Motivating students through project work

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Motivating students through project work

• Adam Stepinski

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Motivating students through project work

• A few words about myself
• http//www.voki.com/mywebsite.php
• www.voki.com

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• Try to make
• your project different
• from students
• school daily routine ?

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• Boosting students engagement

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• Developing learners autonomy

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• Autonomous student
• motivated 29
• responsible 19
• self-confident 16
• open-minded 13
• creative 7

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• Autonomous teacher
• supporting 29
• flexible 23
• innovative 21
• enthusiastic 10
• reflective 8

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• What are the teachers like in your school?

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• What are the students like in your school?

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• What would you change in your school?

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• What does learners autonomy mean for teachers?

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• What does it mean for students?

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• - How can we promote and develop students
  autonomy in our projects?

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• What can it be limited by?

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• Inter-disciplinary projects

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• The big number of learning areas / school
  subjects in an interdisciplinary project will
  result in ...

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• An autonomous environment will lead to ...

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• Forming specialised teams (groups of students)
  working on specified fields and acting as experts
  in that particular area will benefit because ...

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• If we link school / subject matters with ethic
  issues and students everyday experiences, this
  will ...

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• Students words We are responsible for all the
  things we do / dont do mean that ...

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• Feeling the freedom from the constraints of the
  curriculum will lead to ...

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• When students face a challenge and they will
  successfully cope with it, they will ...

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• A greater possibility of modification of the
  instructional methodologies incorporated in the
  project (including visual, auditory, tactile and
  kinesthetic) will result in

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• Developing students' key competencies

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• communication in the mother tongue ,
• communication in foreign languages,
• mathematical competence and basic competences in
  science and technology ,
• digital competence,
• learning to learn,
• social and civic competences,
• sense of initiative and entrepreneurship,
• cultural awareness and expression.

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• How often do you use a computer?

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• Do you have this at home?

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• New subjects in the future school
•  Which would be useful to learn about?

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• I would like to become after graduation a
  person...

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• What sort of skills and competencies do students
  want for themselves?
• Are they really important?

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• Structure
• of an interdisciplinary project

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• Clues from the comic strips
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• Balancing between the educational and enteraining
  dimensions of the activity

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• Use of media resources
• and attractive means of communication

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• 'Living Darfur' by Mattafix
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vqQwCCm-H-sU

• 'Zombie' by
• the Cranberries
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v6Ejga4kJUts

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• IRIN Films
• http//www.irinnews.org/filmtv.aspx

• 'Facing History and Ourselves'
• http//www.facinghistory.org/

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• http//topdocumentary
• films.com/

• www.missioneurope.eu

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• Some e- tools to motivate students

• www.pixton.com

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• http//dfilm.com

• http//voicethread.com

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• http//prezi.com/

• http//edu.glogster.com
• http//sunrise651.edu.glogster.com/what-do-they-li
  ke/

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• www.myebook.com

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• http//digitalhistory.unl.edu/

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• The Exhibit tool
• http//simile.mit.edu/exhibit/
• An example
• http//www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/examples/pre
  sidents/presidents.html

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• The Timeline tool
• http//simile.mit.edu/timeline
• An example
• http//simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/jfk/jfk.ht
  ml

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• We need to pump up students motivation all the
  time ?

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• Ice breakers
• from
• the Modules
• http//www.etwinning.net/en/pub/inspiration/module
  s.htm

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• My beloved ice breakers

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• Unfinished statements
• Would you ratheror
• TV interview

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• Some ideas for motivating projects incorporating
  History, Social Studies and Geography
• http//www.spicynodes.org/a/4ec51a9da2dd98004d7325
  c39639c525

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• www.spicynodes.org

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• www.spiderscribe.net
• http//www.teachertrainingvideos.com/spider/index.
  html

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• www.teachertraining
• videos.com/

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• Some clues to consider while working on an
  interdisciplinary project
• 1. when you decide on the topic, make sure that
  the project will stimulate your students to act
  creatively,
• 2. (in my opinion) its better when a project
  refers to different subjects and fields of
  learning,
• 3. make sure that the topic, activities, ways of
  communication are interesting for your students,

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• 4. while formulating the topic and deciding on
  the content
• -try to make them simple and catchy,
• -try to refer them to your students life and
  experiences,
• -dont concentrate too much on the educational
  aspects (the project should attract, not scary
  off)
• 5. give your students as much autonomy as
  possible,
• 6. your project should make a change (ways of
  work, ways of thinking, gaining new skills and
  abilities, establishing new relations),

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• 7. allow them to decide on the electronic media
  and technology they would like to use in the
  project,
• 8. make sure that the project will let your
  students brainstorm ideas and discover solutions
  by original thinking processes,
• 9. try to match all the things you do within your
  project with students interests,

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• 10. vary activities balancing carefully between
  the educational and the enjoyable ones,
• 11. divide your work into smaller chunks
  (stages),
• 12. try to follow some order from specifics to
  more general matters or the other way round,
• 13. try to incorporate songs, documentaries,
  movies (the participants belong to the media
  generation),

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• 14. let them use various computer applications
  (your students are also called the Google
  generation),
• 15. make sure that all the participants work
  on/create something together (not just add their
  materials),
• 16. you can appoint your students as experts in
  their national issues (social matters, history
  etc.) while your partners will have a similar
  role in case of the issues of their countries,

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• 17. evalute your activities (e.g. on a special
  forum on the project site),
• 18. make sure your students create something of
  value,
• 19. inform parents about the project and see how
  to involve them,

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• 20. mix pupils from partner schools in pairs or
  in mixed groups to ensure that each pupil has at
  least one partner,
• 21. integrate the project into the curriculum by
  doing the work during teaching hours so that it
  is a natural contribution from pupils (and not
  perceived as extra work).

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• May your projects be motivational,
  inspirational, engagiging, creative
• and funny!
• Thank you for your attention?
• Adam Stepinski
• stepadam_at_poczta.onet.pl