Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2025 Newsletter
Learning from Different Perspectives by Eugenia Olguța Cotulbea
It is widely known the fact that acquiring new information is, by far, more effective and enjoyable when it is done by experimenting new situations. This article will present my latest experience as an eTwinner, founder of the project Learning environments, whose stages of development broadened horizons of both teachers and students involved in it.
The project included physical spaces such as classrooms, schools, or workplaces, virtual spaces such as digital platforms or blended spaces that combined both physical and digital elements in order to encourage students to find benefits in each place they are at a certain period of their lives to acquire information. The best ways students learn, according to some research, make four types of learners: visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, and reading / writing so we aimed to encourage students experience all of them in order to get themselves known better. Most people are a combination of these four styles, but, in many cases, they have a predominant style of learning.
Thus, starting from its aims, it enabled all the participants to create effective environments of learning such as developing creativity in students and
helping them adapt the activities from the project to real life. Another aim represented making teenagers aware of the educational benefits they can have from playing different games such as learning words in foreign languages but also in terms of developing life skills.
Furthermore, encouraging open space activities and practical ones such as adapting virtual realities to everyday activities from which they will learn that it can be even more rewarding to spend time outdoors and collaborate with your mates in order to have a common, final product. Also developing skills such as listening to music in order to discover some specific information was another stage of our project.
The main stages of the project contained activities such as PADLET, where all the partners shared from their experience of The New Year ' s Gift Giving Ceremony, students ' meetings, in which they exchanged ideas and had discussions on different topics such as leisure activities and developed cultural awareness.
One example is the meeting that was held on the 1st of March, which was extremely appealing to each of them, not only from the perspective of developing speaking skills, but from the cultural information they found during this international activity.
The idea of revealing traditions was present during December activities, in which students made research and created PowerPoint presentations and videos with customs and traditions.
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