Do you have an ongoing project? Tell everyone!

Do you have an ongoing project? Tell everyone!

Recommendations

One of the factors that distinguishes a quality project is, besides showing the final product, that the whole process is well documented leaving record or evidence of all the phases of the project implementation. As part of the documentation process, there should be record of the involvement of the different players, and especially of the students. (Rubric for a quality project: 6. Results, impact and documentation) Continuar leyendo

Quality in Pre-primary and Primary Education projects

Quality in Pre-primary and Primary Education projects

Recommendations

Here are some examples of good practices for Pre-primary and Primary education for each of the six existing evaluation criteria used for awarding National Quality Labels to eTwinning projects.

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Computational thinking in education and in eTwinning projects

Computational thinking in education and in eTwinning projects

Recommendations

It is necessary to train students to develop competences that will help them adapt better to the requirements and challenges of today’s information and communication society. In order to succeed in that, teachers need to, on one hand, change the way students interact with technology and help them become creators instead of mere technology consumers. And on the other hand, teachers need to show students how to use computational thinking and the skills related to it for planning and solving all kinds of complex tasks in their everyday lives. Can school foster the development of computational thinking from an early age and at all education stages? Is it possible to develop this new way of thinking from the perspective of any area of the curriculum and using a wide range of educational resources, not only programming?

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