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Evolving eTwinning
Anne Gilleran
PDW Ischia, 17 October 2008
A History lesson!
2005 - Officially launched in January
2007 - Officially Integrated into the Life
Long Learning Programme
2013 - Due to run until this dateNow an accompanying measure to the Comenius programme
What is ?
?
Official Definition
eTwinning is a portal :
• Which takes advantage of the possibilities offered by the Internet and digital media
• to promote European school cooperation, collaborative learning and project based pedagogy.
• eTwinning does not finance single projects but supports them by offering tools and support.
Re-examine this sentence
To promote:
European school cooperation
Collaborative learning
Project based pedagogy.
Assumption
That teachers can only do these through project work
What has happened since 2005?
1. The Internet has changed
Web 1.x– Passive– Read the news– Retrieve information
Essentially an online encyclopedia
Interactive & Creative Web 2.0
- make the news- publish ideas- create archives- comment on events- communicate
At the Technet Summit in November 2006, Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix, stated a simple formula for defining the phases of the Web:– “ Web 1.0 was dial-up, 50K average
bandwidth, Web 2.0 is an average 1 megabit of bandwidth and Web 3.0 will be 10 megabits of bandwidth all the time, which will be the full video Web, and that will feel like Web 3.0.
Since 2005
February 2004
January 2005
February 2005
October 2006February 2004.
20061999
2005/06
April 2006
What has happened in eTwinning since 2005?
16 October 2008: 45643 active members
Active project run at approximately 10% of this figure
September 2005 7000 teachers registered
Networked World
eTwinning is not just about projects.
Projects are the outcome of a much larger process
The process of community Social Networking
Image of the network of connected eTwinning schools
What is the future?
Teachers connected in groups 2008/2009To collaborate and create together within and outside formal projects
–European eTwinning ambassadors–Maths & Science teachers–School Leaders–Creativity
2009
Online learning– eTwinning learning events– Professional development on line– communities of practice based on pedagogical
resources
eTwinning continues
To be supportive and offer opportunity for professional development
To be connective & non bureaucratic
To offer recognition
To have built in quality assurance at national and European level in the form of Quality Labels
And
It still costs nothing!
Digital Natives?
In this fast evolving world there are no natives!