Developing the teach21 online authoring tool supporting primary school teachers in designing 21st century design based education

Ruurd Taconis, Tilde Bekker, Saskia Bakker, Anika van der Sande

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    Abstract

    Students need to learn '21st century skills'. However, teaching materials for this are scarce. Moreover 21st century teaching is adaptive and teachers often need to design teaching materials themselves. Design Based Learning (DBL) is a promising approach for teaching 21st century skills. This paper describes the development of a tool to support primary school teachers in creating 21st century skills teaching materials, DBL materials in particular. After defining initial requirements, the study moves on as 'design research' comprising iterative design rounds. The resulting tool largely fulfils the stakeholders' and teachers' expectations, supports teachers in creating 21st century education and activates teacher reflection, even though it does not yet produce classroom ready material. To be effective in promoting DBL, it is necessary to further elaborate the concept of DBL and to supplement it with an explicit pedagogical strategy and concrete assessment procedures.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationCSEDU 2018 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education
    PublisherSciTePress Digital Library
    Pages91-98
    Number of pages8
    Volume1
    ISBN (Electronic)9789897582912
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2018
    Event10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2018) - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
    Duration: 15 Mar 201817 Mar 2018
    Conference number: 10
    http://www.csedu.org/

    Conference

    Conference10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2018)
    Abbreviated titleCSEDU 2018
    Country/TerritoryPortugal
    CityFunchal, Madeira
    Period15/03/1817/03/18
    Internet address

    Keywords

    • Authoring Tool
    • Design based Education
    • Primary Education

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