In ISRAEL, more
than 300 people were implicated in the large pilot divided in 3 Schools:
- Leo
Baeck Primary school, in HAIFA
- GORDON
SCHOOL : the Gordon College of Education, in HAIFA
- ORT Braude College of
Engineering in KARMIEL
These
Pilots had been organized in two categories:
- Use
on computer (UC1) : (for Students of Leo Baeck School)
- Use
on Computer with Teachers , and then on tablet as an escape game in the class of
the teachers (UC4) – (for GORDON SCHOOL, and ORT BRAUBE)
The Pilot with Leo Baeck Primary school, in HAIFA
During this
pilot, we used BEACONING with 200 Students between 10-12 years old. They were
their laptops, and they played on computer with BEACONING on Science Topic:
Molecular, Robotics, Mathematics. The
Teacher was a Mathematics Teacher.
Lessons learnt:
- The
teacher of Primary school was very
interested in the fact to use BEACONING in a Flipped classroom context and he
had been impressed by the results of the TRACKING SYSTEM of BEACONING.
- The
students liked to play on BEACONING, and they were interested in difficult
subject and learnt a lot thaks to the fact that they could “SEE SOLUTION” just
after giving their own answers.
- They
had the difficulty of the language and the topic of Mathematics.
- The
students were very enthousisatic and they had
the vision of how they could use BEACONING in their own cursus. At the
end of the class, 2 students asked for codes access to the TEACHER plateform in
order to create GAMES for their project in other field, Project that they
wanted to be more dynamic and innovating!
See https://twitter.com/anneelisabethle/status/1109088541424922624
The Pilot with GORDON College EDUCATION, in HAIFA
This pilot
involved 50 Teachers.
During this
pilot, we were in contact with the head managers and the Department of Digital
Learning Lab. After different sessions of introduction of BEACONING, the
Teachers of the SCHOOL integrated the Session of BEACONING DIGITAL TOOL
WORKSHOP in the curriculum of the TRAINING of TRAINERS. Indeed, this school is
specialized in TRAINING FUTURE TEACHERS.
Then, we
had different sessions with 50 Teachers courses : It was integrated in the
modular Courses of Training of Trainers new way of Teaching, New Pedagogy with
Digital tool.
Lessons learnt:
- The
Teachers were impressed by the fact that it was easy to create the games with
the authoring platform
- Teachers
found interesting the fact that they could use BEACONING with their future classes
in different way: on computer in class, or with tablets.
- The
teachers had the question of the use in Hebru language, and it was possible in
Beaconing which was interesting in order to use it locally in Israel.
- Teachers
were very interested by the Tracking solution and the accessabar.
The Pilot with ORT Braude College of Engineering in KARMIEL – A Future SUCCESS CASE as they were very enthousistic for the Use of BEACONING
This pilot
involved 50 Teachers.
During this
pilot, we were in contact with the head managers and Teachers involved in the
MASTER COURSES of the huge School, and the Teachers of Communication,
Management and Soft skills.
We
organized a Pilot with Teachers in Karmiel.
During this
pilot, the Teachers were considered as Students and they were invited to use
Beaconing in 2 different situations:
- First
on computer
- Secondly
as an Escape Game.
At the end
we explained them the capacity of BEACONING to have the performing Tracking
solution with global or individual results, and the particularity of the
Accessabar.
Lessons Learnt and
FUTURE USE:
- The
Teachers and the managers of BRAUDE were very enthousistic with the
opportunities of the Tracking solutions , and the possibility of the authoring
tool.
- They
saw the perspectives of BEACONING in their High School Departments, and above
all the opportunity to use it in
different fields and topics, and with different objectives , either in
Scientific Topics or Soft skills and about Competences of the 21st century ,
specially Communication, Collaboration
- For
the target of High level Students (20-25 years old, and High level study), the important future objectives they are
focussed on with BEACONING are the Problem Solviing competences, the Management
of Team, and Professionnel/Reael context learning.
ORT BRAUDE will be the contact with the University of Tel Aviv and the University of HAIFA for creating Scenarios and developing continuous Success Cases as they were very enthousistic and they are working together, in partnership.