Miracles do happen

These days when the West Jet Christmas video is going viral, I've been thinking about the message it conveys - Miracles do happen if we all work as one. Yes, I know, it's a fairy tale, but still, I want to believe and I do believe that miracles really happen - if we join forces we can make things happen, do the unthinkable, make dreams come true!

Take my school for example. It's old, it desperately needs a complete makeover, which will most likely not happen, not even in the distant future, with all these cuts in the field of education (unfortunately, my government doesn't understand that investing in education brings prosperity to a country).

This time last year our computer lab looked like this:

Today it looks totally different:

Inspired by the Future Classroom Lab in Brussels, it is now a flexible learning space that motivates students, sparks creativity and instills the love of learning and teaching.

I've written about it so many times before here and here and recently I was invited to lead a webinar for the Living Schools Lab, a project coordinated by theEuropean Schoolnet, and to talk about how we managed to create such a creative space. The recording is here and the presentation is below:

A Little Bit of Magic in the Croatian Future Classroom from Arjana Blazic

The video about how Samsung School Solution is used at my school:

Distinguished educators

The President of Croatia, Mr. Ivo Josipovic, received a delegation of Croatian educators last week and I was really honored to be one of them. I was invited to join the delegation by CARNet, which I wholeheartedly accepted. We introduced ourselves to the President and then had a coffee with him and talked about the CARNet User Conference and edtech in general. 

In the delegation there was also Mr. Cho, Senior Vice President of Samsung, who gave a plenary speech at the conference. I was really pleased to have met Mr. Cho in person and talk with him about how we have been implementing Samsung School Solution at my school.