Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
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by Anne Gilleran
This 4th newsletter makes a splendid read during
the summer days or the first days of autumn!
Many eTwinning gems are embedded in it:
practising foreign languages in real contexts;
professional development; contact with other
cultures; exchanges of experience, values and
teaching strategies; team work and adventure;
discovery and opportunity to develop and show new
skills; creative use of ICT tools.
Ways of Integrating eTwinning Projects into
the Curriculum
by Daniela Bunea
By appropriately integrating eTwinning project work
into the curriculum, we improve the quality of
eTwinning projects, their evaluation, and their
importance in the European educational space. We
are living at the beginning of a new millennium.
There are huge changes in society, which have
generated transformations in education too,
because education could not remain passive to the
challenges in all other spheres of existence.
Congratulations to all authors, and may you all
develop great projects in the new school year!
Real life issues, which need to be solved every day,
have an integrated character; consequently, their
solution involves a call to knowledge, skills,
competences that cannot be put in a strictly defined
object of study or another. These real life issues
could be of a lesser or greater complexity – it does
not matter, they simply cannot be placed in one
single area of study.
Anne Gilleran is Irish and has many years
experience in education as a guidance counsellor,
teacher, school principal, teacher trainer. She now
works as an education consultant. She has
specialised in Information Communication
Technology in Education both in practice and
research, and is currently the Pedagogical Manager
for eTwinning Central Support Service, run by the
European Schoolnet (EUN) in Brussels, Belgium.
The teachers of Europe members of the eTwinning
community have come to understand and value the
opportunities offered by the eTwinning platform and
its principles, and many have made the transition
from a monodisciplinary type of education to an
integrated model of education through their
eTwinning projects, while undeniably supporting the
action’s main aim: to promote interaction and
online collaboration between teachers and students
in Europe using ICT.
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Integration is not a new thing. It has long been a
fact of educational life. Put more accurately,
integration is a feature of educators’ work that
cannot be avoided. Any intentional uniting or
meshing of discrete elements constitutes some form
of integration. The very act of learning typically
involves integration: new beliefs are filtered
through, and connected to, the individual’s prior
beliefs.
Integration thus means uniting discrete elements
into a whole.
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