A smart and effective activity tracking tool for teachers of the 21st Century

The rapid development and the widespread use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have an enormous influence on the way of living, working, and learning. Expecting ICT to help students to meet the challenges of this fast-changing world, ICT has entered the educational field in a pervasive way. Resulting changes in the educational sector have major implication not only for the process of learning but also for the teaching profession itself. The biggest change area of today’s classroom is the role of the teacher in the classroom. Teachers of today need to be a facilitator of learning, a partner or co-participant in the learning process by taking into account students’ strengths and weaknesses when planning and delivering learning activities. The main aim of the European project Next-Tell (www.next-tell.eu), an EU-funded project is to support teachers in facing exactly these challenges, or in more general the challenges of the 21st century education.This paper presents an activity tracking tool called myClass that has been developed in the context of the Next-Tell project. Furthermore, a report outlines explicit user feedback given by teachers who have applied and used myClass in the context of a training workshop.