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The 5th Felipe Segovia Symposium, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Intelligent Classroom at the SEK International Schools, has been held today at the Villafranca Campus and SEK International School El Castillo. “The classroom that learns, with the data they learn, allows us to be more proactive and less reactive in the learning processes,” said Nieves Segovia, president of SEK Education Group.
During the day there were over twenty workshops on the Intelligent Classroom teaching framework and the conclusions of the research carried out on its impact on students’ learning experiences. The results show an outstanding impact on processes such as students’ attention, participation, motivation, creativity, critical thinking and emotional tone.
“The Intelligent Classroom fosters intelligence and has been intelligently designed. But it is also intelligent because it will be capable of learning, something that will take teaching in the classroom much further,” said Nieves Segovia in her speech. “That new layer of intelligence is going to help us interpret data intelligently and it will help teachers to be closer to students, since it frees them from the more mechanical aspects of their day to day.”
In addition, the documentary Aula Inteligente was screened, a recognition and reflection on the validity of the model, in addition, it has become an active research project that has promoted the individual action of the participants, the nine SEK schools –SEK-Atlántico, SEK-Catalunya, SEK-Alborán, SEK-El Castillo, SEK-Ciudalcampo and SEK-Santa Isabel– and University Camilo José Cela.
Round tables discussions were also held to reflect on the origins, present and future of the Intelligent Classroom, as well as masterclasses by researchers from the School of Education and Health at UCJC and Stephen Heppell, director of the Director of the Felipe Segovia Chair for Learning Innovation, who offered a virtual reality learning experience to understand its origins.
On the other hand, the teachers on the Mujeres por África scheme by the Foundation University Camilo José Cela have explained their experience as teachers at the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. In addition, different startups participating in the SEK entrepreneurship scheme, SEK Lab, were given the opportunity to showcase their projects to participants.
Organised by the Felipe Segovia Foundation, the Symposium represents an opportunity for meeting, collaboration and shared learning that aims to highlight the work of the teacher and their crucial part in the true transformation of the educational system , as a cornerstone on which the uniqueness of the SEK educational model is built.
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