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Open eTwinning: Project-Based Learning and the Community for Schools in Europe
While it is highly recommended to join eTwinning for this course, as a lot of specific references to it will be made, it is not essential to do so. It is still possible to gain value from the course by focussing only on the PBL related elements which will be picked up again and again throughout the course.
In fact, project-based learning is going to be ever-present throughout the course. For this reason, before starting the modules, we will introduce the concept of PBL separately in this and the following section. Let's start out by watching this video where PBL is explained.
http://academy.schooleducationgateway.eu/en/web/five-strategies-for-learning-online/home
- Establishing Real-World Connections in Projects
- Building Rigorous Projects That Are Core to Learning
- Structuring Collaboration for Student Success
- Facilitating Learning in a Student-Driven Environment
- Embedding Assessment Throughout the Project
When starting to use PBL in the classroom, it is important to relate it to the real world and communities in order to engage students more. The content and knowledge acquired by the student will be those demanded by the curricula, but you shouldn’t forget that participation in a project – for example a project with another school via eTwinning – will provide the content and should not be taken as a side activity, but as the core of the lesson.
https://spark.adobe.com/sp/projects
https://https://spark.adobe.com/video/dt3QqdTY2etglspark.adobe.com/post/wHId2ELej0ryv/
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Congratulations to Carmen-Mirela Butaciu and Manjula Maddi Gurumurthy for completing Creating Positive Digital Footprints and receiving their certificates of learning.
Digital citizenship is a topic that educators have to continue to be mindful of within their classrooms. Because so many tasks done today involve the use of technology, it is our responsibility to cover the elements of digital citizenship so that students are 2015-07-28-1438122198-6148637-cmrubinworldedmodocon2photo6500-thumbprepared and knowledgeable about the expectations. Digital citizenship skills have to be part of what we teach students, especially because we ask our students to do research, to collaborate using online tools and perhaps even be involved in social media. Each of these activities lead students to develop their online presence, and create their digital footprints. We have to address the rules of digital citizenship, continue to remind and model good practices and responsibilities. We want students to know how to use technology appropriately, be responsible and safe in the online learning environment.As educators, we not only have the responsibility to model good digital citizenship ourselves, but we have to help students understand what it means. We must provide opportunities for students to learn responsibly through technology and be sure that what we are asking them to use is appropriate. We need to take the time to thoroughly research any tool we are using for its appropriateness for students and make sure it is something that will serve a purpose and provide beneficial learning opportunities for students.With all of the resources available on the internet, it is easy for issues to arise. Students can find inappropriate content as the result of a search or may have questions about how to properly cite or how to determine the validity of a resource. By modeling good practices and using tools which help us to learn about digital citizenship we guide our students, and can make sure that we are doing our best to promote digital citizenship within and outside of our classrooms.One of the most beneficial parts of this is that students have a choice in what they are doing through the interactive lessons, and can see how their choices can have positive or negative effects on themselves and on others. It is a tremendous opportunity to learn, that is personalized and helps students to continually build their digital citizenship skills. There are always risks involved when learning with technology. We can do our best to protect students, to make sure they have all of the knowledge that they need but things will come up, and we should take these as learning opportunities, as teachable moments, to guide our next steps and to reinforce what it means to be a digital citizen today.
