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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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eTwinning… The best place to grow up
by Cira Serio
The European Competition and eTwinning is the
perfect match; they add value to each other and
give visibility to the other in their original networks.
We promoted that partnership in two webinars
organized with eTwinning Germany. And we also
pointed out how projects run after the contest can
find inspiration there, e.g. our two short projects in
the second semester: “Guess the city: a cultural
trip around Europe” and “Lights on cultural
heritage”.
Don’t hesitate, join the 66th European Competition!
Andrea Ullrich is a teacher of English and
Ethics/Philosophy at Gymnasium Georgianum
Hildburghausen, Germany. She has been a member
of eTwinning for ten years and an ambassador since
2014.
Thanks to our headteacher, who has always
believed in good eTwinning practices, supporting
and encouraging us to develop eTwinning projects
with other European countries, we have succeeded
in introducing curricular good eTwinning practices
developing in the students and teachers, in
constant training, the skills of the 21st century,
such as: cooperative learning, Project-Based
Learning, brainstorming, peer to peer, tutoring,
communication in the mother tongue and in the
foreign language, social skills, digital skills,
entrepreneurial spirit, empathy and ability to
manage the various sources found on the Internet,
managing to separate fake news from sources with
consolidated credibility.
One of our goals is to teach students that an error
is not a boulder that obstructs the road and blocks
the path of knowledge, but an activator of solutions
that allows you to identify the right path to travel to
achieve the planned ability. An old proverb says:
"Practice makes perfect" - today we could say:
"Goodness is created". Gianni Rodari has taught us
that in every mistake lies the possibility of a
story and it is what we try to teach our students by
turning t