Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
seemed to overcome our toughest course-mates. We have really tried on ourselves the efficacy of collaborative approaches empowered by the use of LMS Moodle that allowed us to share issues by forums.
Thanks to this approach we have shared and reinforced our belief that digital competencies and social competencies cannot be separated.
We realized that only planning projects aiming at the development of critical and analytical thinking and based on sharing can allow concrete positive results, fostering the growth of creative individuals and the shaping of diverging thought.
Working in groups taught us to coordinate in our distance work colleagues we had never met, to overcome difficulties, to support each other and compare to maintain our engagements. All this has renewed the potentialities of each one but it has allowed us to grow as a European group.
Sometimes some inconvenience has created some organization or communication difficulties for some members but just in these challenging moments the importance of a community that supports individuals was highlighted.
A new and wider perspective was created in terms of pedagogical approaches through the reflection of euristic-socratical methods of Project Based Learning and Inquiry Based Learning, studentcentred, which helped us to find new professional hints and reinforced our enthusiasm beside enriching our technical-didactical knowledge.
We therefore believe that in this field eTwinning is fundamental both for students and teachers who are involved in a continuous process of training and updating.
Another relevant aspect, already dealt with by our NSS with webinars and other events, was the study on what is published and is present on internet. In this sense, as teachers and above all as ambassadors we have always to remember that TwinSpace is a place where students can work completely safely, keeping into account their privacy and allowing to publish materials created by them or searched but not subject to copyright.
As more and more members are registered and changes are taking place in the schools, we shared the necessity to support new teachers and not active teachers in order to cope with new needs. On this issue some fundamental fields emerged around which we have to focus our planning action for next year, enriching and integrating our regional plans.
The fundamental idea emerged from Group discussion is that one about empowering the results supporting the engagements, already accomplished on a national and regional level, with the active presence in the various European groups.
We would like to realize, in collaboration with our NSS, the initiative to put our experience in the course at disposal of all ambassadors, old and new. In particular, beyond contents, certainly important, we would like to underline the working method,
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