MULTIDISCIPLINARY FLIPPED LEARNING WITH ICT
ABOUT OUR PARTNERSHIP
MAIN COORDINATOR'S WELCOME
Dear Teammates,
I must say that, we are really contender, industrious and terrific teachers who come from eight different countries (Turkey, Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Portugal, France, Spain and Latvia). As combative teachers, we worked hard and we won this great race. We have earned this European Union Project which is difficult to achieve by working in big cooperation, harmony and perseverance. As you know, we will try to use an innovative and student-centred pedagogical education model - Flipped Learning - during the implementation period of the project. I hope we will increase the quality of teaching and learning in our schools via this project. Beside this, I believe that this project not only will improve our students' success but also will provide great experience for them. Now, it is time to work more and produce high quality outcomes for our students, our schools and our education system.
I am sending thanks to all my teammates and I wish you more success.
Sincerely,
Mrs Ayla Savaşçı
The Main Project Coordinator
Our Tasks
2015 - First Year-First Semester: Promoting Computer Literacy
The aim for this semester is to make students work as working parties and educate them about Internet does and don’t as well as teach them how to use a number of ICT tools, this knowledge is essential to the success of the project. Beside this, teachers will improve their digital competences, too.
1.SEPTEMBER: Project Meeting-1. Teachers Seminar in Portugal where we will divide responsibility, and set up ways of communication between students (for example; Google drive, project blog, YouTube channels, e-mail accounts).
2.SEPTEMBER: Taking ICT Course: Teachers will take a mini course about ICT tools in Portugal Vocational School by ICT teacher. They will learn how to make a narrated video lecture using screencasting softwares such as Jing, Snagit, or Camtasia and Movie Maker. And they also will learn how to use some rich platforms to add links to other helpful resources and create discussion forums. 3.SEPTEMBER: Preparing Newsletter: All partners will write Newsletter about Portugal mobility.
4.OCTOBER: Introducing the project: We will introduce the project in school and the municipality using school networks and if possible mass media (such as local News paper).
5.OCTOBER: Creating a project logo: Teachers will prepare a 5 minute video related with how to design a logo by using a screencasting computer program and then upload it to project’s web site and send it to students. Students will watch the video and then they will work on designing the logo within their internal group. The final logo will be chosen during the meeting in Italy.
6.NOVEMBER: International working groups will be formed. All students will write an introduction about themselves.
7.NOVEMBER: Project Meeting-2. Student exchange in Italy. Students will have workshops to learn more about the ethical behavior in digital environments (Internet ethic etc.) as well as look into safety guidelines for these environments. Students are then to convey their learning to an audience of their younger peers.
8.NOVEMBER: Students will learn how to make a movie as well as digital posters from teacher’s movie and then they will prepare a movie or poster about their learning related with Internet ethic.
9.DECEMBER: Preparing a tutorial about how to make a movie-The national work groups will make a tutorial in their native language about how to make a movie.
10.DECEMBER: Students in the international work groups will interview each other and make a presentation about their group. The presentation will be shared in the project portal shared space.
11.DECEMBER: Newsletter about Italy mobility. Students share their experience with their classmates.
2016 - First Year - Second Semester: Promoting Intercultural Awareness
This semester is called "Breaking down Barriers” and the semester’s goal include promoting students’ cultural/intercultural awareness, clarifying cultural identities, and challenging preconceptions. Students will get to know each other at personal, institutional, cultural levels as well as EU using ICT-tools such as Gap-minder.
12.JANUARY: Teachers will prepare a video about the the cultural information and the connection between cultures and send it to students.
13.JANUARY: International Pen Pals. The students will be investigating cultures other than their own and teaching about ours by communicating with International pen pals using ICT. Students exchange letters, e-mails and videos including information about themselves, their hobbies, families, villages, subjects and educational systems at their schools as well as different aspects of their cultures. In the class time, students will share what they have learned from other students with classmates. This activity will continue during this semeter.
14.FEBRUARY: Project Meeting-3 Student exchange in Spain. All international work groups will produce a movie or podcast where they discuss similarities and differences between the different partner countries.
15.FEBRUARY: Newsletter about Spain mobility.
16.MARCH: Teachers will prepare a 5minute video related with how to design a e-book by using a screencasting computer program and send it to students.
17.MARCH: Producing e-book: The students in the work groups will produce an e-book about their own country.
18. APRIL: Project Meeting-4- Student Exchange in Latvia. During this mobility will reflect on the work which been carried out so far. Preparation for the first year report.
19. APRIL: Newsletter about the Latvia mobility.
20. APRIL: Students share their experience with their classmates.
21. MAY: Creating an online scrapbook: The students will create an online scrapbook (Smilebox.com) about their pen pal using adjectives/phrases/pictures that describe their culture and personality traits. They will share it with the other group as well as their pen pal.
Poland – mobility May - June
22. JUNE: Project Meeting - 5- Transnational Meeting of Teachers in Portugal. Evaluation of the first year’s results. Students analyze and discuss what they have learned about each other and give short presentations.
2016 - Second Year - First Semester: Promoting Creativity and Entrepreneurship
The aim of this semester is to increase entrepreneurial skills in students promote creative thinking via using ICT tools. During this semester students will have an opportunity to discover themselves, develop their personal, entrepreneur and leadership skills by working alone and in groups.
23.September: Project Meeting-6- Student exchange in Poland. Workshops to learn more about Entrepreneurship. Project meeting.
24.September: Newsletter about the Poland mobility. Students share their experiences with their classmates.
25.October: Preparing a Flipbook of Success Stories –Students will research and watch videos on success stories from business world. After gathering information about success stories, they will choose ten success stories and prepare a flipbook (e-magazine) about them. In class time students will compare different stories so they will learn and find great inspiration for building a business from the bottom up. (National work groups)
26.November: Teachers will prepare a 5minute video related with how to design an photo book by using a screencasting computer program and send it to students.
27.November: All national work groups will make a tutorial about making a photo book in their native language.
28.December: Project Meeting-7- Student exchange in France. Students create a photo book about their hometowns using opposites. (International work groups)
29. December: Newsletter about the France mobility. Students share their experiences with their classmates.
2017 - Second Year-Second Semester: Promoting Language Skills
The topic of this semester is using ICT-tools in language studies. We know that language and communication skills are crucial for students’ success in school and beyond. So in this semester we want to improve our students’ language and communication skills using ICT tools.
30.January: Conjunctions-Teachers will prepare a video introducing the vocabulary and types of conjunctions.
31.January: Preparing online essay book using conjunctions-The grammar for this unit is subordinating, coordinating and correlative conjunctions. During the duration of this activity, students will try to create and correct sentences, find conjunctions in real world text. And then they will write an essay of 2 or more paragraphs using conjunctions. All essays will be collected in e-book and publish in the project web site.
32.February: Project Meeting-8- Student exchange in Lithuania. Debate club. A competition between different international work groups. Students try to use their English to communicate and debate in the international groups.
33.February: Newsletter about Lithuania. Students share their experiences with their classmates.
34.March: Folktales’ e-booklet/podcast/movie. Students will work on the collection, translation, and writing of folktales from their local villages. Students engage in the research process as they interview older members of their local cultures and listen to folktales. Students will compile these in the form of a booklet/podcast/movie.
35.April: Adjectives- Teachers will prepare a video showing how to use the adjective in the sentence.
36.April: Preparing the adjectives e-booklet. Students will make a research about adjectives describing appearance and personality. Later they will prepare a digital booklet about adjectives using cartoon.
37.April: Project Meeting-9- Student exchange in Turkey. Students will learn more about acting. They will realize a role play activity related with the adjectives describing appearance and personality.
38.April: Newsletter about Turkey. Students share their experiences with their classmates.
39.May: Preparing an e postcard. Each student will prepare an e-postcard to express feeling and experiences about the project and send it to their international group friends.
40.June: Project Meeting-10-Transnational Meeting of Teachers in Spain. General evaluation of the project and outputs. Each participant school will prepare a report including evaluation of the project (as pdf), which will show the learning outputs of students related with each semester separately.
Our Aims
The rationale for this project is to use ICT based Flipped Learning which is an innovative and student-centred pedagogical approach to increase the quality of teaching and learning in our schools via; (1) improving the quality of service of better learning outcomes, (2) flourishing the student’s self-paced learning, (3) fostering students’ own learning independently from time and place. “Student Perceptions of the Flipped Classroom” is a research whose main purpose was to provide teachers who are considering flipping their classes with feedback from a student’s perspective. This study focused on student perceptions of the Flipped Classroom experience in mathematics setting. The research concludes that the majority of students enjoyed the Flipped Classroom and believed it supported their learning deeply. This research revealed that students made significant progress in the three development areas mentioned above. In this project, we want to apply Flipped Learning using ICT tools to improve the effectiveness of Flipped Learning to support our students’ learning more effectively. Beside this by the mediation of combining Flipped Learning with ICT we want to manage; (4) improving student and teacher digital literacy and (5) creating a uniform digital learning environment within schools. Our project will seek to address the above five identified development areas by implementing Flipped Learning on ICT platforms; in this way we hope to increase motivation of both our students and teachers, enhance academic success, improve social skills of our students, make our students love their school and lessons so reducing early school leaving and take development of our schools’ teaching and learning a step further.
