{"id":5306,"date":"2025-03-13T14:07:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/increase-students-engagement-through-a-wide-and-useful-range-of-ict-tools.html"},"modified":"2026-10-04T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:53:57","slug":"increase-students-engagement-through-a-wide-and-useful-range-of-ict-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/pt\/blog\/increase-students-engagement-through-a-wide-and-useful-range-of-ict-tools","title":{"rendered":"Increase students engagement through a wide and useful range of ICT tools"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is not always easy to hold the classroom inspired, engaged and enthusiastic<\/strong> when it comes to teaching. This is when ICT tools such as apps and web platforms<\/strong> become crucial for teachers to communicate and share knowledge while also maintaining students\u2019 attention. Today it is essential to know our way around interactive learning to offer our students an option and non-traditional style of learning and keep them involved.\u00a0<\/div>\n
The new edition of the course \u201cIntegrating ICT and new technologies into teaching and education<\/strong>\u200b\u201d took place in Palermo from 17\/03\/2024 to 23\/03\/2024. The participants came from across all Europe, with Jana from Saint Nicholas Catholic School <\/strong>in Slovakia, Alvin from Mencia de Mendoza <\/strong>in Netherlands, Ilze and Madl\u0113na from Talsi State Gymansium <\/strong>in Latvia, Alba from Lopez De Santiago Consultores SL <\/strong>in Spain, Dorothee from University of Potsdam<\/strong> in Germany and participants from three different schools in Czech Republic: Katerina e Milada from Slezske gymnazium Opava<\/strong>, So\u0148a from Gymn\u00e1zium Zl\u00edn <\/strong>and Karel from Gymn\u00e1zium, \u010cesk\u00fd Krumlov<\/strong><\/div>\n
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During this course, the participants learnt how to use a vast field of digital tools and integrate them into their teaching approaches.
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We started\u00a0\u200bthe course exploring the simple and versatile applications for creating virtual whiteboards and collaborative walls<\/strong> that can create entertaining and attractive online lessons and learning experiences individually or in collaboration adding multimedia contents. These applications are also useful for class discussions, brainstorming and group work.<\/div>\n
\u200bThen we looked at the simplest and easiest tools to make interactive presentations<\/strong> that are essential for teachers to engage their students. Indeed, in crafting a more dynamic presentation, the teacher can request the opinion of the class by proposing polls, generating word clouds, and asking for questions or feedback on the topic being presented.\u00a0<\/div>\n
\u200bMoreover, the participants could dip into the technological world with different tools for many\u00a0practical games and activities <\/strong>to do together in the classroom\u00a0such as virtual quizzes, flashcards, crosswords, spinning wheels, posters collages and much more.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\u200bAnother important topic of the course was Artificial Intelligence<\/strong>. The group became familiar with ChatGPT and other AI-powered tools explored during the week, acquiring insights into the seven elements of a good prompt. Through an interesting discussion, they analysed all the potential, the benefits but also the traps of using AI tools<\/strong> without sufficient knowledge of them.\u00a0<\/div>\n
\u200bThe last part of the course was dedicated to creating interactive video lessons <\/strong>on a wide range of topics. <\/strong>In fact, in recent years, traditional education left more space for virtual lessons and online classes which allow teachers to introduce or wrap up a subject, personalize learning, \u201cbreak up\u201d the lesson and make it more engaging and to give homework. Furthermore, we showed a tool for creating escape rooms: <\/strong>this is useful but also fun activity to encourage critical thinking, teamwork and communication skills, along with reinforcing subject matter expertise.<\/div>\n
\u200bThis course lets participants have an important confrontation with each other and learn from their shared experiences. They left this course with a wide knowledge of\u00a0interactive learning<\/strong>\u00a0and a new collection of tools, ready to use in their classrooms for all kinds of subjects. This approach will surely increase the students\u2019 imagination, engagement, attention and motivation and help make the learning process a fun and involved activity!\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Discover more about this course here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is not always easy to hold the classroom inspired, engaged and enthusiastic when it comes to teaching. This is when ICT tools such as apps and web platforms become crucial for teachers to communicate and share knowledge while also maintaining students\u2019 attention. Today it is essential to know our way around interactive learning to… Read More »Increase students engagement through a wide and useful range of ICT tools<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12420,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions\/12420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}