eTwinning

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eTwinning ECNAIS CONFERENCE Vilnius Rogelio
Segovia
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eTwinning in shortWHAT IS IT

• eTwinning is a programme of the European
  Commission to foster
• (long term) partnerships of pairs of schools
• Across countries
• Around innovative pedagogical projects
• . Using ICT
• . And sharing good practice
• Ambitious goals, in 3 years around 10 of the
  european schools should participate
• A very big test bed for new ideas, a collective
  learning arena

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eTwinningthe expected benefits

• Schools, teachers and pupils know other cultures
  (and educational cultures) and learn to work
  together overcoming and enriching from
  differences
• Schools, teachers and pupils learn how to work in
  a multilingual environment
• Schools, teachers and pupils learn how to work
  over the distance using modern communication
  tools, and ICT

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Fundamental skills in the European Union
knowledge society

• Skills that are key
• in the IT based knowledge society they will work
  in a similar way in which they will work in
  companies, government or live in society
• In this area of the world with no comparison in
  the richness and diversity of cultural heritage,
  but the area of the world in which cooperation
  requires the strongest conscious effort
• In the area of the world in which we are
  developing the most advanced democracy concepts
  (including the eGoverment concepts)

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Top level political goalsObjectives of eTwinning

• Building up an European dimension in education
• Demonstrating the potential of ICT (Information
  and Communication Technologies) for schools
  networking
• Giving visibility and recognition to the good
  work of teachers and trainers

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1. Building up an European dimension in education

• A political priority, requested by EU Heads of
  State and of Government at the Barcelona Council,
  2002
• Towards the knowledge society (Lisbon strategy)
• Initiated, designed and financed by the
  Commission as the main action of the eLearning
  Programme
• To be managed in close cooperation between the
  Commission and Member States

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2. Demonstrating the potential of ICTfor
schools cooperation and networking

• Following a strong effort by Member States, most
  schools in Europe are connected to Internet and
  have an acceptable informatics equipment
• The real challenge now is a pedagogical, good,
  and creative use of these new tools
• While the emphasis has long been put on
  technology, the highest value of ICT tools lies
  on communication and collaboration, over borders,
  across cultures.

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3. Giving visibility and recognition to the
good work of teachers and trainers

• eTwinning is first and foremost a teachers
  action
• Its full name is fostering schools twinning via
  Internet and promotion of teacher training
• eTwinning does not build on external funding but
  on the professionalism and motivation of teachers
• eTwinning seeks to identify and highlight good
  practice in the pedagogical use of ICT and to
  facilitate contacts and exchanges between teachers

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What is new in eTwinning?

• eTwinning is a small scale, user-friendly
  exercise, ideally paving the way to
  trans-national projects
• eTwinning must be kept simple, light and personal
• eTwinning is a learning exercise for teachers,
  for schools and for the new integrated programme

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How does eTwinning programme managed?

• eTwinning works by providing support, guidance,
  motivation and recognition to participants
• eTwinning is based in two levels of support
• European level CSS - Central Support Services
• National and regional level NSS - National
  Support Services
• eTwinning will only succeed if there is a good
  and permanent cooperation between all actors

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European dimension in education

• Traditional school exchanges
• Most schools in Europe have already experienced
  traditional language exchanges. The main goals of
  these are to practice a foreign language and to
  enjoy a full immersion in a foreign culture.
• A collaborative project can be defined as an
  activity (in general, involving more subjects) on
  a certain theme developed by teachers in both
  schools.
• Advanced school twinning
• School twinning can be described as the most
  elaborated form of schools exchanges.
• It happens when two schools from two different
  countries start working together over a long
  period of time.
• The schools agree on common pedagogical
  objectives and involve as many people as possible
  decision-makers, headmasters, teachers, pupils
  and their parents.

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European dimension in education

• Who twinns
• Whole school twinning Linked to town twinning,
  Linked to long time exchanges, Linked to other
  Socrates actions, New partnership
• School managers twinning Peer to peer project on
  school organisational issues. Mutual exchange and
  dialogue on decision making issues. Organisation
  of a whole school twinning project
• Teachers twinning Curricular option, Cross
  curricular option, Activities based, Peer to
  peer training
• Teams of teachers twinning, Librarians twinning,
  School supervisors twinning, etc
• To learn from each other, to experiment topgether
  on innovation

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European dimension in education

• Curricular
• Art
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Citizenship
• Economics
• Environmental education
• Ethics
• Foreign languages
• Geography
• History
• Computer science/ICT
• Language and literature
• Mathematics
• Media education
• Music

• Cross curricular themes
• Citizenship
• Cultural heritage
• Environmental education
• Intercultural education
• Arts education
• Peace education
• Sciences
• Specific themes related to children with special
  needs
• Media studies

• Activities based themes
• Sports
• Music
• Drama
• Visual arts
• Fund raising
• Humanitarian actions
• Media

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potential of ICTthe eTwinning portal
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registration
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desktop
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twinSpace
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Giving visibility and recognition to the good
work of teachers and trainers
The Gallery
National Awards
eTwinning Label
showcases
eTwinning Quality Label
European Awards
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Giving visibility and recognition to the good
work of teachers and trainersto learn from each
other

• Working groups
• Meetings of teachers
• Pedagogical Advisory Group
• National conferences
• Annual conference

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Thank you for your attention!For more
informationwww.eTwinning.netcss-helpdesk_at_eun.org
If you have further questionsrogelio.segovia_at_c
ec.eu.int