is educational categories for training the future teachers to implement ICT. Publication shows that teacher can stay in touch with the contemporary methods of teaching Chemistry via using ICT in tandem with the necessary equipment: interactive whiteboard, tablets and Internet based resources.
Publication can help teachers to implement ICT in their educational approach and to create educational contents and resources and to test new educational uses supported by ICT in the context of education through skills. This supported project is veryt useful and gives ideas for the development of innovative projects in the field of Natural Sciences in European schools

Date: 2014.03.30

Posted by Ilka Boyanova (Bulgaria)

Message: The article clearly reveals the state supported approach to improve the level of education in Belgium. There is political willingness and active participation of institutions to stimulate the use of ICT in the schools. In order to implement this approach, the ministers aim towards one goal – to financially support the innovative educational projects, which are developed in two different directions:
- Compulsory and continual education and innovative use of ICT;
- Educational categories for training the future teachers to implement ICT.
The article is topical as it defines the correct approach to instructing teachers and students by combining education with the use of ICT and by introducing suitable scientific contents.
Some effective approaches to teaching Chemistry and Natural Sciences have been explained, which introduce new teaching goals supported by ICT.
The article enables teacher to stay in touch with the contemporary methods of teaching Chemistry via using ICT in tandem with the necessary equipment: interactive whiteboard, tablets and Internet based resources.
I find the post useful as it gives ideas for the development of innovative projects in the field of Natural Sciences in European schools

Date: 2014.01.11

Posted by Eva Krchová (Czech republic)

Message: 1) Which kinds of successful experiences does the publication describe?
This is excelent example of how state can be useful in improving education levels. This particular organization is contended by misisters. They aim to fund innovative educational projects integrating ICT in schools. They describe projects from 2 approaches. First approach is compulsory and continuing education. The second approach are educational categories in colleges.
2) Why is this publication relevant? How does the publication help teachers? According me the main reason of relevance is that this target future teachers’ initial training to implement ICT in their educational approach and to create educational contents and resources. All the projects concern the creation of digital educational sequences on tablet, interactive whiteboard and in network.
3) Does the publication propose solutions in order to exploit at secondary school level the most recent findings in the field of chemistry? The selected innovative educational projects in this publication try to make a possibility to test new educational uses supported by ICT in the context of education through skills. Also it helps assess the relevance of using, in the context of education, a large array of technological equipment and digital resources. The third propose solution is to identify factors that guarantee the dissemination of educational uses and technologies on which they are based, and the means to solve possible difficulties, at the level of the French-speaking Community.
4) Does the publication suggest how to use ICTs in the teaching of chemistry? We can repeat the same answer as on the previous question. This target future teachers’ initial training to implement ICT in their educational approach and to create educational contents and resources. All the projects concern the creation of digital educational sequences on tablet, interactive whiteboard and in network.

National Reports on successful experiences to promote lifelong learning for chemistry The national reports on chemistry successful experiences to promote lifelong learning for chemistry are now available on the related section of the project portal. The reports presents examples of successful experiences in the partner countries and the results of testing of ICT resources with science teachers.

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