Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From time to time, eTwinning by Virgilio Iandiorio
Throughout these years, and I am talking for about half a century, I have always heard about reforms, laws that could lead to a new school. But is there a really chance to change the school lawfully? Every new proposal, every new law seems to be, at first glance, the definitive resolution for a radical change of practices no longer responding to the demands of school and society, is being re-started. Because it is always the result that you do not overcome the obstacles you want to overcome, even you create others. This ultimately creates disappointment, disbelief, and the conviction that nothing can change in school.
It was a pleasure for us to participate in such an instructional project with my students. They have learnt a lot, they have taught their parents and people in their environment a lot. They always asked what are going to do next. Realizing their enthusiasm I thought that this has made all the difference.
eTwinning connects people and it teaches and it enlarges your world. Happy to be in this family! I also hope that everyone can feel that joy and happiness.
Nilüfer Dinç Demirok is a teacher of English at Zonguldak Science and Art School in Turkey, which is a school for gifted students. She loves English and teaching creatively.
Considering my past experience, I am convinced that we probably should apply the principles of mechanical physics to school. The first principle of thermodynamics, that of energy conservation, states that the energy of a thermodynamic system is neither created nor destroyed, but is transformed from one form to another.
If that were the case( at least for thermodynamics no one doubts it), it is not worth looking for solutions to liberating all the evils of the school, or at least those that the legislative provisions would like to correct. If the principle of thermodynamics is also valid for schools, then it is not worth looking for solutions that can lead us to establish such a good school to last more than a century.
School is perpetually undergoing transformation, under our eyes, even though we do not perceive its flow. We have also hoped that the introduction of the new computer technology in the school would have represented the revolution for teachers and pupils. The fact is that we have cultivated, and cultivate, the hope the solution came from outside( government, public administration, economy, etc.); and our task at school was only to be more or less attentive and witty performers of legislative provisions.
Economic resources, the latest model equipment, and comfortable working environments are not enough to make a school. There is a quid that escapes from a statistical quantification. How big is the enthusiasm? And passion?
It seems so long ago, instead it has just elapsed over a decade when the eTwinning program was launched. At first I did not know what it was, then it turned out to be one of the most innovative ideas brought into school in recent times. An idea that is reproduced by contact, a kind of desire that
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