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Please notice that the Community of Practice is currently accessible for the project partners and involved teachers only. | ![]() Introduction The main aim of the Living Schools Lab project is to help Ministries of Education to showcase, upscale and mainstream innovative use of ICT in both primary and secondary schools. To this end, the project will create a sustainable, growing network of primary and secondary schools, based around regional clusters, that showcase and share best practice and ways to successfully embed the use of technology in teaching and learning (T&L) across the whole school. The network will include different types of schools and the network will grow in various "waves". See the current schools here. Types of schools
WavesWave 1 (Oct 2012 - Dec 2013)
Wave 2 (Jan 2014-) In year 2, the network will be expanded to include a much larger cohort of schools and teachers in an online community who will benefit from the information, guidelines and recommendations produced by the observation and documention activities (WP3). The aim is that some of these new teachers and schools will gain confidence and new competences as a result of the project, so that the network of schools that can actively participate in validations continues to grow and so that much larger pan-European pilots can be sustained over longer periods of time. Growing the networkThe two graphics below show how we expect the LSL network of schools to grow and link together in many different ways, according to common themes or areas of interest that bring the schools together. These themes will build on the selection criteria that schools respond to when first joining the network.
Growth around regional hubs Connecting both AS and AP schools in each of the regional hubs, so that they can work together on sharing practices, developing themes to help them scale up a pedagogically-led approach to embedding technology to the benefit of teaching and learning across the whole school:
Roles
Online community of practice The online community of practice will enable teachers and schools to share good practices, collaborate together (both at the regional and European level), participate to webinars and online training. The tools will be flexible to adapt to the school and teacher needs. Different communities will be encouraged around the themes selected by the schools. What's in it for the schools joining the network?Schools joining Living Schools Lab and becoming part of this new pan-European network will particularly benefit by:
How to join the network?The selection of the schools will be done by the project partners (MoE). The selection can be a closed selection or an open call depending on what the MoE decides. The participation during the year 2 (from Jan 2014) will be open to more schools and we will post all participation opportunities at this website. If you would like to keep in contact with us and be informed when training and networking opportunities become available within the project, please leave here your information using the online form on the left-hand side. |