Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 20

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 20