The European Dimension in eTwinning by Alexandra Tosi

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The European Dimensionin eTwinning by
Alexandra Tosi

• Study Visit
• Matera, 13 May 2008

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Collaboration
among schools, teachers and pupils
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EUROPEAN DIMENSION
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• What do we mean with European Dimension in an
  eTwinning project?
• How schools, teachers and pupils interact
• If and how they exchange their experiences
• If they have common pedagogical objectives
• How often and through which means they
  communicate
• If they really work together rather then work
  separately on parallel pathways and just exchange
  final outputs
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Work in parallel
Work together
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eTwinning is a teacher-driven project
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1 - Teachers

• Learn to find the right partner. A well matched
  colleague is one of the main success factors
• Constant collaboration through all project phases
• Professional training
• Mobility
• Visibility and reward for
• good practices

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2 - Schools

• An opportunity to
• become part of a collaborative learning
  community through a long term cooperation
• cross national borders and overcome isolation
• experiment and innovate
• get more visibility

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2 - Pupils
eTwinning helps to raise among pupils the
awareness of the cultural and linguistic
diversity of Europe, while building at the same
time a common and shared European citizenship
(that overlays the national one but never
replaces it)
through collaboration among pupils and peer
education
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Some examples

• Reciprocal evaluation

• Mixed working groups mixing roles and
  responsabilities across borders and create
  multinational working groups

• Crossed tasks involvement of the partner class
  as part of the national task Create exchange
  occasions not only for the pleasure of it or for
  the motivational reward, but as part of the task,
  as a necessary mean to accomplish a goal

• Provide at least for some direct collaboration,
  even if basic, that goes beyond the simple mail
  exchange and personal presentation

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European citizens of tomorrow
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Thank you!The European Dimension in eTwinning
Alexandra Tosi email a.tosi_at_indire.it http//et
winning.indire.it/ www.etwinning.net

• Matera, 13 May 2008