Open eTwinning - Unit 5

I have been thinking about my final project and this is not an easy task. I have to include everything so here we go...

CURRICULAR INTEGRATION:

·         All subjects can participate

·         Aimed at Secondary Education

·         Language: English

·         Time: 1 school year (students will dedicate between 1 and 3 hours per week to the project divided into the subjects involved)

CONTENTS	OBJECTIVES	METHODOLOGY
ü How education is achieved in different countries. ü Education systems in Europe. ü Running education at schools ü Reflexion on the subjects offered at schools and their importance.	ü  Know the different Education systems in Europe. ü  Compare education systems in Europe. ü  Know and compare the different subjects taught at schools. ü  Learning to learn fostering autonomous learning in decision making and searching of information. ü  Learn collaborative work working in groups, dividing work and sharing information.	ü Use TwinSpace to exchange information. ü Use TwinSpace to make videoconferences. ü Create a wikiSpace to share information of the project. ü Create an e-book comparing some education systems in Europe.

COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION

Students will work in groups of 4 to create the materials.

Students will also work in mixed nationality groups to create the materials.

Students will collaborate with other partners by means of the TwinSpace and a wikispace to share information.

Teachers will also collaborate with other partners facilitating materials and helping students.

My project "EDUCATION: COMPARE AND LEARN" can be developed under collaborative research and opinion activities.

First of all, I will make partners collaborate in the planning of everything involving the project: objectives, activities, evaluation rubrics, etc... For that purpose, teachers can use the TwinSpace to share ideas and have live meetings in which we can have the opportunity to know each other and fasten boudaries. 

USE OF TECHNOLOGY

The different teachers involved in the project will select the ICT used for the students such as infographic tools, video creation tools, sound tools, etc... which will be available for the students in their TwinSpace.

Students can add and use other ICT tools that they like or can suit the project.

Moreover, students can join under the same platform to form international teams to work on the subject. The first activity and one of the most important has to do with the sharing of different models of Education in the different countries. To work on this subject, students can develop different tasks:

1. An opinion forum to debate questions proposed by the teachers:

Among the questions:

- Do yo like your Education System? Why? Give reasons and examples if possible

- Good / Bad things of Education in your country.

     2. A research collaborative task to define Education and other issues relating it.

For this task, three ways of study are proposed:

A. The creation of a common wiki in which students can define their Education systems.

B. International team work in which each group will be assigned a topic. Topics will be very varied such as: 

- Laws regulating Education

- Public Education

- Private Education

- Schools

- Education systems

- Subjects of study

- Others relating education

C. Students will use videoconferences to work together and share ideas.

Students could share the information in a common web such as Dropmark ( to share and store information for later use ). This information will be later used to create the final product which is an online e-book describing the different Education systems and comparing them.

RESULTS, IMPACT AND DISTRIBUTION

The project will be evaluated at different levels:

Ø  Students: by means of questionnaires and rubrics.

Ø  Teachers: by means of questionnaires and rubrics.

The feedback of the project will be showed in a kind of e-book shared by all the members and the activities will be also showed in the school websites.

EVALUATION: The project will be integrated into the different curricula of the subjects involved through the achievement of one or various learning standards or assessed contents.