Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Pedagogical-Didactical Multifocal Approach
and By-Competences of eTwinning
by Carmine Iannicelli
school year.
Introduction
eTwinning provides all teachers with the
opportunity to set up a project and collaborate with
colleagues in Europe or with neighboring countries
with the European Union.
At the same time there are open parts of the forum
dedicated to curricular sections of the work as
scaffolding intended to support the study of
classical languages. This is very interesting also for
the possibility of co-construction of knowledge and
the sharing of editorial choi ces of a subproject or a
learning unit.
The projects called 6 SMART (SMART is the
acronym of share, motivated, adapt, record and
take it easy, resembling the English word "smart"
that means intelligent, brilliant) base their success
on sharing, on motivation, adaptation but also on
their simplicity, durability, and clarity of objectives
easily achieved.
In my opinion, these possibilities, already present in
the portal, should be strengthened with more
advanced digital containers – videoconference,
system of awarding credits, the most advanced
level social system and its integration into Google+,
usability and more advanced modularity, sharing
and co-editing documents.
The “Classical Heritage” project, awarded with a
Quality Label in 2013, started in order to re-visit
the most relevant themes of culture and civilization
of ancient Greeks and Romans in their extensive
expression declined as language, literature, art,
religion, vision of the world, by attempting to
identify the value-axis, standby (Fortleben) and
cultural evolution. At the same time this project
aims primarily at promoting language learning and
intercultural dialogue. By this we want to prove that
ancient civilizations were taken from the archetypes
of our thinking and our beliefs. In this sense, the
ancient is useful in creating the idea that 'paideia'
has never stopped.
In a well-structured project, many are the
suggestions for teachers who are experimenting
with new teaching activities, facing the
development of a curriculum, exchanging practices,
group work.
The central element of a multifocal project is its
modularity and adaptability to the school context
where eTwinning becomes the ideal ground, both in
the pedagogical method and in the learning
environment.
Undoubtedly, eTwinning is expected to be open to a
scheduled work to be done with other classes in
Europe and with their teachers with whom you have
to share the training agreement; and at the same
time it is an environment open to the several
problems raised by curricular work.
It should be noticed that the multifocal mode is
more advanced especially for the commitment in
the project and for its overall management.
Therefore you need to have an open mind,
flexibility, knowledge of pedagogical models in
order to accept the challenge of a journey that can
have a rich yet unpredictable path.
Also the TwinSpace is scheduled with threads that
represent the evolution of the contents, insights,
modules that are covered in the course of the
This exchange, when it is applied, becomes a virtual
job-shadowing that can become real and concrete
with the opportunities offered by Erasmus+.
Pedagogical Innovation
The contents usually studied in a classical lyceum
concern the morpho-syntax and the technique of
translation of the text. The innovation consists in a
transversal theme integrated, embedded into the
multilingual and intercultural curriculum. The
cognitive objectives in the project were reviewed
and integrated. General educational objectives,
methodological and strategic objectives related to
the specific educational field (the acquisition of a
method of independent study and flexible, multi
and transdisciplinary methods and integrated
strategies: Cooperative Learning-Discussionteaching workshop-case study-peer educationCognitive apprenticeship Metacognition–
Constructivism): logical-argumentative, sociomotivational, historical, humanistic, technological.
Summing up, the following innovations have been
achieved: interdisciplinary and collaborative, active
involvement of pupils, opening to the outside world,
sustainability and transferability, and appropriate
use of advanced ICT, documentation, monitoring,
self-evaluation and continuous improvement,
creativity and originality, pedagogical innovation in
the development of school curricula, and close
collaboration between teachers and students, a
European dimension, forms of different
communication.
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