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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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In Engineering issue all partners were informed
end expressed what Scientix is. Collaboration was
achieved after uploading ppts or one short video,
with comments on which part they think is
interesting. They also did scratch for arduino with
gigo s4 programming bricks. Also, the the Greek
school was selected to be one of the five schools in
Greece which will implement Umi-Sci-Ed as a pilot
implementation and they shared their experience.
Furthermore, a week summer school was organised
in the School for UMI technologies.
https://youtu.be/0-1VPJW8DZw
In Mathematics issue Volunteens were able to get
an insight into geometry, calculus, analysis and
logic while observing changes over a period of time,
e.g. changes in the currency values , the inflation
rates, or company profits. While discussing about
a pie chart created by themselves, they learned at
a glance how a total amount is divided up such as a
budget, their expenses, etc.
Eleni Rossiou holds a PhD in Applied Informatics, an
M.Sc. in Computer Science, an M.Ed. in Adults
Education, an M.A. Science of Education Studies
concentrated to Educational Leadership and Policy,
Postgraduate Certification in Open and Distance
Education, and a BSc in Mathematics. She is an
eTwinning Ambassador, a Scientix Ambassador and
an ambassador in Teachers4Europe project. She is
Vice Principal and a professor of Mathematics and
ICT in Experimental School of Aristotle University,
certified teacher trainer and member of various
scientific Associations. Her research focuses on
blended learning and game ‐ based learning in
Secondary, Education, in Higher Education and in
Adults’ Education.
eTwinning and Scientix: The perfect tandem
for working STEAM in schools
by Lorenzo Castilla Mora
Nowadays, schools are changing not only physically
but also as far as methodologies and resources are
concerned. Among the active methodologies used in
the classrooms, one standing out is the STE(A)M -
Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and
Mathematics- because of its beneficial
interdisciplinary approach. According to Bybee
(2010) “true STEM education should increase
students' understanding of how things work and
improve their use of technologies” and this is
something that can be worked in our schools by
helping us with eTwinning and Scientix.
eTwinning is a platform that allows us to develop a
project in its entirety. The TwinSpace, apart from
being a closed and safe environment for students,
offers a series of tools that help to interact with
project partners. Therefore, with eTwinning it is
easy to use in our teaching practice a STE(A)M
approach as we will see.
As far as Scientix is concerned, it is a community
that, in addition to training, news, etc., provides a
series of resources of great value to work with
STE(A)M approach without the need to invest great
effort in the creation of resources or in searching
for them through the network.
Based on these premises, we are going to show
how eTwinning and Scientix can be used in our
schools to work STE(A)M. To this end, examples of
activities in which several disciplines have been
worked in an interdisciplinary way in the projects
MAVEN-MAth Via English and Sharing Our Cultural
Heritage: Coesfeld, Örnsköldsvik and Huelva
(SOCH) are shown. MAVEN is a project to promote
the learning of Mathematics in English through
videoconferences, games and varied activities. At
the same time, other topics of the curriculum are
worked transversely: Geography, plastic and visual
or ICTs using the CLIL methodology. In the SOCH
Project, our students have shared their cities
cultural heritage and got closer in this way to
Swedish, German and Spanish cultures
respectively. Besides, many subjects have
participated in this project.
Science is part of our student’s life and this is a
very important reason to count with it in our
projects. In MAVEN the Social Science and
Geography were worked together with language
and mathematics. The activities of each month
were related to a topic in the Mathematics
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