Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------project and kit entitled “Carpe Nuntium: Catch the
News”, where the critical elements of this approach
are illustrated by the whole strategy of the project
as the foreign language learning – listening,
speaking, reading and writing skills – springs from a
holistic programme. The main idea of the project is
to present to the world only positive news so as to
combat the situation existing in daily news bulletins
with their constant list of violence, disasters and
crises.
I choose to pursue with any passion is directly
related to my field.” Just as writers record notes
and artists make sketches, immersed learners are
constantly making connections to their subject.
The networked model of integration views the
curriculum of the project through a prism:
The transdisciplinary level comprises the
microscope view and the prism view. Fusion refers
to joining closely together elements previously
taught separately.
The immersed model of integration views the
curriculum in the project through a microscope:
It creates multiple dimensions and directions of
focus, and provides various avenues of exploration
and explanation. In this model, the students direct
the integration process. Only the students
themselves, knowing the intricacies and dimensions
of their field, can target the necessary resources, as
they reach out within and across their area.The
networked model is seen to a limited extent in
eTwinning projects, but we do have some good
examples. One of them is the project and kit
entitled “Rainbow Village - Build your village”, a
comprehensive project where students build a
village and give it real life.
I am confident we can enrich the framework
presented here, and be of help to other eTwinners
in their curricular integration endeavours!
In an intensely personal way, it filters all content
through the lens of interest and expertise. Students
are totally immersed in a field of study. Graduate
students are like this, or doctoral candidates, or
post-doctoral fellows. Yet there are young
eTwinning students who write incessantly about
dogs, do specific artwor