Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 66

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thanks, eTwinning!
by Cira Serio

their skills to others and in recognize their
European citizenship.

My students and I, since we entered eTwinning in
May 2014, thanks to my colleague Francesca
Borrelli, we achieved many goals until we have won
in the past year the National Award with the project
"A Treasure Chest of Wisdom". This year with
growing enthusiasm we developed the project "Just
like me", a project of great educational value,
extremely timely, aimed at teaching tolerance and
respect for diversity, increasing knowledge of
countries and different lifestyles.

Students have even learned the principles of the
"coding" creating an application with "app inventor
2" that is currently present on Google Play Store.
On the occasion of the "Game Day" sponsored by
the City of Herculaneum, the school presented to
the Mayor of Herculaneum, Ciro Buonajuto, other
educational institutions and associations on our
territory the eTwinning platform and the project
"Just like me", dancing then all together the flash
mob with our pupils.

The "Just like me" project aims to improve
education through the social, civic and intercultural
skills, critical thinking and digital literacy of pupils
to promote resistance to all forms of indoctrination
and discrimination. The project involved all classes
of primary school and is well integrated in the
curriculum of Geography, Citizenship Education,
Language English, Italian and ICT, encouraging the
development of the European key competences
such as communication in foreign languages, digital
competence, learning to learn, social skills
(increasing their awareness of contemporary
society), valuing the different lifestyle of each
people.

The friendships made, beyond the competencies
achieved both at the linguistic level and at the
digital level, showing that the objectives that the
project had set ourselves have been achieved.
However, the project's main merit is certainly that
it has begun a process of awareness and long term
could help to change the attitudes of an entire
generation intolerance, to dampen the distrust
towards the "different" and to promote a greater
understanding of the richness inherent in the
process of encounter and exchange between people
of different origins and cultures.

The TwinSpace has become the shared working
environment and responsible where each
participating nation has realized peer education on
the creative enhancement of social skills,
communication and interpersonal, transforming
learning together into a resource able to pass on

Cira Serio is the ICT coordinator of the Primary
School "San Tarcisio" in Herculaneum, near Naples.
She is passionate about "coding" while the Robotics
is one of her favorite hobbies. She became part of
the great shared learning community of eTwinning
in May 2014. She won the national eTwinning
award in 2015, with the project "A treasure chest of
wisdom". She loves her job and she likes sharing it
with her colleagues.

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