The rest of the morning the groups from yesterday were increadibly dedicated in creating their digital content. You could see heads smoking while videos were edited, photosynths created and songs recorded! I am very curious to see the results!

It was to Lucin Pero, Director of the University of Rijeka, to open the afternoon. He pointed out that we are living in an exponential time and are only still in the stone age of communication. We must transform the educational structure in response and ask ourselves how we prepare the students for this future society which will be totally different.

Our brains adapt to this exponential life. It has been proven that thinking and collaborating can change the brain, and also searching the internet engages the neural networks in the brain. So we can see that our brain is adapting. So the challenge is whether we can understand young learners and design programs appropriate for them. This question is not only academic, because this means for us at teachers that we need to think in non-linear dimension, which we have not learned to do.

According to Pero, flexibility is a key issue – flexibility of content, learning models, time and space,goals and assessments and learning arrangements. What we have now is the opposite. Students becoming owners of the the whole learning processes, of the content is crucial.