Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. George Orwell
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured. Edward de Bono
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A success story
During my presentation
During my presentation
During my presentation
With our work and throughout the program Creative Class , yet in its very early stages, we took part in Microsoft Partners in Learning National competition for Innovative Teachers 2013 and we finally got the 3rd place nationwide.
The photos are from the project presentaton day , of the prize given to class president and the given gifts to the students
All the above collages are created with Autocollage
Description
The "Creative Class" project is a teaching approach in the curriculum for the fifth grade of the primary school based on Unesco's ICT Competency Framework for teachers so pupils to conquer its first stage, which is Technology Literacy, and to enable them to build a repertoire of techniques, skills and means of commitment in order to use ICT to learn more efficiently.
The main project's idea is the shift from a classroom where teacher is the source of the knowledge to a classroom where teacher is the guide to knowledge sources, where teacher is focused on facilitating and guiding rather than distributing information, where pupils learn through projects, discussions and research instead following prescribed learning paths.
The whole project is a journey , a quest where pupils are called banded through its activities , to achieve certain ICT skills in order to use ICT tools to support their learning.
Aims & Objectives
The aims and objectives of this project are manifold :
Main Targets:
For pupils to develop their:
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Creativity
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Team work and Collaborative skills
(with real time and asynchronous collaboration)
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Innovation
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Self reliance
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Ability to analyse and synthesise
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Ability to evaluate and question.
In addition and during the development of the activities lots of other targets were set to serve curriculum demands. Such were:
educational :
- to develop the students' intercultural competence by:
a) providing them with a glimpse of values, lifestyles and customs different from theirs, b) helping them acquire intercultural knowledge so that they can effectively interact in every day situations and
c) having them express their emotions, feelings and way of looking at the world
- to sensibilize students to “education to citizenship” by:
a) helping students to explore the multicultural and multilanguage character of the EU
b) presenting to students the EU's policies for the preservation of linguistic diversity of spoken languages into the European territory.
a) helping students to understand foreign cultures
b) encouraging students to learn foreing languages and
b) encouraging them to respect other cultures
- to senzibilize students for their online presence and security by:
a) creation of an online community
b) interaction with peers from abroad
pedagogical :
- to motivate students to improve their use of the English language through the practice with people of their age
- to make the students actively participate to the learning process by making them reflect on the their strategies
- to develop the students' autonomy
- to develop the students' cognitive and metacognitive skills
- to reinforce the students' practice on languages through the use of ICT
- to have the students work and communicate collaboratively
- to develop ICT skills
- to develop attitudes against cuberbullying
didactical :
- to develop specific skills and abilities : phonological, grammatical, lexical, mathematical, historical, strategic and pragmatic ones
Achievements/Evaluation
Through the "Creative Class" project pupils ...
-Developed their digital literacy
-Learned to apply the acquired knowledge in real-life situations
(by creating their own TV channel and broadcasting their on live show , by creating their own advertising company which undertakes to create and promote an original idea for a product or service.)
-Learned to present a concept by using ICT tools
(by searching images and creating photoshows , interactive ppt presentations, stop animation movies, original songs etc.)
-Learned to express themselves in different by the conventional written and oral ways
-Learnt attitudes about their presence on social media in relevance to their personal security , their privacy and how to avoid cyber bullying.
-Gained confidence through developing new skills and abilities
(by learning a programming language and creating their own applications.)
Teaching approaches and techiques
What characterize this project is flexibility. Flexibility not only to the use of web 2.0 and ICT tools but to the teaching approaches and techniques as well, so, during the project development, several different teaching approaches and techniques were used in order help pupils to develop all kinds of intelligences (according to the multiple inteligence theory) and to convert the traditional curriculum approach into a creative , alternative and enjoyable experience. Those where :
More Clues (statistics):
For the project "Creative Class" :
20 pupils worked for more than
40 activities to be complited during more than
147 didactical hours so as to be produced more than
182 different types of files (27 from the teacher and 155 from the pupils) by using more than
31 programs and on line services.
More statistics
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Teaching scenarios
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Project-based learning
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Game-based learning
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Inquiry-based learning
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Cooperative and Collaborative learning
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Teaching with Art
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Webquest
Software and Web 2.0 tools used during the project development
Hardware used during the project development
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1 projector
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1 photocamera
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1 videocamera
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1 tripod for the above cameras
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1 set PC speakers
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1 printer
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
Galileo Galilei
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6 laptops
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2 desktops
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6 mouses (wireless or not)
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1 USB hub (for the above mouses connection)
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1 USB flash drive
In addition pupils created voluntary the following more than 91 files in their spare time.
6 stop motion movies,
65 photoshows,
12 songs,
2 movies and
3 PPT presentations ( one of which interactive)
in order to express some aspects of their personality.
Raising that way the number of the created files during the program at a total of
more than 293 files
All of the above numbers are approximate as the files are much more and in the working hours are not included the preparation for the activities and the work at home.
And another one
Our maths program, with the title "M@ths - Where we are and where we go" which constitute one of the essential part of the "Creative Class" program, evaluated from eTwinning National Support Service (N.S.S.) and awarded with the National eTwinning Quality Label. One more big moment for our program.
... and another one
Our maths program, with the title "M@ths - Where we are and where we go" which constitute one of the essential part of the "Creative Class" program, after the evaluation of the N.S.S and the National Quality Label evaluated also from eTwinning Central Support Service (C.S.S.) and awarded with the European eTwinning Quality Label. One more big moment for our program, one more happy day for all.
One more recognition for the project...
The scratch application with the name "The Roman Empire - A Legendary Journey" for the relative to the Roman Empire history chapter succesfully participated in one more European Competion.
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