Digitalisation in Education: Web 2.0 Tools - Italy

Purpose: This activity aims to train teachers equipped with 21st century skills. At the event held in Italy, various topics on digital education tools and methods were discussed. The content of the program consists of the following topics:
Day 1: Providing information about the Italian education system, digital education seminar, creating a virtual classroom and online class board.
Day 2: Creating concept maps and mind maps, preparing interactive media, using blogs.
Day 3: Organizing exams and competitions, preparing word clouds, creating digital story books.
Day 4: Graphic design, animation and comic book preparation, augmented reality applications.
Day 5: Use of mobile technologies, teacher toolbox and general evaluation at the end of the activity.
Target Audience: This activity aims to teach teachers digital learning and web tools-supported education and its integration into education. Participants must have basic computer and internet usage skills. In the activity where a total of 16 teachers from 4 different institutions will participate, participants will make applications about the web tools they are researching and share their experiences. At the end of this activity, project achievements will be evaluated, reported and shared with other institutions. Before the activity, the preparation process and details of the activities were shared on the project website.
Contribution to the Project Purpose: This activity aimed to provide teachers with studies on digital education and innovative learning. Participants learned about digital development of education with web tools and increased their skills with innovative methods. In addition, they gained knowledge on how to integrate the learned information into education and gained the ability to create digital content with web tools. These achievements have been implemented in their institutions and included in educational studies. The activity was planned as a 5-day teacher training, and if the training was successful, it was included in the training programs of the institutions, and innovative methods and digitalization were taken into account in the weekly training plans. These studies aim to digitalize educational environments, increase the competencies of teachers in the field of web 2.0, support teaching and learning skills with innovative methods, acquire the skills of creating digital content, increase the number of personnel who know digital learning, create a school culture and increase the self-confidence of teachers.
Expected Result: This activity aimed to improve the cooperation between society, school, teachers and students and to increase the quality of education by enriching learning environments using information technology tools. By participating in this activity, teachers achieved digital transformation of education and learned web tools. The results of the activity are as follows:
1. Recognizing the importance of digital education and the use of web tools in the education of different countries
2. Having knowledge about web tools
3. Classification of web tools according to their usage methods
4. Integrating web tools into education
5. Learning innovative methods in education
6. Learning the steps of creating a lesson plan supported by digitally supported web tools
7. Ensuring digital transformation in education
8. Raising awareness on the relevant issue
By learning these subjects, teachers increased their motivation to learn and teach and were able to teach their lessons more efficiently. In addition, they have made learning more enjoyable by using web tools to organize educational environments in a way that is more interactive and students are more active. In this way, students were in a more active and better learning environment.