OBJECTIVES:
- To develop our students’ creativity, problem solving skills and persistance.
- To get to know some current and future jobs and what they consist of.
- To become more familiar with the use of digital tools and to use them as a resource to create the different challenges.
- To acknowledge that the new technologies are a means of communication, an information source and tools to facilitate our work, both collaboratively and individually.
- To improve and promote the English language teaching and learning through collaborative work using the new technologies providing real communication among our students from the different member countries on the forum.
- To develop the ability of learning to learn in our students, learning how to manage with the information needed and to create their own challenges in the collaborative products.
- To develop our students' artistic competences through creations using the digital tools.
- To promote the idea of Europe among the students and the schools.
- To improve the students' level of English through its use.
COMPETENCES PROMOTED WITHIN THIS PROJECT AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS:
- Communication in foreign languages (developing foreign language skills through CLIL methodology and multilingual awareness).
- Digital competence (developing students and teachers digital skills through the use of digital tools and the TwinSpace platform ).
- Social and civic competences (developing European citizenship by giving value to differences, collaborating for common goals and respecting different points of view)
- Learning to learn (meta-cognitive strategies,improving motivation, autonomous/cooperative and discovering learning)
- Artistic competence (creating the logo)
- Peer learning (students learning with and from each other as fellow learners with the guide of a teacher)
CURRICULAR CONTENTS:
CONCEPTS
- Names of the professions in English: smart house designer, architect, genomics manager, etc.
- Scientific fields of vocabulary and grammatical structures related to these professions.
- Grammatical structures in present simple and past simple to ask questions to some people with these jobs.
PROCEDURES-
- Understanding some future jobs and what they consist of (in English and in their mother tongue).
- Choosing and making decisions to pick the logo or to be in an international group.
- Working in international teams in a collaborative way to make the final products.
- Using the digital tools to make the final products and to communicate with other members, like the Forum.
- Using the TwinSpace properly and following the rules and netiquette indications.
- Using the English language to communicate, interact and create collaborative products.
ATTITUDES
- Showing attitude of respect, tolerance and good behaviour related to netiquette when they interact and communicate with their project mates.
- Showing attitude of respect and citizenship when they use the new technologies and take into account the rules and directions about netiquette and safety on the Internet.
- Showing attitude of respect and tolerance towards all the professions and people participating in the project.
- Showing attitude of respect and tolerance towards the English language and its culture.
- Showing attitude of respect and tolerance towards the other participants in the project, their countries, their languages and their cultures.
OTHER SUBJECTS INVOLVED:
- English
- Science
- Arts and Crafts
- ICT
- Values