Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 93

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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eTwinning Project “@ctive @nd Digita@l
Citizenship Dimensions”
by Cristina Gila to be an innovation in education. We started from
real situations, which the students discussed
together through video conferences and workshops.
The students were arranged in teams, both national
and international.
The project ”@ctive @nd Digita@l Citizenship
Dimensions”, with participants from Slovakia
(Obchodna Akademia Levice), Italy (Liceo Statale
Carlo Porta, Erba) and Romania (Colegiul National
Pedagogic Constantin Bratescu, Constanta), was
created to nurture the interest of the students in
the problem of the digital world, namely a deep
understanding of what it means to be a digital
citizen. The students successfully reached an understanding
of what it means to be an active e-citizen, as well
as its importance in the digital world. Moreover,
working in groups helped build up connections of
understanding and trust between the students.
They were able to use both the school library and
the internet for documentation.
The project encourages the students to become
active citizens in their day to day lives, including in
the digital world, thus expanding their knowledge of
it. Since teenagers are becoming more and more
interested in what it means to be a digital citizen,
we wish to help our students be more informed
about and skilled in using technology in our modern
world. The participants may be described as being
“digital natives” who gained digital skills through
completing the activities included in the project,
thus evolving from simple digital users to active and
responsible e-citizens.
One of the educational benefits of the projects is
the fact that it directly facilitates the creation of a
better and safer online environment. The creativity
of the project lies in the variety of teaching
methods involved, especially the digital ones.
The activities mentioned above are tailored to
shape the students’ moral attitudes, in order to
build up responsible online behaviour; a key
objective of the project is to encourage students to
understand the attributes a responsible e-citizen
should have.
The students worked together by discussing aspects
related to the digital life and combining together
their views on what a safe digital environment
should represent. The means of these discussions
were: eTwinning online forum, as well as web and
video conferences. The project wishes to shape the
students involved into responsible e-citizens, eager
to build a better digital world, thus improving life in
the 21 st century.
Our project aims to achieve a modern and
pleasurable teaching experience using the internet
and other online resources. We wished our method
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