A Roman school will fly to Brusselles for the final event of Project M-LEARN - Training Teachers to use mobile (hand held) technologies within mainstream school education. The Istituto comprensivo Antonio Rosmini will be represented by Italian Literature Prof Anna Lisa Colaiacomo, who experimented the use of mobile technologies with her students obtaining fantastic results. The news was first reported by on-line news site Municipio 13, published by the Controvento Association (read the article, in Italian: Mlearn premia l'IC Rosmini: rappresenterà l'Italia a Bruxelles).
Project Mlearn, implemented as part of the Comenius Lifelong Learning Programme, involves six partners from four counties. Over 30 months, teachers in England, Greece, Italy and the Netherlands integrated mobile technology in their daily didactic activities. The MLEARN training programme encourages teachers to make didactics more innovative and creative by applying mobile learning.
In July 2014, teachers in Italy, the Netherlands, Romania and Greece followed the trianing course concieved by parnters in the United Kingdom. The programme was then adapted to the national context of each project partner.
During the course of one year, researchers monitored the impact of the MLEARN training programme on teachers and the tests conducted in schools with mobile technology for teaching and learning in class. The results obtained by students and teachers in the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands and Greece, along with the assessments, will be presented at the MLEARN Final Conference in Brusselles on March 15, 2016. The research project emphasises all the changes in learning that took place in the partner countries and further recommendations to extend testing to other schools.
Final Conference participants will have access to the results produced by the University of Lancaster and will be able to participate in an interactive session of the MLEARN training programme to directly understand the experience of the teachers participating in the project.
Delegates may register for the event for free at: www.MLEARN-project.eu/conference. For further information on the project and the developed resources:www.mlearn-project.eu
Press contact in Brusselles: Daiana Huber, CPIP, daiana.huber@cpip.ro
