ERASMUS + DesignSTEM

PARTNER SCHOOL

Transnational Workshop in HELSINKI 18-22 february 2017

We both

1) WORKED IN GROUPS WITH OUR PARTNERS

and 2) VISITED IMPORTANT

EDUCATIONAL CENTRES.

GROUP WORK 1:

With ‘world cafè method’ we chose some contents to work at during the following 3

years.

Among them:

Materials, Biomimicry (what we can learn from nature: sustainable solutions

to human challenges by emulating nature's patterns and strategies),

Pattern, Trigonometry, Photography, Recycling, Light…

The method itself, named ‘WORLD CAFÉ METHOD’ is a new methodology used when working

in groups .

We had to choose 30 contents which we all considered

important, but

-we did not know each other

-our backgrounds were different

We first divided into small groups. Every small group had a moderator. Everyone in the group suggested some important contents for his/her subject and wrote them on a post it.

Then everyone except the moderator changed table. The contents written by different groups were read and explained by each moderator.Everyone comparedthe new contentswith the ones discussed in his/herfirst group.

Then the moderators organized the selected contents and dividedthem intomacro-areas.

At the end everyone had to vote the content he/she thought was more important.Different colourswere used fordifferent kinds of vote: from the pointof view of a teacher,a student, or amember of themodern societyin general.

With the same method we worked on other questions.

Among them:

Which challenges and which possibilities do we see in

integrating design and STEM?

The exercises we have to think about should be motivating for our students, modular in order to be proposed at different times to different audiences, and should be related to our curricula.They should also be usable in varied learning contexts by learners from different backgrounds.

They should be written in English AND in the mother tongue.

They should be accessible to disabled learners.

Their design should be engaging (less text, more images, clear typography).