Learning from the Extremes
Conference Programme
The Conference Programme is available now. Below you can find the programme per day.
All times displayed are in Greek Time. Central European Time (CET) is 1 hour earlier.
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16:30 - 18:00: Conference Registration
18:00 - 20:30: Opening Session ``From Open Classrooms to Open Schools``
Room: Conference Hall
Chair: Dr. Sofoklis Sotiriou, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Greece
Conference Welcome
Prof. Spyridon Doukakis, President of the Institute of Educational Policy, Greece, Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics, Ionian University
Asja Satler, Project Manager Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission
Dr. Andreas Marinos, Director of the Secondary Education Directorate of East Attica, Greece
Maria da Conceicao Castro, General-Directorate for Education, Educational Resources and Technologies Team, Portugal
Dr. Theodora Kakouri, Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, Cyprus
Keynote speeches
“The European Digital Education Hub”
Dr. Sandra Kucina Softic, Board member of EDEN Digital Learning Europe
“The new era of teaching and learning with eXtended Reality (XR)”
Dr. Eleni Mangina, School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland
“Learning from the Extremes: A school’s transformation journey”
Dr Sofia Cholidi, Coordinator of “Learning from the Extremes” project, Institute of Educational Policy, Greece
“Multigrade schools: From Utopian Casualty to Indispensable Element of Progress”
Prof. Costas Tsolakidis, Professor Emeritus University of the Aegean, Greece
“Skinakas Observatory: from the peak of Psiloritis to the classrooms”
Prof. Vassilis Charmandaris, Department of Physics University of Crete, Greece
20:30 - 21:30: Dinner (School Restaurant)
From 20:30: Observation night at the school observatory, connection with the Skinakas observatory
9:00 - 9:30: Conference Registration
9:30 - 11:30: Morning Session - Oral Presentations
11:30 – 12:00: Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:30: Parallel Sessions
13:30 – 14:30: Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00: Parallel Sessions
Good Practices Workshop (continue)
School seismology labs for the development digital competences
ART ROOM
Good Practices Workshop (continue)
Educational use of state-of-the-art robotic telescopes
COMPUTER ROOM
16:00 – 16:30: Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:30: Learning from the Extremes - Closing Session
Posters will be available during the whole conference duration outside the Conference Hall. The authors will be able to present their posters during the whole duration of the conference to interested audience and mainly during the breaks of the sessions.
Creating Sustainable Practices in Classrooms and Community Participation: A Comprehensive Program for Digital Competencies, Inclusion, Love of Reading in Cyprus Rural Schools
Marios Demosthenous, Cyprus Peadogogical Institute
Teachers’ skills for innovation, change and inclusion in all schools. Pedagogical applications and Self-reflection activities – Teaching Inclusive Education
Dr. Vasiliki Ioannidi, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)Adjunct Faculty, Hellenic Open University Module Coordinator/Adjunct Faculty, Open University of Cyprus, Konstantinos D. Malafantis, Professor of Education and Literature, President of the Hellenic Educational Society, Director of the Postgraduate Programme “Sciences of Education” Director of the Laboratory of Educational Applications and Production of Educational Material Faculty of Primary Education School of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
How to connect to a NASA satellite with our smartphone. Citizen science in the classroom
Ivo Jokin, STEAM teacher and Director Municipal center for extracurricular activities Baykal village, Dolna Mitropolia Municipality, Bulgaria
Teachers’ skills for inclusive education. Reseach based development of teaching in the context of Higher Education
Dr. Vasiliki Ioannidi, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus (OUC), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (NKUA)
This project has received funding from the European Commission ERASMUS+ Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101195708 — BRIDGES — ERASMUS-EDU-2024-POL-EXP