ASEF’s Collaboration with Visegrad for the “IoT, Big Data and AI: Innovating STEM Teaching Through Strengthening Teacher Professionalisation” Project
Funded under the International Visegrad Fund, the ‘IoT, Big Data and AI: Innovating STEM Teaching through Strengthening Teacher Professionalisation’ project is a 4-month long hands-on training programme for teachers in the four Visegrad countries Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. By integrating IoT technology and enriching daily curricula & extracurricular activities, the project will support teachers to:
- Build pedagogical expertise & digital competence
- Explore and create 21st-century teaching & learning settings in their own classrooms
- Collaborate with other teachers in V4 countries through peer-to-peer exchanges
- Train their students in innovation & entrepreneurial skills, as well as soft & intercultural skills such as global citizenship, critical thinking & creativity.
This cross-country collaboration will also lead to the establishment of a peer-to-peer learning and school network.
Schools of participating teachers are provided with cutting-edge technological equipment that allows them to monitor and analyse environmental and climate change through joint data collection, such as air temperature, rain rate, humidity, solar and UV radiation, etc.
The project not only offers experiential teaching & learning opportunities for STEM subjects; it also allows cross-fertilisation across other subjects (e.g., English, Ethics, Geography, Social Sciences, etc.). All in all, the project is consist of 4 key elements:
- Activity 1: Modules on “IoT, Big Data and AI for Innovating STEM Teaching”
- Activity 2: Virtual Peer-to-Peer Exchange and Knowledge Building Sessions
- Activity 3: Webpage on “IoT, Big Data and AI: Innovating STEM Teaching in V4 Countries through Strengthening Teacher Professionalisation”
- Activity 4: Handbook for Teachers on “Use of IoT tools to Innovate STEM Teaching”
The project is coordinated by 5 ASEFCLassNet Alumni who have been regularly taking part in ASEFCLassNet led activities for several years. Some of whom also won the ASEFClassNet School Collaboration Award. The coordinators are:
- Mr Adam STEPINSKI, Teacher, Copernicus Upper-Secondary School in Tarnobrzeg, Poland
- Mr Milan CHALUPNÍK, Teacher & Headmaster, Kladno Škola, Seč, okres Chrudim, Czech Republic
- Dr Andrea Molnarne LASZLO, Teacher, Márton Bálint Primary and Secondary School, Hungary
- Ms Jana VIDOVÁ, Teacher, Obchodná akadémia Roznava, Slovakia and
- Mr Pavol TRUBAC, Teacher, Spojena Skola, Slovakia
To learn more check out the project page on our ASEFCLassNet Website here!
Have any questions? Send us an email at classnet@asef.org.
