etwinning & 21 century learning
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This is the presentation from the eTwinning Webinar 6, December 2013TRANSCRIPT
eTwinning: towards a 21st Century Pedagogy
Anne Gilleran – pedagogical manager
eTwinning Central Support Service
Anne who?
I have been involved in many projects involving schools, teachers and school leaders
I come from Dublin, IrelandCareer:university lecturerschool counsellorhead teacherresearcherexpert in ICT for education
worked in Brussels for the European Schoolnet since 2001
Pedagogical manager for eTwinning since 2005
Topics of this presentation
Reflections on the educational demands of the 21 century– Societal demands– Communication demands– Curricular demand– Teaching demands
Demands of a new social order
Where the only certainty is the certainty of constant and continuing change
The changing world of work
The KnowledgeSociety
More global than schools can prevision for
Demands of Mass Communication
The explosion of technology and the internet that potentially puts the access to this information at everybody’s fingertips
Schools are changing – more autonomy & more accountability
Curricula are changing less formal
More enquiry based learningLess rote learning
More focus on collaborative learning – higher order thinking skills
Demands of Changing Curriculum
Demand of Shifting Educational Worlds
Formal
Closed
Top down
Teaching
Consumption
Curriculum driven
Informal
Open
Bottom up
Learning
Creation
Life as curriculum
Formal Informal
Changes in perceived roles
Changes in practices
Changes in Societal Expectations
Demands of Modern Youth Culture
Consumers CreatorsCollaborators
Leaders of tomorrow
What capabilities do they require as learners?
Key Capabilities for learners
Creativity, ingenuity
Collaboration,community, team work
Conformity, compliance
Interaction, noise, teacher as facilitator
working alone, silence, teacher rules
Key capabilities20th century learners
Key capabilities 21st century learners
The teaching context summarised
The children we teach are changing
The core values of education are going through a radical change as the knowledge society impacts on institutions and ways of instruction that date mainly to the 19th Century.
We (as teachers) are mostly still seen as conservative in our methods and our views about learning.
A new literacy set underpinned by competencies
What is necessary now in educational thinking?
European key competencies
Why eTwinning?
What’s in eTwinning for the Teachers?
A different way to deliver the curriculum
Natural way to use ICT in the classroom
Teachers are free to choose subject and method to carry out the project
Provides opportunity for professional cooperation with other teachers
An easy way into transnational collaboration
What’s in eTwinning for the Pupils?The possibility of more authentic learning
Using ICT and developing digital literacy / abilities.
Richer curriculum experience; geography, MFL, mother tongue, other history viewpoints, different takes on science..
The non-ICT aspects: co-operation, planning, taking responsibility, making choices…
Develops a better understanding of cultures, habits, religions
The play ethic: because projects are usually stimulating, motivating and fun for the pupils & teachers
What’s in eTwinning for the School?
Easy-entry to the world of international projects
A level of built-in quality in the project because of the quality labels
Opportunity for personal professional development of teachers & school leaders
Greater visibility for the school- Parents are impressed
The opportunity to become part of a collaborative learning community
2 examples of projects
Recap
