Global Junior Challenge - Europe

Citizens in Europe

Gina Antonietta Mango — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 23:11:34 +0000

Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?:

Yes

Where? By whom?:

The project has been contemporary replicated in all the partner schools through the collaboration on the Etwinning platform.

What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters):

How to improve collaborations among different European schools , children’s motivation and abilities and to pass subject knowledge in a creative and easy way.

Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?:

Yes

Organization Name:

Istituto Comprensivo “Don Bosco”:Scuola Primaria "A. Ciancia"

Organization Type:

School

Specify:

The project has been developped during the curricular activities and didn’t need any funding.

What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?:

From 1 to 3 years

What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?:

Less than 10.000 Euro

What is the source of funding for your project?:

Other

Specify:

Scuola Primaria "A. Ciancia"

Is your project economically self sufficient now?:

Since when?:

2015-07-30 22:00:00

Education up to 10 years

http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p92519/welcome

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The project promotes the achievement of important objectives in order to European citizenship: promoting the consciousness of being European citizens - Comparing differences and similarities – improving Language competences – improving the usage of ICT.As the project was developed in an etwinning school team ,all the activities , absolutely integrated in the subject curriculum, were planned and made in collaboration with the school colleague referring everything to the lessons we teach. We chose together the topics, the activities, the tools and worked together in the classroom with the children. The involved school subjects are; Citizenship and Constitution/social Studies, Italian, English, Geography, Art, Informatics.
The project is organized in different but complementary modules and the phases of our works are the followings:
Exchange of information about their own school context – Exchange of information about themselves – comparison of different contexts and information and highlighting of differences and similarities- exchange of different way to solve similar situations in the different schools . We take photos and produce drawings about all activities carried out, then we scan and used them with voices and music to create videos using Windows Movie Maker that finally we uploaded on You tube and embed in the twinspace blog or web content tool. In detail the tools we used are : hardware( PC, IWB, scanner, Digital Audio Recorder, camera, Data traveler ),different software (PDF, PowerPoint, Widows Movie Maker to make videos video with photos and drawings), Publication on web ( You Tube, Tripwow Animoto…), TwinSpace ( blogs, forum, web content, file archive, image gallery, wiki on which we create a space for common activities).

2012-10-30 23:00:00

Country:

Italy

Barriers and Solutions (max. 1000 characters):

In fact we did not have particular difficulties, the project was easily implemented in schools and most of the partners have actively participated in various initiatives proposed. The only drawback: the lack of classroom technology equipment suitable for a more active and direct collaboration and communication between pupils from different schools.

Future plans and wish list (max. 750 characters):

For the future we would like to continue with this project or activate a similar one and program and implement joint activities without charge due to technological deficiencies. We Need some small grant to equip the classroom with tablet for pupils. Organizing physical exchanges between partner students and teachers would be, however, the main ambition.

City:

Francavilla in Sinni (PZ)/ Basilicata

Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters):

The most relevant general result is the discovery of the possibility for teachers and students to collaborate with other schools improving knowledge and competences. In particular we highlight:  Refinement of the teacher’s class team’s capability to collaborate, co-operate and interact each other and with the other school operators and different school methodologies and organizations and the improvement of their competences in the usage of the ICT and English Language.  Definitely positive results with the children: they feel themselves and all the partners as European citizens and can share each other feelings, sensations, experiences and information and compare them picking up differences and similarities through the usage of the English Language and of the new technologies. Otherwise, Without any doubt the collaboration with the class partner enriched and improved the project whether for the most accurate organization or for the more variety of the activities and tools.

How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters):

Monthly all the registered partners interacted with the project through the collaboration on the Etwinning platform.

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Description Frase (max. 500 characters):

Children of all the schools exchange experiences and information, through photos, drawings, videos and other tools, about their school context, themselves and the various common situations they live at school ;show each other and compare their way to be citizens in Europe and pick up differences and similarities.

Project Summary (max. 2000 characters):

The project idea has been conceived in collaboration with the partner school teacher and developed by the following schools: Gina Antonietta Mango -Filomena Donato: ICS "Don Bosco" di Francavilla in Sinni - Plesso Primaria "A. Ciancia", Francavilla in Sinni (PZ), Italia; Katarzyna Ernest-Małecka - Jarosława Pyrzyk - Tamara Żuchowska: Szkoła Podstawowa nr 11 im. Pabla Nerudy w Toruniu, Toruń, Polonia.The purpose of the project is to guide the children to the gradual consciousness of being little European citizens and school with the same needs, rights and duties of their pair in the other countries.Children of all the schools exchange experiences and information, through photos, drawings, videos and other tools, about their school context, themselves and the various common situations they live at school. They show each other and compare their way to be citizens in Europe and pick up differences and similarities .All that in a most wider educational contest where they work together to achieve correct habits of behaviour. The most innovative and creative elements of the project are the comparison with foreign pupils and teachers, the usage of English language and of ICT to communicate and to make multimedia productions and of the Twinspace and other tools available on web to share them.The collaboration with the colleague in the partner school is intense and constant in all the phases of the project thanks to the usage of emails and of the twinspace. We collaborate in the planning of the modules and in the realization of the expected activities and often the collaboration goes over the project activities and also provide exchanges of letters and didactic materials. In many particular cases ,students exchange each other letters, cards and other to be completed by snail mail. Students and teachers of all the schools work together on the twinspace ,both in a complementary that parallel way, and exchanged and compared what they make through the publishing on the twinspace of videos , images and little texts.

The genius’log

Maria Teresa Carrieri2 — Sat, 17 May 2014 16:16:32 +0000

Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?:

What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters):

Ours was an attempt to overcome the various obstacles that prevent students to actually visit a place, to travel, bringing, thanks to the use of technological tools, some elements of the culture and the beauty of the various European countries to the knowing of all. Today we live in a global village where, although we're getting closer thanks to the diffusion of technological tools, tourism or migration processes often do not know enough about the person who stands with us nor his country of origin. Which brings us to look at each other with suspicious eyes. The project has approached the students to different cultures and brought them to understand and accept them. In a playful and enjoyable way pupils have known some important people and the contribution they have given not only to the culture of their country but worldwide; have enhanced their communicative, digital, social, organizational skills;have integrated the concrete experience with the virtual; have acquired basic knowledge and skills to become active and informed citizens in a multicultural and globalized society. Knowing Europe's cultural wealth through direct contact with the partner schools allowed pupils to feel part of Europe, Europeans, surprised by the differences or similarities that gradually showed in the uses and customs. For all these reasons, the project is an example of good practice that can be replicated in other schools

Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?:

Yes

Organization Name:

Istituto Comprensivo " Ex Circolo Didattico" Rionero in Vulture

Organization Type:

School

What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?:

From 1 to 3 years

What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?:

Less than 10.000 Euro

What is the source of funding for your project?:

Grants

Specify:

Istituto Comprensivo

Is your project economically self sufficient now?:

Since when?:

2014-04-29 22:00:00

Education up to 10 years

http://www.scoop.it/t/the-ship-s-logbook-of-the-genius http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p81677

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I do authorize the FMD to the use of my personal data.

OBJECTIVES
To develop attitudes, behaviors, values, knowledge and skills needed to live in a multicultural and globalized world.
To promote intercultural dialogue.
To promote an attitude of respect towards other peoples and other countries, overcoming stereotypes and prejudices.
To improve the teaching and learning of the English language.
To increase the use of the technologies of information and communication.
To improve the relationships and the knowledge among schools in Europe.
To know about important characters or genius in Europe.
To know important and relevant features of some European countries.
To expand the knowledge and experience of all pupils participating in the project, including those with special needs.
To increase motivation and to enhance the quality of learning for all participants.

TOOLS
eTwinning, WEB 2.0 ( photo and video editing, presentations, slides, videoconference...) postal mail

2012-06-29 22:00:00

Country:

Italy

Future plans and wish list (max. 750 characters):

It would be desirable that the project was extended to schools in other European countries, and that they were involved a greater number of teachers and pupils, that particularly disadvantaged pupils have the opportunity to integrate the knowledge learned with actual trips, that the field of investigation was extended to other aspects of the culture of the various European countries

City:

Rionero in Vulture, Basilicata

Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters):

Travel or go through a journey of others listening to the story, reading a logbook, looking at the images is a way immediate and nice to bring the students to different places, different culture, to admire the beauties of the world and broaden boundaries of their own experience. The project has therefore approached the students to new realities, brought them to understand and accept them and made them travel through a logbook of different characters representing the various countries and various cultures. The results of activities implemented were varied and very interesting. The whole project has further motivated the students as it is served to deepen learnings different from those proposed traditionally at school . Pupils have worked with classmates of foreign schools , exchanging material , creating work together and communicating outside of the design motivations and are thus arrived at concrete and solid friendships . In addition , the students were able to enrich their knowledge in various disciplines such as geography , history , science, art, but also the way they live in a family in a different culture with different traditions, education and thinking. So , collaboration , exchange, sharing, different intercultural approach through communication and information channels most challenging , the need to use a common foreign language ( English ) and the development of specific skills have made this project interesting , functional and appropriate to the objectives. The product is considered to be very good because of the positive impact on students, teachers, parents, community. At this level of training experience must surely be greatly towards the growth of the students, the development of their ripeness , achieving a greater understanding and awareness of cultural diversity , and thus increase the attention and interest in the school itself, who is the promoter of the complex evolutionary process of students.

How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters):

Teachers and students of the different partner schools, parents, the school community. Teachers and students provide for sending and receiving of various mini genius, use the tools that the eTwinning portal provides as well as numerous Web 2.0 to narrate and document the several trips made by the minigenius, to communicate with each other or publish on the web. Parents work with pupils at home hosting the minigenius and accompanying children in different trips. The publication of the various activities on the website allows members of the school community to follow and catch up the different travel routes and get to know other cultures and environments.

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Description Frase (max. 500 characters):

The trip as an instrument of intercultural mediation

Project Summary (max. 2000 characters):

The project was started by some needs perceived by some European teachers. Despite the different experiences made in the past, in our classes it is poorly feel the spirit of globalization. The classes see also the presence of some pupils of different nationalities or from socio-culturally disadvantaged families. This led us to feel the need to prepare our students to live in a multicultural and globalized society using an effective and engaging tool. The travel dreams have characterized the boys of every age and every country, but very often in reality it is not carried out for a number of reasons. So many of our students will never see what is happening around the place where they live and they will never know the wonderful city and places in the world. We have therefore thought to help our students to overcome these obstacles using the tools that technology provides us. The basic objective of the project was therefore to introduce the students to different cultures, to understand them and accept them using as a tool for mediation the logbook of trips made by some characters, constructed by the students.
PHASES OF THE PROJECT:
Idea of the project (identification of emerging needs students / teachers);
planning work (objectives-content-methods-time-resources-end product);
research tools available for the best implementation;
processing WebQuest;
choosing the genius representative of its country;
search of informations and presentation of the minigenius to the partner schools;
sending by postal mail of the minigenius;
welcome and familiarization of the minigenius at school;
organization of visits to places the most significant and beautiful in their own country and presentation of foods or typical events;
narration and documentation of experience in the logbook and in TwinSpace;
monitoring and evaluation of the experience and the work done;
dissemination