The project revolves around the key-word “voices”: the idea is to give a voice to teenagers, who will share their experiences with other European teenagers while improving their English and reinforcing their ICT skills. The students explore different areas of teen lives in Europe and interact about teenage related topics: their lifestyles, their backgrounds and environments, their concerns. More precisely, they investigate the hardships and beauties of teenage life, the “ups and downs” of being a teen, in a lighthearted way.
Subjects:
Citizenship,
Drama, Foreign Languages
Languages:
EN
Pupil's age:
16 - 17
Tools to be used:
e-mail,
Forum, MP3, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings),
Twinspace, Web publishing.
Aims:
The aim of
this project is to make the English class more interactive and stimulating
through a student-oriented project. It is designed as a set of “challenges”
that the partners will take up all along the school-year, and which will give
them the opportunity to exchange and collaborate with other European teenagers,
while practicing their language skills, listening and speaking particularly,
through the use of audio and video files. The project is meant to be
student-oriented; it focuses particularly on the students’ lives, opinions,
feelings, creativity, etc., which are always used as the starting-points for
each activity. Also, students will have to react to and work on material
produced by their partners (audio, photos, etc.). They are encouraged to be creative,
express their feelings and opinions, reflect on who they are. They will use
English for genuine communication needs, to complete concrete tasks, and
therefore improve their skills in ESL. They will learn to use various ICT
collaborative tools and web 2.0 apps to communicate efficiently and work
collaboratively with partners abroad, and improve their teamwork skills; the
project will also promote individual responsibility by means of collaborative
learning, develop inter-cultural skills and tolerance, broaden the cultural
horizons of the students, and foster self-expression and creativity.
Work process:
The partners
set up a schedule with some deadlines for each “challenge” – the students
exchange the material they produce on Twinspace, and react to it. They have to
use ICT tools, particularly audio and video tools, and collaborative apps.
Students will work in national and international teams to produce material and
discuss the topics. The project is conceived to be developed throughout the
whole school year with regular virtual meetings and once a week team work.
Expected results: