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Today the technology in the classroom more than blackboard and chalk . Our students have found new Tools suitable for training, but teachers and schools are lagging behind . I think the reason is that teachers do not need tools for training and they think that the students can also be trained without new tools. to change the style of the teacher's work , we must change the style of learning at school and in our heads. then the technology will become very popular. I try in our school to support this approach and the use of technology in our school has a problem in the methods used.

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I totally agree with the teacher. We have the opportunity to learn and take risk and I love this word: FAILURE, because only with it, we can do something different.

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I think so. We are teachers that learned ourselves and were educated in the 20th Century which learning the content is the central idea in our education. Nowadays, social media, tablets, and computers integrate in students live as well as have en deep influence to us as a teacher in teaching and learning. Teaching should be changed to adapt to the changes of society.  We have to be flexible to accept these changes and learn to be the learner to the new technologies. In this way, we can learn our students the tools and skills which are valuable for their future.

But using of new technologies in the classroom should be carefully planned and designed so that the main knowledges and skilles are learned in a motivering way.

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I totally agreee. Değişen kültüre ve bilgiye ayak uydurmalı ve eğitimde yeni yaklaşımları kullanmalıyız.

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Hola milagros somos Javier y Eduardo , alumnos tuyos.

Esperamos que te lo pases muy bien.

Un saludo.

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Artashes Torosyan, Armenia

Today the technology in the classroom more than blackboard and chalk . Our students have found new Tools suitable for training, but teachers and schools are lagging behind . I think the reason is that teachers do not need tools for training and they think that the students can also be trained without new tools. to change the style of the teacher's work , we must change the style of learning at school and in our heads. then the technology will become very popular. I try in our school to support this approach and the use of technology in our school has a problem in the methods used.

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Herta Pichler, Austria

I agree with Deidre; students as well as teachers have a lot more possibilities by using ICT for learning and teaching; therefore the challenges for the future are support students and teachers to be technical able to use all these media in the classroom, and to learn how to teach and to learn with the new media, reasonably and responsibly. Teachers have to follow the rapidly changing world to prepare students for their further life.

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I agree that digital technologies enable new dimensions in the classroom.

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I completely agree with her and I find her idea very interesting

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We have to adapt ourselves to the World changes so we must change our classes and our teching method

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I find the idea of co-teaching very interesting.

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I agree with Deirdre. We must adapt our teaching methods.

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I do like the idea of Schools as Learning Organizations

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I am ICT teacher. I aggre with Deirdre..

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I totally agreea with Deirdre. I have already changed my classroom so that my students could work in groups.

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i agree with Mrs.Butler because 21st century would change all of us include education. The new generation sees and understands the things different than many of us so we have to find different ways to enhance learning.

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Totally agree. We have to change ourselves to be able to change the traditional treaching style.

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The idea of a school as a learning organization was already in practice before. What technology do better is the efficiency and how easy it is to share what we do, what they do. Each step is a conquest and brings more motivation to everyone because each step is achievable.

Is it necessary a new approcach to teaching? Yes, but above all, to open the school to the idea that fail and try is part of the process. Learn to learn, bring learning and teaching to the same level.

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I totally agree with Deidre. We must prepare our students for a changing world, so must adapt our teaching methods.

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In Poland I can see that something starting to change but especially young teachers want to change reality. Many of teachers which I know don`t want to use ICT because they don`t know how to do that and thay havent the right equipment in the classroom.

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LISA - ITALY

I like to think about myself and my colleagues teachers as 'DESIGNERS OF EXCITING LEARNING ENVIRONMNENTS'! Creating a community of professionals who share their knowledgements must be a communal goal. Just as for our students, ICT can enable us teachers to do things we were unable to do before.

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It's a fact that things are constantly changing, and we. as teachers, have to be constantly adapting to changes, something which is difficult and challenging at the same time, but then again, that's the point of being a teacher, isn't it? On the other hand, ICTs are very useful as they motivate and encourage students to learn better and faster.

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I really like the concept of schools as learning organizations. Organizations always adapt themselves to the new technologies to keep them updated. With learning, the same happens...

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Germany

I agree with Deidre Butler about that the correct use of new technologies will always lead to a better understanding because they can help us to introduce concepts in a more visual way than the traditional ones.

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The world is changing, so we must change our methods to teach, we must be open to new technologies. The idea of co-teaching is a reality in education. It is no longer stating...The way we interact and communicate. we need to examin that problem. The teachers are also learners. Teachers can cooperate one another.

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Marcella

I agree with the concept of coteaching, with the need to open up to innovation , it is focal point to the next evolution; it is also true that this process needs to be an evolution of how much good has been done so far without destroying it.

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I like verry much the idea of "co- teaching" and learning organisations

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Croatia

The world is changing, new generations are coming, both students and teachers. We have to keep the best from our past work but we also have to be open for new experiences.

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Portugal

Today in Portugal is not easy to use the technologies because there are no notebooks and the web signal is not strong enough.

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We have to change methods. But we have to help teachers because it's too difficult for us if they are alone.

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A teacher should use new technologies but also need pen and notebook.

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Both teachers and classrooms will have to change in the future. Without education, we have no democracy, and no future. A good teacher must be an expert in his field but a good teacher and actor.

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Maria-Greece

What I found most intresting in the lecture's ideas as she points out, is that allong with teachers, the hole society needs to change as to how they want teachers to be in the future. It is relieving to know that we shouldn't be considered as holders of all knowledge but instead we are learning facilitators.

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What resonated with me in Butler's comments, was the tacit permission that she was giving to teachers to explore, play, collaborate, learn and think deeply about concepts so that we can, in turn, inspire those with whom we learn to do the same things.

I also appreciated that she spoke not just of ICT, but also of environments (space) and pedagogy (teaching and learning) as pieces of the puzzle that need to connect and work together to change classroom practices.

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Flexibility, change, collaboration: I agree with Deirdre. Technologies can help us, but only

if we want to be flexible.

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Of course I agree with Ms Butler. For this reason I have already taken part in the seminar. Everything changes. Life, the way of learning, the way of teaching. We have to be well educated in New Tech if we want to keep students interested.

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I agree
with the need for a change in the teacher role. Teachers have to be learning
coaches nowadays who should act in a prepared classroom setting. Unfortunally
web2.0 knowledge is not the key to that ability. It can of course be an
enhancement and as she said be another layer for many topics. For me much more
important is to overthink our teaching practices that are often old school and
can lead to frustration and discouragement. 

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I agree
with the need for a change in the teacher role. Teachers have to be learning
coaches nowadays who should act in a prepared classroom setting. Unfortunally
web2.0 knowledge is not the key to that ability. It can of course be an
enhancement and as she said be another layer for many topics. For me much more
important is to overthink our teaching practices that are often old school and
can lead to frustration and discouragement. 

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I agree with Deirdre. teachers have to change because time are changing and in the future all will/can change. with technologies we can capture all learning styles and i think we can made interesting lesson.

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Krysta Parsons Primary School Headteacher UK

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Krysta Parsons Primary School Headteacher UK

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I am so interested in the idea of teacher as facilitator rather than the font of all knowledge. I have come to recognise that my pupils learn best and become excited about their work when I too feel the same excitement about the learning. I am the lead learner and this is what translates and guides children when learning to learn. Of course we must guide and advise pupils but with careful designing of learning activities and environments we can ensure that core knowledge and skills can still be covered in a meaningful way

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I am so interested in the idea of teacher as facilitator

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Višnja Brcković, secondary school English teacher, Poreč, Croatia

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Višnja Brcković, secondary school English teacher, Poreč, Croatia

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We have to change our classroom practices because the changes around us don't let us keep our old practices. We do not educate our learners if we don not prepare them for the world outside our classrooms. Therefore, whatever happens in the outside world should be reflected in the classroom. And even vice versa.
I like Deirdre's image of teachers as learning professionals and our need to look into how we learn to be able to help our students. Cooperation is also the concept I (would like to) share with Deirdre.
Deirdre mentions our right to fail - can we really afford that? If it is minor mistakes, I'd say we can (and can't avoid), but can we be not responsible enough when it comes to huge, serious matters, strategies, policies etc?

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Maria Rellia, Primary School English Teacher, Athens, Greece

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Maria Rellia, Primary School English Teacher, Athens, Greece

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I definitely agree with Deirdre Butler says about the need to change our

classroom practices. Today's schools face unprecedented challenges in

preparing students for the unpredictable demands of the future workplace. In

an effort to meet these challenges, a number of policy reforms have focused

on raising student achievement, involving curriculum changes, increased use

of information technology, or changes in the way schools are governed.

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Emilia Ricci/Italy

This is the photo of my classroom: near the blackboard there is the LIM that the teachers and students use often .Usually the arrangements of desks is this but it changes according the work.

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Frede García/ Málaga. Spain.

Teaching is a living thing and should always go with the changes in society. For this main reason, I agree with all the ideas that are shared on the wall. Moreover, the use of new technologies is an important motivator axis.

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I agree with Deirdre. Among all the ideas, there is one that I consider very important. Teacher is no longer a lonely work. Now, it's much more cooperative. However, I think there is still a long way to run, in order to work with others and to forget the idea of a lonely teacher, alone in his classroom with the students... I think that classroom should not have doors!

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We should change our classroom practises whenever our students change. We can't help students learn how to learn if we are stuck in old methods and cannot relate to them. Deirdre is absolutely right when she says that society doesn't fully understand the new role teachers must play. I think we should be really supported in many ways in order to change the way we think and work. At the moment we get more help and support from our peers all over the worlds than by education institutions.

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I think that the speaker is right. It is compulsory to chance the way of teaching and learning

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I also believe that we must change our way of teaching and I like to teach Mathematics with interactive programs like Geogebra, but often the students themselves are the most reluctant to change because ICTs make them think more and not learn in a mechanical way, as they were accustomed.

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I mostly agree with the fact that we, as teachers should firstly help our students learn how to learn. During that process we should not be afraid to acknowledge that we also can make mistakes, and that we constantly have to acquire new knowledge. In order to offer up to date and motivational teaching we must change our classroom practices. Yes.

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I agree with all ideas that were analysed in this video. Teachers have to share learning practices and collaborate with other teachers to design new models of learning in the classroom. And it is important to use ICT. Some ICT tools improve the way of learning.

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Teaching is one of most complex profession. Turn down to time (when you teach) is fatal error. So, I think that we should really change our classroom practices. It is valable for us who teach in Africa country where technology is actually not "on the top" but it will not to be long to come.<br>

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I agree with all the precedent ideas. As a science experienced teacher who uses all kid of NT means in her teaching I must testimony that students learn in school effectively only if I persuade them to do it meaning if they are persuaded they will cover this way some of their basic needs through this at the present time or in the future. They are learning from everywhere so if school wishes to fulfill its role as their basic tool of education it must be turned into a highly competitive kind of tool among all the others which are offered. I think its greater advantage is and was the human touch and the "laboratory-like" experience it offers on new and unknown things through the support and encouragement of the teacher. We MUST conserve this advantage even using all these NT tools we have in our hands to facilitate our work. As for the theme that a teacher is always a learner I never doubted about or thought different. I think this was always a fact , in our epoch we just must also be extremely fast learners

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Also I agree with what was presented in this video. Children love technologies nowadays so it is important the teachers are not too behind them. Usage of technologies may create more attractive enviroment in education of children.

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I totally agree with Mrs Deirdre and the other teachers. Our students are so technological nowadays! It is important for the teachers to be flexible and accept all challenges. I love teaching and I am convinced that our enthusiasm in learning new methods that are nearer the students  would help motivate them and us as well.

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It is obvious that the needs addressed by the educational systems worlwide have changed, therefore the goals and methodology of education equally has to change. I think that this is a transitional era we are going through and it is not always self evident that there has to be a change of paradigm, however it is gradually becoming clear that education has to keep up with the new circumstances in the globalised world.

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We must change our teaching Methods, there are more Materials and the students can learn more if they can work together.

reading-writing-speaking and listening skills are very important skills, we must teach how to used them on computer and in the real life.

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I mostly identify with the idea of teachers as learners. The society develops faster and faster and we, teachers, cannot just rely on what we learnt at the universities. We should constantly study about new methods and techniques that are can benefit from. I really enjoy going to seminars and courses and talking to other teachers. Not only you gain useful ideas, but sometimes also a kind of comfortation because you learn that we all cope with similar problems.

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I totally agree with Deirdre and I would like to highlight to things she mentions. The first thing is to focus on the way how students learn to learn and the sencon how we interact with students. Of course the role of teachers has to be examined. We do no longer work with studetns just learning with a pen, paper and book. We should go further since our studetns get bored with just those materials. There are so many technological devices playing around and the teacher is afraid of them.

I think the motivation to learn is not only a pupil's business, it's the theacher the one who should have the motivation to deal with the  so many web tolos available for us and which make teaching much easier.

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Marina/Yes,we should change our vision !

We make changes on the fly, as in fact it evolves daily, keeping, however, what is valuable in the classical model teaching and we have to adapt to everything new, to learn ourselves, to train the new generations for the new type of society ,constantly evolving.

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I will underline three important idea when doing practical work in sciences with students:

Teachers are aloud to be learners themselves, as sciene and technology are changing very fast,

Teachers can take risks when innovating

They are aloud to fail and  are aloud to learn from the failures.

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Caterina Viotto, Rome, Italy

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Impressive how Deirdre Butler managed to pass on her message so clearly. She used a modern tool for this (video)!

I particularly liked the idea of the teacher as a learning professional, though I'm quite sure some of my colleagues won't be easily convinced about this.

Two issues I'd like to be rather conservative about: 1. Let's not forget to also offer 'old school' education. Technology is omnipresent, but oten just a tool. 2. Let's not forget that (young) learners have preferences and skills that can hugely differ. Not every student or 'learning professional' is made for any kind of technological innovation. More imprtant is the open mindedness towards these so called 21st century skills.

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ELEN SOTI, ATHENS GREECE

We need to offer real life learning opportunities to our students to help promote their development into confident personalities for a real world, equipped with knowledge and skills required in their world. The 'language' modern students are globally familiar with is non other than that of technology in various aspects.

Teachers need to follow the trend of technological advancements and their incorporation into learning/teachiing, both for their professional development as well as for teaching the future generations in a meaningful and motivating way. We have to adapt to our young learners' world of communication or else...we will be soon left behind struggling to communicate in an obsolete way noone will care to pay attention to.

Whether we like it or not..technology is here...so let's accept it and use it effectively, aiming at promoting challenging learning opportunities.

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The work of the teacher at school today, goes far beyond teaching. Have little time to review your work. The duration of the classes is too short to teach all subjects in the programs provided. Given the rapid evolution of society and the needs of the labor market should teach fewer subjects and prepare more students for lifelong learning.

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Armanda Stroia/ Romania

Personally, I totally agree with Deirdre Butler's perspective on education. Yes, we definitely need to adapt ourselves, as teachers, to the so called Digital Age in order to be able to prepare our students for tomorrow's jobs. Thus, having in mind the hallucinatory rhythm of our high-tech society, how many things have been invented only in the last decade, in my opinion, the real problem is, do we have the competences to prepare our students for the yet uninvented jobs of tomorrow? Are we really willing to change ourselves, to step forward in thinking, to face the challenges and possible failures of our attempt to make the transition from non-digital to digital learning?

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I think that we as teachers should follow rapid modern Information Technologies flows and improve ourselves in it constantly. We should guide students in their growing as professionals in 21st century.

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As I was listening to Deirdre, I couldn't stop thinking what a challenge and multidisciplinary experience it will be to work as a teacher. We need more knowledge, not just on the subjects we work with but on technologies and languages as well. Having the means to collaborate with people from all over the globe is a key innovation.

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I totally agree that our task as teachers is to prepare students for rapidly changing world. Thus we need the way we teach.

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I think that it is important to help students to get the ability to integrate knowledge, skills and attitudes in a practical way to solve problems and react appropriately in a variety of contexts and situations. Give them the tools to apply theoretical and practical knowledge in settings outside the academic context.

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The tools are there, so we must use them. It doesn't make sense to e.g. draw elaborate static pictures in ink of one particular geometrical situation when there are dynamic drawing programs that let us explore lots of different situations with ease. It gives a whole new way of understanding and comprehension. We can go much deeper and broader. This way we prepare our students for the rapidly changing world out there, one they experience every day outside the school.

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Phil Blacklock/something old, something new

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I saw an interview with Noam Chomsky in which he said that new ideas in learning were necessary irrespective of the changes in technology. Sure the internet allows you to share on a wider scale than before, but it doesn't change the core learning only extends the experience beyond the classroom walls. I think it's a mistake to inflate the role of technology, it's part of the future skill set but not the driving force if for no other reason than the current technology itself will become obsolete soon.

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I agree relationship between teachers and learners has changed a lot. Teachers should 1) design Learning experiences, 2) build Learning communities, 3) respect the Learning styles, 4) dare to take risks themselves. Teachers are learners...

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Limor Ben Shitrit Haimi

I agree with Deirdre Butler:

Becouse the Information doubles every year will be more important for learners to know to assess information critically and relevant for them. Social learning and cooperative will make using digital tools and technologies to support learning in which teachers will find control, teachers will lead to thinking in learning communities and the importance of a global community , teachers will use multimedia , interactive , teachers will direct the development of thinking and provide tools and research skills and problem solving , teachers direct the learners to connect , Created communication using digital projects such as wikis , blogs, social media tools , learning communities , media around the globe , communications under uncertainty , global trust development and more. Teachers will train the learners the skills that will be required for the future and use different learning styles and differentiated instruction to do so.

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It is true that our needs as teachers and learners are changing rapidly. So adaptability is the only solution to overcome the challenges and update our knowledge to face the global issues.

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I work as an educational technologist in the university, also give courses and do workshops. What I have noticed: you have to always be prepared that something don`t work what you have planned (enviroment, wifi, lack of computers ect). So yes, I agree, it is important to change the way we teach, but most important is that teaching is engaging, connected to everyday life and activates learner to take responsibility in her/his learning process.

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I agree with you that is needed teachers have time to explore, learn to work with new technologies. But even more important is the pre willingness to learn to innovate.

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I think, these are very wise words. ICT is around us and we (teachers) should to prepare children for it. Children should know, how to use it for help and and also for work.

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I completely agree with Dr. Dreide Butler when she mentions the reasons why we should change our current practices. First, we are preparing students for a rapidly changing world. Everything around us is changing, so we need to adapt ourselves to a new technological era. Second, teaching means interacting and communicating. It's time for us to stop for a while and take a look at the way we interact with students. Third, teachers need to feel supported when they decide to take risks. They should be allowed to fail in order to improve their skills. Finally, school should be looked as a learning organization where cooperation must be a central point. Digital tools allow us to engage students in all subjects. Above all, they allow us to connect with a range of people across the world. To conclude, my key words for the key questions are: interaction, communication and cooperation.

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I definitely agree with Claudia Anca. Education is not focused in Today's world. We teachers working together with the educational community should try to trasmit values, make the learning process more enjoyable and go far from the classical methods in which our students learnt just for 'vommiting' information in exams. As far as my subject is concerned in Spain, here it works, and I hope it will change in a not so long future.

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I agree with Mrs. Deidre Butler. We should adapt teaching to the demands of the modern world. Teachers should focus more on forming learners’ competences than transmitting some educational content.

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We need change, there is no doubt. What Mrs. Deirdre Butler said can't be more right .

I still teach in a traditional public / state (these two words are used as opposed to "private") school where walls cannot be removed / got rid of so that we create more space for students to interact, move around, make it look like " a future classroom", etc. Classrooms look like your traditional classrooms everywhere, even when we add a bit of technology in the form of a computer, a projector and the like.

This said, there is a possibility to "make" (or create) more space for
interaction, and for teaching / learning differently: Combining methodology and the use of New Technologies. You don't have to break walls to change if you can't, but change you certainly can even in your traditional environment.

Of course, you need support for that, and that can take many forms: encouragement to try to change, support if you try and fail (it will be better next time), a school environment that favors the use of technology and even tries to get teachers to try that, etc.

I wouldn't go wild using tools for the sake of using them, but I would (and do) use them. Using Moodle, for example, is one such tool (well, it's more than that). For a school that has no tradition in using technology supported by methodology, and whose teachers and pupils may get lost if you use lots of different tools, to begin with using a learning environment such as Moodle can be a change…

Will that mean a move towards "the school / classroom of the future"? I don't know, but it can move us away (a bit) from traditional direct teaching, and hopefully engage (some? most?) students.

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I agree with Deirdre - schools must change and teachers need to be supported in making that change

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Key word seems "learning practice" which causes "cult_ure" of learning. Thus it becomes its condition that can produce class profiles for education.

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I agree with Deirdre Butler when she says that we need to reexamine how we teach in school, because don't live in a static society. I know that technology is a part of our students life. But how can teachers do? How could we try, and fail, and test is there's nobody in our side. I'm an eTwinner, a part of a community of collaborative teachers, but when I'm in my school, in the real life, every experiment is a challenge. As Mrs Butler said, I need support.

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Gianni Marconato, tutor of a lot of teachers, in one of the threads of his blog, said that the question is not the choise between Tic or Not Tic, but "how use Tic" and "Why use Tic". I think so too, wrong use of tecnology can have important and negative effects for our classrooms

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I agree with Deirdre's view on teachers as learning professionals, lifelong learners, risk takers, designers, collaborators, co-teachers, active members of learning organisations. This is how we can prepare our students for the rapidly changing world we live in and they have to find their way in.

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The teacher is a person who educates and teaches others. A teacher who educates a particular student may also be described as a personal tutor. I think that the role of a teacher may vary between cultures.

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21st Century Classroom: YouTube @ Kent-Meridian High School

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Learn about how one teacher, Mike Christiansen, a 9th grade social studies teacher at Kent-Meridian High School in Kent, WA, uses YouTube in his classroom to transform it into a 21st century learning environment. Students of all ages - learn something new today at YouTube.com/Education!

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As I read in a newspaper some teachers teach in the school of the 21 st century as if they were in the 19 th century.

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19th, 20th & 21st, Century Education

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A personal observation: Back when I began my early education, the year was 1952. I don't believe Pre-K even existed back then, so I started my education in Kindergarten. There is no doubt in my mind that in my early education I was exposed to educators who were students of a 19th Century education.

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I agree that the world is changing rapidly and it brings new challenge for teachers and students. IT technology make it more fun to teach and learn, maybe more effective other times people spend too much time playing games. I glad that I can be part of this changes.

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The world is changing and people are changing as well, so we should change our schools, classrooms and teaching. ICT can help us to find, to share, to learn. We prepare children for life, with technology and also among people.

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Ms. Deirdre Butler couldn't be more right! There's nothing to disagree with therefore, but quite the opposite.

Globalization has brought us here: we can share knowledge and materials. And it is definitely much more interesting for students to learn through an ICT environment.

Finally, and speaking of the Environment, how many more trees are we going to cut, in order to print more books, when there is so much information online?

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As we live in a rapidly changing world and the era of technologies, our task as teachers is to prepare students for this world. It's not enough to fill their brains with fact but to teach them how to cope with their problems, to prepare them for life outside school. To do that we need to reorganise the learning structure, school environment and interaction with students. They should feel free to choose how to learn and take responsibility for learning in their own hands.

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Sure that teachers have to change their way to teach. Students today are very different from us when we attended our compulsory school. We were very motivated and we didn't have devices as today, but I think that the problem posing and solving methodology will be the real changement to improve successful learning

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The world is changing, so we have to change to improve the education.

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We need to change way of teaching because it has changed the way our students learn, the stimuli they receive in their daily lives, the invasion of audiovisual elements that facilitate to learn events that only the word would be very difficult to explain.

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I agree with speaker. Innovations is interesting for children improves education and the teacher should use it in their work.

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We definitely have to change our classroom practices. The world is rapidly changing and our students is part of this world. They have to learn how to learn and it is our responsibility to make learning interesting and exciting process using new technologies which again are part of students' daily life. I totally agree with Ms. Deirdre that teachers should be learners themselves.

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We need to change how we teach and learn because world is changing.

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Classroom practices definitely need to be changed. In Croatia many teachers are still lecturing ex cathedra, using only books and blackboard. One of the reason is material situation of the schools, and another one is lack of will for a changes. And pupils? They are mostly bored. Their sensibility had changed, having computers at home, spending ours playing games, using internet exploring new applications just for fun. Instead of using their thirst for new technologies and show them how to use all that in educational purpose, show them that learning can be also fun,; the best way of learning is through play; we ignore that because we are not used on it. Future starts in primary school. Learning basics is just not enough.