About the project
It is a project that focuses on United Nations' 2030 Agenda - SDG11 on "Sustainable Cities and Communities". It is expected that by 2050, more than half of the world's population will be living in the cities. This will create problems for humanity. We need to take urgent action to make the cities more sustainable. Through this project, our students will work in groups from different schools and different countries and will discuss the problems, look for solutions, and design sustainable smart future cities using several web 2.0 tools and CospacesEDU or other VR apps or Minecraft or robotics.
AIMS
The aims of this project are:
- to raise awareness of SDGs and in particular of SDG 11
- to take action to achieve SDG 11
- to emphasize the importance of being an active responsible citizen
- to improve students’ abilities to communicate in English
- to create written texts on SDG11 and an ebook
- to enhance students’ and teachers’ ICT skills
- to cultivate students’ social and collaborative working skills in international teams
- to develop our students’ computational, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- to cover key competencies in the school curriculum
- to create VR content using Cospaces EDU
- to practice physical computing and robotics with the BBC micro:bit and smart technologies
- to improve our students’ 21st-century skills and prepare them for future jobs
- to promote safe online behavior
- to make students aware of copyright rules
- to raise awareness of STEM education and vocational education
- to use project-based learning
WORK PROCESS
The project will start in October and last at the end of June. Our students will work in groups. Each group will have students from different schools, and countries and will work on the subjects below while designing the cities: Transportation, Environment, Food, Structure (Buildings, etc), Waste, and the three R's (reduce, recycle, reuse) management, Green infrastructure, Renewable Energy, Education, Employment, Social activities, Clean water, Technology and Innovation, Air Quality, Economic Development, Reduction of Inequalities.
Work Calendar:
October: Introducing Twinspace and registering, getting to know schools/cities/countries, celebrating Europe Code Week 2021
November: Forming student groups. Online chat getting to know each other. Learning and finding out more about SDG11. Interviewing people.
December: Preparing posters, Logos. Creative writing. Essays on sustainable smart cities, e-book, and public service ads creation.
January -February: City planning, drawing, etc. Designing sustainable smart future cities using Cospaces EDU, safety rules, Safer Internet Day activities (Infographics, posters, animations).
March-April: Introducing Microbit, Codes, Algorithms, writing/drawing about dream smart home, forming national teams, sharing work is lightning, security system, humidity-heating, garden automation, door automation (each group will work on a different part of home)
May: Preparing videos, building an interactive page, creating an ebook, surveys
June: Evaluation, documentation, application for the QL
EXPECTED RESULTS
At the end of the project, we'll display the contents created by the students on Twinspace and on a blog to inspire other people.
Our final products will be :
- ebook about SDG11
- Sustainable smart future cities VR contents (CoSpaces Edu/common video)
- Sustainable smart home with Microbit (collaborative video)
- ebook about International Coding Events
- A public service ad about sustainable future cities (common video)