EDEN and Ellinogermaniki Agogi co-organised a three-day international conference in September 2015 in Athens. The event earmarked the next occasion in the EDEN Open Classroom Conference series with the involvement and support of thematically significant EU co-funded projects. The Conference incorporates the final event of the Digiskills project, a European project demonstrating ways to involve school communities in innovative teaching and learning practices, and empower teachers and trainers to use, share and exploit unique resource. Prof. Dr. Yasemin Gülbahar had contributed as a training provider in this conference of the DigiSkills project (Project number: 531300-LLP-1-2012-1-GR-KA3-KA3NW) held on 18-21 September 2015 in Athens, Greece.
Brief Summary of Training
Social media is gaining popularity especially in teaching-learning processes in recent years. To effectively integrate social media into education, teachers should be aware of various learning approaches, pedagogical effects and characteristics of social media together with the possible implementation scenarios. Hence to fulfil this need, this training is organized in a way that delivers theoretical basis and provides basis for discussion for implementation. Thus training starts with the presentation about “Instructional Methods of Teaching with an Online Focus” and continues with a discussion about “Flexible Design Approach”, possible risks and benefits. After mentioning the “Pedagogical Differences between Media”, participants will be expected to identify and discuss “Pedagogical Characteristics of Social Media for a Teaching Module/Course”. In the second part of the training, the participants will be requested to use “Social Media Toolkit” after a presentation about “Models for Social Media Selection”. Lastly, possible implementation scenarios for using social media will be shared by participants.