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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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Global partnership was the final challenge for the
Save the Word project. Students used web tools 2.0
to create their own news broadcast news and
newspapers.
great impact on learners to become actively
involved and concerned about a peaceful and
sustainable future. Educational collaborative
projects can, therefore, effect a bottom-up positive
change in our lives.
Transatlantic Educators Dialogue Alumni
Group 2019
Sustainable Development Goals, Global Goals, were
also the focus of the third collaborative action that
was facilitated by eTwinning. Transatlantic
Educators Dialogue Alumni Group 2019 (TED
Alumni) which was sponsored by the European
Union Center and College of Education at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, during
the 11 weekly TED sessions, enabled teachers from
different countries and continents to discuss topics
and issues relevant to the educational policies and
practices in the many diverse political and cultural
contexts in which the participants taught.
All the participant teachers had the opportunity to
form groups and cooperate for the completion of a
short project whose topic and plan they decided
after elaborate discussion. The group I belonged
decided to work on the topic of Global Goals.
Teachers from five countries, Austria, Spain,
Turkey, USA and Greece, cooperated to design a
project, the Global Schools project, on 4 global
issues as a part of our collaborative work in the
Transatlantic Educators Dialogue Alumni Group
2019.
CONCLUSION
Learning is a personal, social and collaborative
process. Learning that takes place in a supportive
context and in a personalized approach can have
Thank you, dear partners, for your collaboration,
and you, dear students, for your enthusiasm and
commitment. Thank you, eTwinning, for offering us
the platform and the tools to communicate,
collaborate, share and be part of the most exciting
learning community in Europe, and for promoting a
democratic and creative culture at school.
Bibliography
Doucet, A., Evers, J., Guerra, E., Lopez, N., Soskil,
M., & Timmers, K. (2018). Teaching in the Fourth
Industrial Revolution: Standing at the precipice.
Oxon: Routledg
Robinson, K. (2011). Out of Our Minds: Learning to
Be Creative. West Sussex: Capstone.
UNESCO, (2017). Education for Sustainable
Development Goals: learning objectives. Retrieved
March 28th 2019 at
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000247
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Sophia Kouzouli is a teacher of English. She holds a B.A.
in English Language and Literature and a M.Ed. in
Teaching English as a Foreign Language. She is an
eTwinning Ambassador and a Teach SDGs Ambassador.
She is interested in exploring innovative ways to integrate
technology in the classroom so as to foster creativity and
in promoting collaborative learning. Her blog is at
http://blogs.sch.gr/skouzouli/.
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