Second training/ learning activity

  • Second training/ learning activity meeting took place in Tartu, Estonia from 11 till 17 of April 2018. During the activity students have stayed at Estonian students’ host families. The first day started with a wonderful welcome ceremony where the Estonian students showed students from other countries traditional dances and sang traditional songs. After the ceremony participants were divided into  national groups and one Estonian student showed  the whole school, which was really interesting, because everyone got to see the similarities and differences compared to their hometown school. The students did a wonderful job leading other participants through their school. In the afternoon the students had the chance to carve butter knives or make soap, while the Estonian hosts prepared a lovely buffet, which had a variety of traditional Estonian food on it. The students who prepared the buffet did an outstanding job and gave their guests a nice impression of what a traditional Estonian meal looks like.
    On the second day the whole group met in town at the “Kissing Students Fountain” in front of the town hall. It was the day planned for outdoor activities. First the students were welcomed by the Deputy Mayor Madis Lepajoe were teachers and students learned interesting facts about, not only Tartu, but also Estonia. After the visit with the Deputy Mayor,  a little tour through the city lead by one Estonian student, who gave the participants the information about sights and also read questions which had to be answered on a smartphone. The tour through the city was well planned and gave everyone a nice impression of Tartu. It was an interesting way of learning with smartphones, according to the projects' objectives. In the afternoon the whole group went to the “Estonian Sports and Olympic Museum”, where the students found out a lot about sports in Estonia but also had the chance to try out some sports themselves. Everyone enjoyed this amazingly planned day where the real balance among smartphones and sport was achieved.
    The weekend was planned for sport activities. It started with a trip to Pühajärve on Saturday morning. It is a village outside of Tartu, where the participants went for a little hike along the lake. After that the participant were enjoying the “Veski Sports and Holiday Camp”. The students played different sports or just talked to each other. 
    Monday was planned for using ICT in educational way, more specifically for learning to code. All students were divided into small groups of three to four students and they had one hour to build and program a robot, which afterwards had to enter a rope-pulling competition against the other robots. Some students started right away to work hard on their robot, others needed some time to get into the group-working process, but all groups finished on time and had terrific results. The rope-pulling competition of the robots was a blast for everyone. After the winner was found the students had to work in small groups again. They wrote poems and made videos before they started their final task. Lastly the students had to brainstorm about the topic of the program “Find your Balance” and had to reflect their own cellphone usage.

    School sightseeing

     

     

    Traditional dancing

     

    Workshops

     

     

     

    tour through the city of Tartu.

     

     

    Outdoor activies in Otepää

     

     

    Robots are finished. Let the games begin.

     

     

     

    Advantages and disadvantages of using technology, students' presentations 

     

    Excellent firewall party