How you can create and why it is important to make a creative classroom with social media and ICT to meat the 21st century skills.

1. How creative is
Your classroom
#mlconf13
@AstridOttenheym
astrid.ottenheym@innofun.nl
December 2013

2. Experience. Inspire. Act
We believe in:
• Knowledge creation in a challenging work
en learning environment
• Knowledge creation by collaborating and
knowledge sharing
• Knowledge creation with technology
Our themes
• Innovation Education2.0
• Knowledge Management
• IT & Social Media
• Tablets
• Employer2.0
• Blended Learning
• Social Networking
• Blended Learning
• Flipping The Classroom
• Personal Learning Networks (PLN)

3. Our partners and clients

4. What
is
creativity?

5. Is this creativity?

6. THIS?

7. Socrative for toddlers!
Who was creative here?

8. The capacity to draw conclusions from
existing knowledge and to apply it in
situations, generating new ideas,
perspectives and products.

9. Why is a creative
mind important?

10. Critical thinking
Creativity
Problem solving
responsibility
Communication
collaboration
adaptability
Flexibility
Information literacy
Inquiring attitude
ICT literacy
Self-control
Social media
literacy
Personal
leadership
Initiative
Ways of
thinking
Ways of
By means of 21st
WORKING century SKILLS
By means of 21st
century
tools

11. Decisional mind
Resilient
Curious mind
Independent mind
Solution focussed
/ purposeful mind
Moral thinking
Collaboration seeking mind
Divergent/
convergent thinking
State of mind
Critical thinking
Analytical thinking

12. Not only for new jobs!

13. Social media
& ICT tools
Holistic perspective
Pedagogical knowledge with social Media & ICT
How to create a
creative classroom?
Engaging
learning environment

14. Our pedagogy: 6 steps model
1. Activate prior knowledge /
sharpen learning question
6. Reflect
5. Validate
2. Select
information
Learning cycle
with
social media
and ICT
Social media
Virtueel
4. Present
value /
Best practising
Student as active creative learner
Teacher as creative educational
designer , coach and validator
Feedback
Groups
questions
3. Learning
interaction
(Re)tweet
reasoning

15. Creative classrooms results
2013: 500 teachers 200 school principals / governors

16. Students as journalists
Literacy and writing skills

17. Animatie werkproces maken
• Make and share animations
• Easy and simple
• You have to determine location, background,
characters and the story.
• Information will become a moving animation.
Japan launched a
surprise attack in Pearl
Harbour at the 7th of
December 1941
Describe an event
from the second
world war:
• Make an animation
about this event.

18. Digital news
agency
21st century
skills:
collaboration,
creativity,
critical thinking
skills, ICT
literacy
.

19. FAKEBOOK
Learning assignment
• Make a Fakebook-profile
based on a historic figure
• App this to other classmates
• Take a look at 2 profiles of
other children and post your
feedback.
• Wednesday we continue with
this assignment in the class.
Interaction by means of:
• I like
• Reaction
• Reaction on reaction

20. What we do or what
we are going to do
we publish it on our
own page.

21. Learning assignment:
• Make a Mind-map about
Egypt in the time of the
Pharaohs
• Share your Mind-map
with other children
• Give feedback on 2 Mindmaps of other children.
• Adjust your Mind-map if
necessary.
Interaction by means of
. Sharing
• Reaction
• Reaction on reaction

22. Make an instruction video
about a math topic.

23. Skype Interview with
Jaspers dad, he is a
soldier in Afghanistan
• Tomorrow we have an
interview about
Afghanistan with
Jasper’s dad
• Ask your parents what
they know about the
situation in Afghanistan.
• Which questions would
you like to ask Jasper’s
dad ?
• What have we learned
from the interview?

25. My dream:
every school a
creative school

26. With Kind regards
Astrid Ottenheym MLE/ME
Senior educational advisor / manager
innovation & business development
Å mobiel: 06-12178003; tel: 076 5245500
email: astrid.ottenheym@innofun.nl
@AstridOttenheym
http://www.linkedin.com/in/astridottenheym