Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 20
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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innovation in your school. A good documentation
benefits both students, who can do their own
evaluation of the activities they have done and
become aware of their new skills and competences,
and teachers who never stop learning.
The plan includes a gradual transformation of the
learning environments, making the school one of
the drivers of the development of digital skills in the
country.
One of the purposes is to create learning
environments, which allow the use of technology for
school activities, and learning activities – the same
technology that students already use for their own
personal. This initiative involves all teachers in the
class, with the aim of exploiting digital devices.
Françoise Altamura and Grazia Del Tito are Italian
eTwinning Ambassadors. Françoise works at Liceo
Statale "Ignazio Vian" in Bracciano and Grazia
works at ITCG "Enrico Fermi" in Tivoli.
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The strategy combines teaching innovation with
new school structural and infrastructural models of
human resources organization. Accordingly, the
way of "being at school" and the "school time" as
well change, the collective space of learning can
extend beyond the physical boundaries of the
building. It allows the creation of fully personalized
training for students.
Innovative figures inside it are the Digitutors,
teachers particularly devoted to innovation in every
school. They are called upon to organize activities
and workshops to train the school community on
PNSD issues and to work for the diffusion of a
shared digital culture among all the protagonists of
the world of education, stimulating above all the
participation and creativity of the students.
The Regional School Agency of Lazio Region
(USR) Ufficio IV (the Operating Unit in charge of
Training and Updating of school staff-Technological
innovation in schools headed by Mr La Covara along
with the teachers Mr Bovicelli and Mrs Criscuolo)
applied and got a grant for an Erasmus+ KA1 so to
give 34 digitutors an international training
experience which could enhance their skills
according to the PNSD issues.
The role of eTwinning in digitutors’ teacher
training with Erasmus+ and beyond
by Roberta Maria Delle Monache
The Italian school is undertaking a series of
activities to improve and develop the digital skills of
students and school staff in a plan that is called
PNSD.
What is PNSD? - National Digital School Plan -
Piano Nazionale Scuola Digitale
The aim of the Digital School National Plan is to
reduce the digital divide inside the school,
especially between teachers and pupils. The
National Plan foresees teacher training to be
provided by the Agency for Research and
Innovation (INDIRE).
Digitutors could choose among a job shadowing or
a structured course in different countries like Spain,
Germany, England, and Finland. The project
included the presence of eTwinning as a tool to
accompany the entire project in all its steps and
beyond.
As an eTwinning ambassador of Lazio I was asked
to join the USR project group and I immediately
opened a group on the eTwinning platform for the
digitutors and the staff involved in the project.
The group was meant as a starting point for sharing
project activities, co-operation between all the
people and institutions involved, but also a key tool
for disseminating the results of the training and the
final stages of the project
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