Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For“ STEM Discovery Week 2018”, 4th grade students organised and coordinated thematic workshops for other classes / students at their school, about“ Lightbot”,“ Codemonkey”,“ Roamer 2”,“ mBot”,“ mBlock” and later, about“ Scratch” and“ Open Roberta Lab”, too. Students presented the apps and tools to younger or inexperienced students and supported them while experimenting the provided resources on computers, iPads and smart phones.
To finish the school year in a great note, this“ STEM Discovery Week 2018” activity was awarded a prize by Scientix in the category“ New discoverers in the world of Scientix”, sub-category“ Peer-to-peer discovery”.
Scientix was a great motivational tool and eTwinning was a great help on finding partners who had the same interests as us, on giving meaning to learning and creating a fabulous learning context where we had fun and learned a lot about Scratch.
Anabela Santos has been a primary school teacher since 1989. She presently teaches at EB1 / JI de São Bartolomeu de Regatos – EBS Tomás de Borba, in the Azores. With a post-graduation in Educational Technologies and a Master Degree in Multimedia in Education, she has been an accredited teacher trainer since 2002. She has been an eTwinner since 2005, participating in eTwinning projects regularly since 2009, an eTwinning Ambassador since 2014 and a Scientix ambassador since 2016. She blogs at http:// blogandonaescola1. blogspot. com. eTwinning project: Volunteens researchers in STEMLand by Eleni Rossiou
The term STEM( Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is an acronym that is used mainly with fields related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. All European countries focus on developing technologically, trying to embed STEM method in education. Since 2009, the European Schoolnet Network( authorities in Brussels) focus on this direction so as the schools to start developing( in pilot) new educational activities of learning and technology in the class via researching the exploitation of new pedagogical tools for STEM teaching. The STEM method provides opportunities for skills-development by encouraging students to answer in questions and get involved in game-based activities related to Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology.
The project“ Volunteens Reasearchers in … STEMLand” aimed to introduce STEM activities in the educational praxis by enhancing learning via Science, Technology, Mathematics and Engineering( STEM) without theories and unnecessary terminology, and through analytical and problemsolving methods. At the same time, this project enabled the development of innovation skills, algorithmic & programming standards and team spirit demonstration. In parallel with language skills development, participants researched how STEM implementation may help everyday life and discovered how they can support in volunteering based actions. Teens as Researchers observed, designed and delivered questionnaires related to issues of the project and took interviews in order to triangulate the results of their research and evaluate their process.
The founders of the project were: Peiramatiko Scholeio Panepistimiou Thessalonikis, Greece( Experimental School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GREECE) And ISIS " M. Rapisardi ", ITALY and the partners” IISS PERTINI ANELLI, Bari, ITALY & BAŞKENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ ÖZEL BAŞKENT LİSESİ, TURKEY & 2nd Lyceum School of Chania, Greece.
By the end of the project we managed with collaborative STEM activities our students to be able to: a) build problem solving skills b) discover how
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