Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
environments that combine learning with the entertainment and satisfaction that the player receives in a well-designed game. Acquaintance, presentation of schools, creation of a collaborative digital book, exchange of ideas, evaluation of the action, are some of the collaborative actions in which all the pupils of the collaborating schools participated. The new school year, found our schools with a gift, the gift of collaboration. What is more interesting than a project that had as its main goal the acquaintance of schools, the co-operation and creation. This action was fully compatible with the curriculum for Kindergarten and first grades of Primary School. Cognitive, psychosocial and socioemotional objectives were set with the ultimate goal of developing diverse skills. Particular emphasis was placed on communication, critical thinking, creativity and collaboration( the 4C ' s- " super skills " for the 21st century).
The project was implemented in the school year 2017- 2018, in 3 schools from 2 countries( Greece and Cyprus) and participated more than 100 students. It was a six-month project from January to June 2018, for kindergarten and primary students aged between 5 and 7. The creation of " A Happy Stem Experience with Bee Bot " was done jointly by all the teachers involved. The division of work was done both during the creation of the project and during its implementation. Each teacher had also undertaken to upload a piece of the project to the eTwinning platform in order to enable everyone to get in touch with the platform. There was also ongoing communication throughout the project. At the same time, the collaboration and the division of work took place in the context of our online communication( creation of teleconferences), creation of google docs, creation of evaluation rubric, creation of eBook, exchange of emails and
messages through social media as well as Twinspace. As far as communication activities are concerned, were used, all the possibilities offered by the eTwinning platform, such as email, videoconferencing, chat, in order to create a highly collaborative project. Were also organized various online communications, teleconferences via skype, messenger and Twinspace, in order students learn more for the joy of collaborative learning by breaking the limits of the classroom. A particular sensation made students feel that at the same time pupils from different schools could communicate. Pupils were introduced to and better acquainted with Bee- Bot and exchanged ideas and suggestions for their exploitation. There had been ongoing contact, communication and collaboration with partners ' schools once a week to smoothly run the program, make assumptions and forecasts, solve problems and present the results of the project. They understood the importance of collaborating to create a collective project, they were involved in exploratory and cooperative learning and learned to respect the opinions and works of others and accepting different views. They met with peers from other kindergartens, cultivated social and communicative skills. They built knowledge and social development through teamwork, discovering the pleasure of teamwork and joint action. Beebot has been utilized in a variety of activities by cultivating computational thinking. The online tool https:// www. beebot. us / emu / beebot. html was exploited.
Students were very keen on each aspect of the project. They worked at both plenary and group level within their department. Particularly they seemed to show their enthusiasm when working with other schools, but also with the final outcome of their work. Their co-operative book with the depiction of the activities that were being carried
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