The year 2013 the space SIMO Network puts the focus on Education and is organized in collaboration with the magazine Education 3.0 showing a perspective of the latest technologies applied by teachers in school learning processes.
Among the contents that will be discussed is the digital backpack, augmented reality, the use of QR codes, the advantages of gamification in the classroom, the use of portable devices, tablets or ultrabooks. Innovations on the whiteboard and other digital resources will also be presented.
They will also be delivered SIMO Education awards that will recognize the work of professionals and entities that favor the development and implementation of ICT solutions in the Educational Sector.
Between the speakers who will participate in the conference There is Raúl Reinoso, promoter of the augment.me project and the TecnoTIC portal, Esteban Anguita, director of Innovation at LabHuman. There will also be Rafael Robles, who will be in charge of offering a critical vision of educational ICT. In the round tables you can deepen and reflect on Online resources, Present and future of the implementation of ICT in Spain or Teacher training: present and future.
You can also see the practical experience in gamification of Primary students with Minecraft in a session prepared by Lara Romero, coordinator of ICT training for teachers and teacher of digital skills. Toni Solano, professor and head of the Department of Language and Literature at the IES Bovalar in Castellón de la Plana, will allow us to reflect on media literacy.
The SEK Educational Institution will also tell about its good practice of flipped classroom and Baltasar Fernández Manjón, director of the e-learning research group e-UCM, will present a practical experience on theater and educational games in the Salesians of Madrid. The educational apps where developers and teachers can share experiences will also have a prominent role.
In addition, SIMO Education offers its space for technology companies, publishers, etc. who are interested in showing their ICT products and solutions to the educational group can do so and share experiences and needs with professionals.
Between the SIMO Education awards The Best Technologies and Resources for the classroom, the best interactive whiteboard, the best digital resource for editorial creation, the best editorial resource portal, the best educational App for students and teachers and the best online learning system will be evaluated. In addition, the Best ICT Experiences will be evaluated, which will recognize the best classroom and center blog, the best blog of educational resources and reflection on pedagogical innovation and many more categories.
We remind you that in the next edition of SIMO Network, organized by IFEMA and that takes place at the Madrid Fair from October 15 to 17, a new area of contents and activities called SIMO Education and to which we will have to be attentive because it has a very good program and we hope it will be consolidated as a great reference space for teachers, parents and students.
