ALO FINLAND MOOCINNOVATIVE PEDAGOGY AND EDTECH IN FINLAND

MOOC AS A GLOBAL LEARNERS COMMUNITY

• ALO Finland MOOC starts the conversation by introducing Innovative

Pedagogy and EdTech in Finland. The emphasis is on the practical and

holistic approach as well as simple solutions that can be easily repeated,

adopted and further developed further worldwide.

• The course is aiming to be more than just content delivery and theory. MOOC

at its best is a global learners community with plenty of interaction and

collaboration; sharing good ideas, thoughts and also failures, developing

good practices further together!

THE NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM AND DIGITALIZATION OF EDUCATION

• Technology is a tool among other tools, and pedagogy should always be in the front.

• Finland is facing changes in developing and digitalization of education. According to

OECD studies the very same challenge is happening globally. Therefore it will be not

only interesting, but also useful to discuss different practical ways to successfully

integrate technology, teaching and learning.

• ICT is not the only innovation in education, but the new national curriculum in also

introducing phenomenal learning and other changes to meet the needs of the rapidly

changing living, learning and working environments.

COURSE CONTENT:

• 1. Introduction to MOOC as a global learning environment and authentic learning.

• 2. Flipped classroom-pedagogy in secondary school in the European School of

Brussels IV. Experimenting in English as a second language classes, was the starting

point to further experiments in the primary school and the Finnish Twist-pedagogy.

• 3. Coding lessons in the primary school. Instead of teaching primary year 3

pupils how to code, they were taught how to teach coding to other classes. They have

taught around 200 other pupils the basics of coding

CODING, COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

PsTNZJiWUqg

GAMIFIED, FLIPPED CLASSROOM IN PRIMARYSCHOOL

• 4. Gamified lessons with the little

learners. A digital maths learning game

was used to enhance learning and

collaboration between primary year 1

pupils. Also maths videos were given as

homework, so that pupils could practice

the skills needed to play the game

effectively in the class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQz

HuyucdX0

EDTECH IN PRESCHOOL

• 5. Preschool, ICT and child-centered

approach. They have 28 preschoolers,

a smartboard and three Ipads and they

have managed to do many interesting

projects with the children. Lack of

resources is no excuse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcB

_xL-xPwA

ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOOL

• 6. Award winning environmental

school and phenomenal learning in

practice. It is an old school in the

most beautiful surroundings and they

use the whole village as their

learning environment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

IEuzhnH2Zr4

WEBINARS:

• Please use Twitter, #ALOFinland in advance to send interesting topics to

discuss and questions to be answered.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• 1. Learn about interesting and innovative practical experiments and

pedagogy in Finnish preschools and primary education.

• 2. Learn to share, benchmark and collaborate in a global MOOC community.

• 3. Practice positive peer assessment skills, emphasis on problem solving and

solutions.

CREATIVITY, COLLABORATION AND INNOVATION IN EDUCATION

• 4. Innovate! Create, try in practice, share your brave experiments with others

and learn from other teachers innovations in learning and teaching.

• 5. Develop together! Share the good practices and also the mistakes that you

made along the way. Failures can be great learning opportunities and there is

rarely a straight route to success stories.

CERTIFICATE:

• A free online certificate is provided

after successful completion of the

course. It is an online version, which

can be easily linked to your LinkedIn

profile.

• Also a printed certificate can be

ordered

THANK YOU AND SUNNY GREETINGS FROMFINLAND!

• Pirjo@alofinland.com