Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 112
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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above all we learned to work together.
Have you made friends with someone?
Yes, we have! This year, however, each of us chose
a 'PenPal' with whom we started exchanging letters,
greeting cards and handmade works. We hope to
meet as soon these new friends, as we have met,
several times ago, Mrs. Francesca Borrelli, a
teacher of the School "A. Maestri" of Parma, with
whom we have collaborated in several projects.
Now we ask to a student’s mom, what she
thinks about studying with eTwinning
projects?
I believe that since the School started working on
the eTwinning platform, the kids, as my daughter,
come to school with a strong motivation and joy.
They never feel tired and at home they talk about
projects and gather in groups to find ideas and
draw designs, posters, and artefacts for their
project friends. I feel thanking the School for the
wonderful work it is doing with our children and
special thanks goes to eTwinning that allows
teachers to bring Europe in the classes.
Let's talk now with Sister Loredana Ursini,
Headmaster of Primary School San Tarcisio:
How did you know about eTwinning and when
did you decide to take your school to various
projects?
"I met eTwinning through our ICT Coordinator, Cira
Serio, to whom we are all very grateful to have
been the pioneer in this new path, which aims at a
real innovation of didactics. In fact, through the
eTwinning projects, she helps students to reach the
skills they need to train future European citizens. I
have realized immediately that, this great European
community of teachers, through electronic twinning
among schools, in different European countries, is
making a major contribution to the process of
innovation in teaching and learning models and so I
invited all my school teachers to participate in the
various Projects and I myself took part in them. E-
learning, team-work, problem solving, and learning
by doing, through sharing experiences, have
increased pupils' participation and led the classes to
a much higher level of communication.
What would you like to become this school?
"Our goal is the educational success of all our
students, a success that is built only by making
each of them the protagonist of building their own
knowledge, eager to know and experiment. Pupils
really learn when they are involved in targeted
activities, reflect, ask questions, identify problems,
and cause others to emerge when they are placed
in the state of being curious, to reflect on their
thoughts and to put forward continuous questions
to which they will find the answers and then
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