DLAB Changemakers: Breaking physical, personal and environmental boundaries through innovative education
Breakout Session 7
Project
Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
2019-2022 (3 years)
DLAB2
is inspired by the changemaker movement, which seeks to build the
skills and attributes for individuals to find innovative solutions to
society's challenges. Two key themes are developing changemakers and social innovation education. A
third theme is the use of innovative digital learning environments
including virtual and artificial reality technologies to blend physical
and digital learning environments and provide powerful opportunities for
international collaboration. In this way, the project brings together two aspects of the maker movement: digital making and change making.
The project has the following objectives:
1. Create playful learning environments that encourage creativity, collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship facilitated by technologies.
2. Enable all of our participants to develop the personal confidence, values, beliefs and skills needed to become digitally literate changemakers.
3. Develop a toolkit for sustaining social innovation education and building changemaker attributes based on evidence from the project activities.
In this session we want to focus on the international collaboration in the DLAB project, especially how we coped with the Covid-19 situation last year. We will give an insight in the plans and the methods we have used to deal with this situation and make the international collaboration a succes through the use of new technologies and flexibel ways of organizing and planning.
Speakers
Frederik De Laere
Frederik De Laere is international coordinator in the education department of Howest University of Applied Sciences in Flanders, Belgium. He is project manager of the Erasmus+ KA2 project DLAB (Digital Learning across Boundaries) and is eTwinning ambassador in Flanders. He teaches geography in Howest Bachelor of Secondary education department and has been a secondary school teacher before for several years.
Helen Caldwell
Dr. Helen Caldwell is an Associate Professor at the University of Northampton (UON), where she specialises in educational technology, teacher education and online learning. Helen has considerable experience of international project work and has been the research lead on nine funded projects, the most recent of which are two 3-year Erasmus+ projects on the theme of Digital Learning across Boundaries. Helen's research interests include technology-enabled social online learning in teacher education, developing changemakers and social innovation education, and the use of immersive technologies for teaching and learning.