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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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Alexandra Duarte is an English as a Foreign Language
(EFL) teacher currently based in Soure, Portugal. She has
been teaching English for over 20 years and has already
taught different levels and age groups. She is an avid
reader, a blogger and very curious about free tools and
their implementation in the classroom. For books and
readings, visit
https://www.instagram.com/teacheralexduarte/?hl=en .
eTwinning Going Global:
Global Partnerships and Global Goals
by Sophia Kouzouli
Introduction
“No One is too Small to Make a Difference.” This
phrase, being an inspiration for students all over
the world and teachers who wish to empower their
students to take ownership of their own learning
and develop the necessary skills to become active
citizens, has been the motto of the eTwinning
collaborations in this paper. eTwinning, the largest
community for schools in Europe, facilitated school
partnerships on a global level both as far as the
topic as well as the participants of the projects are
concerned. Global goals and global partnerships
supported by eTwinning will be explored and
presented in the present paper.
The Climate Action Project
The Climate Action project, https://www.climate-
action.info/, designed and organized by Koen
Timmers, inspired teachers and learners to work
and collaborate on real world problem solving,
focusing on the tremendous effects of climate
change, relating it to their community and
suggesting ways of how it can be faced. In 2017
250 schools across 69 countries participated and in
2018 there were 515 schools across 90 countries.
This project is supported by Dalai Lama, Dr. Jane
Goodall, Greenpeace, Unesco, Microsoft Education,
scientists and other public figures. Students over 6
continents focused on Climate Change during 4
weeks. They explored, brainstormed, discussed,
constructed, presented and shared their findings.
This project was an opportunity for our students to
become familiar with the ideas of The 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development, a plan set forth by
the United Nations to bring solution to the most
complex and urgent problems that our world faces
today. This plan concerns 17 initiatives, known as
the Sustainable Development Goals. Each goal,
ranging from areas such as eliminating poverty
(Goal 1) and hunger (Goal 2), quality education
(Goal 4), reducing inequalities (Goal 10), climate
action (Goal 13), to peace (Goal 16) and global
partnerships (Goal 17), offers clear targets for
countries and citizens to respond to the call to
action to meet the goals by the year 2030. In
October 2019 it will be the third year this project
will take place.
Save the Word
Save the Word,
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/73755/home, was
an eTwinning project that focused on issues of
critical importance that are challenges for the future
of humanity and the planet. Climate, Poverty,
Hunger, Peace and Global Partnership were the five
topics that the participating countries explored.
Together with dear colleagues, Betina Astride
Santos, Andrea Ullrich and İnnap Kaya, we guided
our students in Portugal, Germany, Turkey and
Greece outside their comfort zones and helped
them to explore, think and make their own creative
collaborative work. Each thematic unit was initiated
by a riddle. Students tried to solve the riddle and
find out the topic of their work. This inpiring and
playful way made them brainstorm and become
highly engaged.
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