Using eTwinning

Anne Gilleran – pedagogical manager

eTwinning Central Support Service

Good Morning

What is eTwinning?

It has a website

It is a brand!

It is official!

It involves this organisation

What is creativity?

What is creativity?

http://answergarden.ch/view/75228

What did you emphasise?

Test your creativity 1

How many different uses can you think of for using a plastic shopping bag?

Individually 30 seconds

Turn to you neighbour: share your ideas – 30 seconds

The test measures divergent thinking across four sub-categories:

•Fluency - how many uses you can come up with

•Originality – how uncommon those uses are

•Flexibility – how many areas your answers cover

Elaboration – level of detail in responses

Creativity in European Education

Europe 2020

European Digital Agenda

Institute for Prospective Technological Studies

Up-scaling Creative Classrooms in Europe

The legendary runner Flash Fleetfoot was so fast that his friends said he could turn off the light switch and jump into bed before the room got dark. On one occasion Flash proved he could do it.

How?  ( Answer at the end of the presentation)

Test your creativity 2. A puzzle

@220,700+ teachers+

eTwinning can be used creatively ….

through:

Intercultural learning

Authentic learning

Shared professional development

Support for educational ideas

Exploring educational ideas together

Teachers professional network

eTwinning is about…….

EDUCATION– Exploring pedagogical methodologies such

as project based and inquiry based learning

eTwinning is about….

Learning– Intercultural learning– Authentic learning– Contextual learning– Personal learning

eTwinning is about

Skills and competency development– Team working– Researching– Choosing– Analysing– Creating

eTwinning is about

People– Shared professional development– Support for educational ideas– Exploring educational ideas together– Teachers professional network

eTwinning provides the means to allow teachers to do things differently.

Failure can also be an integral part of eTwinning

A video example: The Rainbow Village

Watch on YouTube

Welcome to eTwinning…..

“We must be the change we want to see in the world.”

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Flash Fleetfoot

Answers?

A final puzzle for you to ponder.

There is an ancient invention still used in parts of the worlds today that allows people to see through walls.

What is it? ( answers at the coffee break)

Thank you for your attention!

eTwinning portal:www.etwinning.net

Contacts:anne.gilleran@eun.org