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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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transdisciplinary teaching. So, in 2017 we started to
implement the Maths&Languages (M&L) Erasmus+
project. This 3-year project intends to develop the
transdisciplinary approach with (and for) Math
teachers and foreign language teachers. In this
project we integrate foreign language teaching
(English and French) into the Math research
workshops by using a CLIL approach in the Math
research workshops. Students’ e-collaboration
within the M&L project is ensured through the ML
eTwinning project
(https://twinspace.etwinning.net/46465) and
Google Drive. In this way, we are convinced that we
will improve students’ collaboration and they will
manage to co-create.
Ariana-Stanca Văcărețu is a Math teacher in Cluj-
Napoca, Romania. She is a Scientix Ambassador
and a Global Math Ambassador for Romania. She
has experience in – and promotes – inquiry-based
teaching and learning, and the development of
scientific literacy skills and transversal skills
through STEM subjects. She is an Awarded
eTwinner.
STEM-Scientix-eTwinning experiences
by Franca Sormani
I have been participating in STEM projects on
eTwinning for years, always with great pleasure to
me and my students. I started with little projects
related to my subject, and when I realized the huge
potential of working on eTwinning platform with
other colleagues, sharing good practice, I moved on
more ambitious projects.
Since my goal is to equip my students with the
necessary skills to be future responsible citizens,
encouraging them to solve real-world problems, in
particular the environmental issues, I have been
working on the review of the curricula of Physics,
starting from the sustainability problems and I
planned the eTwinning eHAND (effects of Human
Acitities on Natural Disasters).
Indeed, according to recent research studies, it is
very likely that human activities will impact future
catastrophes, while population growth and
urbanisation make communities much more
vulnerable to natural hazards. Several studies
confirm that effective results can be obtained in this
field by combining direct experience, observation,
discovery and action, so disaster and risk education
should be part of the national schools curricula and
be included in school subjects. So we started from
the problem: natural and induced earthquakes on
eTwinning, with results so terrific in the STEM field
that we decided to apply for an Erasmus+ grant.
The Erasmus+ project eHAND involves seven
partners and aims at arming students with the
necessary skills to be future “good citizens” and
contribute to the achievement of the goals of the
Europa 2020 and Agenda 2030 strategy, focusing
sharply on more complex social issues, such as the
links between environmental quality, human
equality, human rights and peace, and on the
critical role of science and technology in
understanding and mitigating the effects of extreme
events. More details on the project at
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/15801/pages/page
/8552.
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