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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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Activities concerning learning to code were
conducted using various applications with different
levels of complexity. Students were involved in
coding by Scottie Go!, where they made programs
by using blocks and mobile phones. After that they
were introduced to Micro:bit devices and they made
projects that can be used in different subjects.
Robots and Lego Mindstorm were used to raise
students’ interest and to inspire them for learning
programming in the future.
Different outdoors activities, sports and exploring of
the surroundings created a nice balance and offer
alternative ways of spending free time for students.
All these activities lead to enormous motivation and
interest among the students.
During the short-term visits all the activities were
carried out collaboratively. Presentation sections
were followed by discussions about the participants’
countries, schools, everyday lives. Different
activities concerning using ICT in educational
purpose were carried out in groups where in order
to achieve goals students need to work
collaborative, to do some research, to make
conclusions, final projects and to evaluate the
projects of other groups.
Groups were formed taking into account in each
group to have participants from different countries.
Activities concerning advantages and disadvantages
from using technology were carried out. They raised
discussions and debates on the subject. Theme of
the project is really provocative and inspiring for
the students so they had the lead role in most of
the activities. Teachers had just a supportive role
and were responsible for the management of the
project.
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