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PROYECTO: UNITE OUR CITIES AND ENJOY CULTURAL DIVERSITY

  • Curso 2016-17/ 2017-18

    Información del proyecto

    The main objective of this project is that secondary students share their knowledge of the cultural, artistic and natural heritage of their respective cities with other European students, of the same age and educational level, using new technologies and English as a target language .
    The result of this project is the creation of a blog on the heritage of the partner schools' cities.
    This project is divided into three parts:
    1. The students presentation and their schools.
    2. The study of the heritage of our cities
    3. A game: the patrimonial compatibility test.
    This project requires a fluid contact among the students because they must search and select information about the highlights of their cities, they must elaborate reports and share them through twinspace. The teachers will review the elaborated projects as well as the final documents to avoid mistakes.
    The partners schools decide about which the most interesting aspects of heritage are. Each school may work about different issues but every one should present their conclusions through presentations, videos, articles, padlets or prints. All the projects must be original materials to share on the blog.
    The partners can use any of the following means, padlet, emails or twinspace to make the collaborative work.
    To conclude the project, the students will elaborate a battery of questions about aspects of their cities' heritage. This test will have to be solved by partners, through videoconference or on line. This is really a game.The students could check by themselves their degree of knowledge about the studied aspects.

    Objetivos

    Goals:
    1. Explore and enrich our knowledge with the study of local heritage diversity.
    2. Develop collaborative decision-making techniques.
    3. Use ICT tools to develop the project and to produce the final product.
    4. Develop language skills in English while gaining confidence in their use.
    5. Internationalize the classrooms sharing experiences with European peers.

    Proceso de trabajo

    Phase I: The project members will have a month to introduce the students and schools. Any ICT tool can be used for this. The condition is to use English as a target language. Spanish can be used by the partner schools whose students study Spanish as the second or third language.
    Phase II:
    A) The associated schools will have an other month to work with their students, at least, three interesting places of their city (cultural, natural and historical heritage). Besides they must elaborate the final materials and products to share through twinspace.
    B) The third month of the project will be dedicated to the creation of the blog in a coordinated way in order to do this, mixed groups (from all associated schools) will be formed. The materials will be published in English.
    Phase III: Connection through video conference to carry out the patrimonial compatibility test among partner schools.
    Time spent on the project: approximately one school term (three months).

    Resultados esperados

    1. Create a blog or Website that will be shared onTwinspace.
    2. Increase the awarenesses of European citizenship in the students and the participating teachers.
    3. Improve the participants' English language skills.
    4. Develop the teamwork skills in the students and the teachers.
    5. Integrate ITC in the development of teaching practice.
    6. Get personal enrichment through cultural diversity.
    7. Internationalize the school thanks to the involvement of teachers from different departments and the use of the school's social networks.