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Online workshop: grade smarter, not harder, with generative AI
Guest expert? Joy Laue Christensen, an experienced educator.If AI is the new frontier of education, it must remain a tool that educators can understand, customise, and use freely. Achieving this vision requires embracing: open access to AI models for research, open sourcing of models for innovation, and open use for educators and learners.
In this webinar, our expert speakers will explore how openness in AI can transform education into an equitable, innovative, and inclusive space. The webinar will take place in late February – day and time is still to be confirmed. Keep your eyes open for more information.
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The "European Citizen in Nursery" webinar focuses on the role of early childhood education in shaping European identity and fostering a sense of European citizenship among young children. We will explore how nurseries can support the development of social values, cultural understanding, and multilingualism, promoting a strong sense of belonging to Europe from an early age. Key topics are teaching strategies and collaborative initiatives in European schools to create inclusive, diverse environments in early childhood education.
The "European Citizen in Nursery" webinar explores the challenges and opportunities in European school early childhood education, specifically at Berkendael School, where there are 9 different language groups. We would like to focus on challenges faced by big languages group versus small. Many children are monolingual, and the only shared space is the playground, where children tend to stick to their class groups. The webinar highlights the advantages of working with diverse language groups, teaching children from early age that they can play and collaborate even without a common language and fostering cultural awareness by exposing them to different traditions and backgrounds. This approach helps install the values of European citizenship and inclusion from an early age.
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GIROT Mathieu (BRK-Teacher)French teacher for about fifteen years, Mathieu Girot specializes in supporting students with special educational needs. Sensitive to project-based pedagogy and explicit teaching, he met two colleagues at the EEB1 with whom he brought the concept of the European Union to life and conceptualized for their nursery pupils.
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LANGE Inguna (BRK-Teacher)A Latvian by birth and married to a German, I’ve spent the past 26 years living as an expat in three European countries. Raising three children away from their native cultures has deepened my understanding of the significance of being a European citizen and the importance of cultural exchange.
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Unless otherwise indicated, the professional development activities are only available in English. |
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Upcoming courses: · Using debate in the classroom: critical thinking, inquiry, and communication skills, 27.01.2025 · Students as designers of learning spaces, 10.02.2025 · Ethical and effective practices for AI and data in education, 17.02.2025 · Nurturing thoughtful minds with collaboration and eTwinning, 24.02.2025 Upcoming webinars: · Building bridges: how volunteering transforms classrooms, 23.01.2025 · Enabling children's right to be heard in education by ensuring space, voice, audience and influence, 03.02.2025 · Supporting critical thinking with technology in the classroom, 17.02.2025 Webinar recordings: · Empowering literacy and digital skills with the “Let's Book Trailers” project, 04.12.2024 · Mastering classroom management: practical strategies for European educators, 10.12.2024 |
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This training is part of the Change Environment Project, an initiative tackling the intersection of climate change and migration.
📅 When? January 20-21, 2025 (check the agenda below for more details)
📍 Where? Ecole Européenne de Bruxelles II - Av. Oscar Jespers 75, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgium
As educators, you are at the forefront of shaping how young people understand and respond to the complex realities of climate change, migration, and social transformation.
Spaces are limited – secure your spot today!
More information can be found on the European Commission web site.
The following information is a summary of the ESEP Newsletter / January 2025, edition 1. Please refer to the ESEP site for further info.
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Unless otherwise indicated, the professional development activities are only available in English. |
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Upcoming courses: · Using debate in the classroom: critical thinking, inquiry, and communication skills, 27.01.2025 Upcoming webinars: · Building bridges: how volunteering transforms classrooms, 23.01.2025 Webinar recordings: · Webinar series on collaborative approaches in special education needs, 22–25.11.2024 · Supporting students with special education needs, 25.11.2024 · Universal design for learning and eTwinning in action, 29.11.2024 · Empowering literacy and digital skills with the “Let's Book Trailers” project, 4.12.2024 · Mastering classroom management: practical strategies for European educators, 10.12.2024 |
January 2025 events on the European Digital Education Hub, on the theme of Artificial Intelligence on the Collaborative Inquiry Channel.
HANDS-ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LAB
More information about the event on the hub!
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Dr. Papadakis is an Assistant Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Crete, specializing in integrating emerging technologies into preschool and primary education. His research focuses on mobile learning, computational thinking, and the pedagogical application of machine learning and AI in early childhood education.
More information about the event on the hub!
If you are not a member of EDEH yet
1- Register to the European Digital Education Hub: I can join the hub here! Indeed, as a kind reminder, you will only be able to access the meeting if you are a member of the Hub! To access the meeting please register at least 5 days in advance.
The Hub (EDEH) is a MSTeams Group. In a few days you will receive an invite from the European Commission to formally join (check your inbox and spam). You can follow the instructions to finalise your registration and discover the platform.
If you already are a member of EDEH
1- Register for the event (to receive reminders and not miss it!)
2- Connect to EDEH - GRP-European Digital Education Hub | Général | Microsoft Teams
3- Join us on the Collaborative Inquiry Channel, on the day of the event, you will see the "Join meeting" appear 15 minutes before the beginning of the meeting. Just click on it to join! (see screenshot below). No meeting link or ID necessary. You can check the Collaborative Inquiry Channel link to verify that you can access the Hub correctly.
The European Digital Education Hub (EDEH) is an initiative of the European Commission, funded by the Erasmus+ programme (2021-2027) and operated by a consortium of 13 organisations under a service contract with the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).
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In this webinar, we will discuss how to integrate plurilingual and intercultural education into L2 and L3 English classrooms, sharing practical tasks, lesson ideas, and projects that have been successfully used in our school. The objectives of this seminar are to:
- Explore practical strategies and tools for creating an inclusive and culturally diverse classroom environment that supports language development.
- Engage in interactive activities designed for teachers to help students build on their existing linguistic skills to develop their plurilingual and intercultural competencies.
- Show how to design and adapt activities that encourage communication, collaboration, and the development of both language and cultural awareness among students.
Registration and resources
Open Space is a platform developed by the ETF - European Training Foundation, that enables knowledge sharing and communication among people interested in learning and skills. It was designed to share relevant information and get real-time feedback from relevant communities and experts.
It may be used to canvas opinions while developing publications and other content; share ideas; find documents and resources; share good practices.
Here you can discuss and collaborate in projects, manage information, share and increase the potential of an online think tank where everyone can contribute to the future of education, training and skills.
It is open to everyone who wishes to take part of the discussion: teachers, students, governments, civil society organizations, EU institutions and agencies, international organizations, education systems and everyone with an interest in the future of skills.
The European School Education Platform (ESEP) is looking for experienced teachers, teacher trainers and other experts who can contribute to its editorial content and teacher training offer. The ESEP offers a variety of content and teacher training activities including online courses, webinars and onsite workshops.
Contributors can get involved in different ways. For example, they can:
- design an online course,
- animate a course community,
- run a workshop,
- record a video presentation,
- draft a short blog-style article,
- be interviewed by the ESEP editorial team, or
- provide expertise on a specific topic via a live presentation.
▶️ If you are interested in sharing your knowledge and practices with the wider European school education community, please complete this Call for applications for teachers and experts contribution (online form). Please note that this is an ongoing call for applications that does not expire. The ESEP editorial team will add all relevant applications to their database of contributors and reach out to them should they see an opportunity for collaboration.
👋 If you decide to apply and are subsequently invited to contribute, we would be grateful if you could inform the Pedagogical Development Unit. This will allow us to explore potential synergies and align our efforts to support your work effectively. Please send any communication to OSG-Peda-DC-Team@eursc.eu
N.B.: The European School Education Platform is a European Commission initiative, funded by Erasmus+. The platform is coordinated by external contractors, under service contracts with the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).
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In this webinar, we will explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Entrepreneurship were integrated into a secondary-level ICT project at the European School Luxembourg II. The objectives of this seminar are to:
- Participate in hands-on, collaborative activities.
- Discuss the challenges and opportunities of integrating AI in education.
- Explore practical strategies and tools to enhance students' creativity and ICT skills while fostering an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Demonstrate how to blend project-based learning with ICT, entrepreneurship, AI, and IoT in educational activities.