Dr.-Ing. Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge has a publication in IJSG 2017 vol.4 no.2 journal. In this prestigious journal, along with Heinrich Söbke and Ioana A. Stefan she had this paper namely, Prime Example Ingress Reframing the Pervasive Game Design Framework (PGDF) published. The material presented here is ackonledged to be a part of BEACONING project.
Read MoreORT South Africa pedagogical school representative and ORT Paris meet on-line to present the Beaconing concepts and its set of innovative features, from the pervasive approach to the geolocalised problem-based quests for STEM. ORT SA, is involved in different IT projects and is leading in their country the group related to STEM and IT, in which they already involved some of the schools there for young students. ORT South Africa, due to its reputation and expertise in STEM education in South Africa, particularly in STEM programs in an identified Specialized STEM school, in Soweto. The Gauteng Department of Education Schools of specialization are distinct from normal public schools because they have a strong technical and vocational content. Learners are given work place exposure and career guidance in their chosen fields to prepare them for the transition to work or pursue higher training in the STEM fields.
Read MoreORT France presented to ORT Italy Milan the Beaconing concepts during a telco in which representatives of ORT have exchanged and discussed the features of Beaconing highlighting the most relevant ones for STEM based activities using a gamified approach. In Italy, our network ORT school “Scuola ebraica di Milano” in Milan will conduct the piloting activities involving around 10 teachers and approximatively 100 students depending on the selected learning paths. The Learning paths targeted in the school are the one related to Maths Basic Algebraic skills and also the one related to digital identities. The First Piloting activities will be carried out after the training program that will be carried out in the School for training the teachers on using the Beaconing tools. Some selected expert teachers (one or two among the se of teachers) will follow the training program for learning designers aiming at defining new set of learning game paths or refined existing one whilst the other teachers will teach using the existing set of scenarios.
Read MoreIn Bulgaria, at the Lauder-ORT “Dimcho Debelianov” School, in Sofia, a set of teachers in STEM topics, particularly on Coding and Maths will be involved in the Piloting activities. The Beaconing concepts were presented to ORT Bulgaria pedagogical representative there to address STEM based gamified approach. The Maths example learning paths was showcased and the possibility to define new learning paths for both chemistry and physics was discussed. The high school curriculum, among the different tracks, will focus on the information technology and digital design & media tracks in which Beaconing will be piloted. The ORT School in Bulgaria is awaiting for the next training session in which the different tools will be presented in Fall 2017 involving 10 teachers from the different targeted STEM topics (Chemistry; Physics and Biology and Maths) and around 100 students will be involved in the first round of piloting in March 2018 focusing on the piloting of the Beaconing learning paths and then on the training of some of the teachers as Learning Designers for the second round of Piloting in autumn 2018.
Read MoreDuring different on-line meetings, ORT France and pedagogical representatives of ORT Israel schools were discussing the opportunity for the schools to be engaged in a innovative learning process in which the game based approach for solving problems in STEMS was presented. After having presented the different sample learning paths with the features of the Beaconing platform for both teachers and students, some of the Israelian schools will be engaged to Pilot the activities. Among the large amount of schools in Israel, the most relevant ones for Beaconing will be selected. Among them the Beer Sheva College of Technology and the Tel Hai College that is developing a virtual learning environment to enable several schools working together using learning through Problem solving. Also, as most of the schools in Israel are engaged in the Robotraffic Competition , an international school competition, hosted by the Technion Institute – Israel Institute of Technology, in which it develops the teamwork and creative problem solving skills, the BEACONING Gamified Learning Paths will be used and/or enriched.
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