Our school welcomes the eTwinning project: Towards a Sustainable European Citizenship: Building the right to have rights
Our school welcomes the eTwinning project: Towards a Sustainable European Citizenship: Building the right to have rights
The students express their feelings creatively on a collaborative Padlet where they upload their avatars and briefly describe themselves. This is where they meet their international peers for the first time! A link for self-study is shared and students are engaged in classroom activities where they familiarize themselves with Digital Citizenship. Some beautiful ideas are pinned on our classroom eTwinning Board!
ABOUT THE PROJECT
It is a globally known fact that we live in a digital era. Non-stop technological developments and digital tools now occupy an important place in every aspect of our lives. Especially the covid 19 pandemic period showed the necessity of integrating digital tools into the normal flow of our lives. However, when used unconsciously, it has brought a series of problems from social life to shopping culture, reliability, identity and rights violation, forgery and health problems. Internet technology, which contains a completely different world, has brought along a series of rights and responsibilities that oblige users to develop as producers and consumers. In this project, the 10 domains of the European Council’s Digital Citizenship Education will be analyzed and developed so as to make our students become digitally conscious citizens who are aware of their rights and responsibilities in the web world, in line with digital sustainability.
AIMS
- To analyze the importance of being a conscious Digital citizen.
- To get students involved in activities related to Digital Citizenship.
- To raise environmental awareness and become sustainable active citizens.
- To provide solutions to real problems related to the use of the internet in school communities and beyond.
- To strengthen the students’ linguistic competence by using the English language in a real context.
- To explore new ways to involve and engage the students with respect to individual learning styles.
- To enhance tolerance through collaboration and communication.
- To enhance creative and design thinking skills.
- To improve ICT students’ skills.
- To create a final digital portfolio based on ICT tools.
WORK PROCESS (DECEMBER 2022- MAY 23)
The project will take place from December to May 23.
Students will be involved in 2-3 task requirements each month. Several activities will lead students to the creation of the final product: a digital portfolio.
There will be one online teacher meeting per month to discuss relevant aspects of the project such as collaboration, students’ involvement, new suggestions and twinspace maintenance.
Students will have the opportunity to meet online and discuss in transnational groups the development of the activities.
The teacher’s bulletin board will support the teachers with relevant information about the project.
Finally, collaboration and communication among students will be fostered through twinspace and mixed nationalities.
EXPECTED RESULTS
- To Create an AUP (Acceptable Usage Policy)
- To Improve English skills by using language in context. (CLIL)
- To suggest solutions to real problems.
- To elaborate media literacy vocabulary.
- To engage the school communities and society on terms with digital citizenship.
- To develop positive attitudes on the Internet.
- To enhance the use of ICT tools and collaborative work skills between teachers and students.
- To create useful products that contribute to acceptable use of the internet at schools.
- To establish a new digital era at school and in society.
- To foster tolerance and democratic values by active participation in discussions and voting.
PEDAGOGICAL BASICS
All activities are carefully planned to foster collaboration and communication skills by using a variety of digital tools. Since safety is a top priority Ad Blockers are suggested to all partner schools for all students and teachers to feel confident in a safe digital environment.
Pedagogical approaches used: CLIL(Content and language integrated learning is an approach for learning content through an additional language, thus teaching both the subject and the language), Project Based Learning, Task-based Learning, Collaborative Approach(jigsaw), Reflective, Inquiry- Based, Student-centered approach including project, play and exploration: students learn through experiences and reflection.
