Open eTwinning Unit 4 - Collaborative work Activity

After watching the videos from the INTEF space and after a deep reflexion, I have just realised that I usually make the common mistakes that are showed in the video. For that reason, I am going to try to avoid my old way of thinking and create new ideas.

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. 

Moreover, students can join under the same platform to form inernational 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, two 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

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.

OBJECTIVES: 

ü  Know the different Education systems in Europe.

ü  Compare education systems in Europe.

EVALUATION:

Students will be avaluated by different rubrics created for this purpose. Rubrics will include the different steps followed. An initial rubric will assess the students´ opinion about the project; an 

intermediate ruvric will assess the kind of activities proposed and developed; Finally, a final rubric will assess both, students' individual work and team work.