A project among eTwinning friends that share many commons in their official curriculums and they believe that coding, programming and ICT when collaborative is more challenging and at the same time more rewarding. We aim to motivate international teams of students to identify areas of their interest and relative to their daily life among the  UN Global Goals and using ICT tools of their option (coding, micro-controllers, 3D printing and AI) with creativity and critical thinking to propose solutions and promote actions for a more sustainable world. In this project the Greek school will also make use of equipment, a 3D priinter and Arduino starter kit, that had been offered by the Greek NSO in the frame of #STEM3 initiative.

Our students will work in national and/or international teams and individually according to the task, they will get familiar with the SDGs, they will find ways to contribute to sustainable solutions, they will publish their productions and they will adopt a critical approach on the technology, on the web applications and e-safety and on the power of ICT to foster collaborations for a better world.

 In a nutshell... our students will be engaged in coding and digital literacy as a medium of computational thinking, communication, problem-solving, creativity, on real-life issues so that they will be enhanced in their route to responsible, active citizenship in their local and globalized community.

 

The partner classes will propose and implement activities so that the aims of the project to be supported  under the condition that these activities are collaborative and can be adapted to all the partners’ curricula 

Productions
All the final products will be shared on public pages in TwinSpace

 

 

I) Each teacher at his/her class  will start with basic concepts in computer science (definitions of: problem, data, solution, restrictions of a problem, algorithm, program, code, programming language, compiler, interpreter, program errors in syntax and logic)

 For this activity teachers create their own material and find resources that it is optional to be uploaded on the twinspace dedicated page in English. Mandatory for the teachers is to upload their pupils’ productions that will prove their skill to use effectively and explain these basic concepts. Such creations can be creations can be posters, infographics, mindmaps on their native language

 

II) Introduction of the microbit

First micro:bit project: Each pupil presents one of the partner pupils from another class, based on his/her text-description. This micro:bit project will be added as a node in an class photo that the partner class will share in a google slide

 

III) Introduction to SDGs through videos and materials provided by admins of the project

 

IV) Pupils discussions in the 17 forum-threads about the SDG goal they prefer to work on and explaining what is their chosen Goal relevance to their local context

 

V) Creation of the international teams based on (IV)

 

VI) A mosaic.ly (?) of posters (tool to be defined) per team to highlight the importance of their team’s selected Goal

 

V) Introduction to scratch (at least 3 meetings per class-teacher’s schedule)

 

VI) Introduction to AI and machine learning (mindmaps as students productions)

 

VI) Examples of AI (at least 3 sessions for this)

 

VII) Final activity-Students challenges

For each selected Goal 4 challenges (in micro:bit, ICT poster/video article, scratch project, AI application) are set by teachers to the students 

There will be one responsible teacher per international team and the students in the team support one another through the forum  so that all in the team to manage a contribution to respond to their challenge in their team’s Goal

All the productions of the teams are uploaded in a wakelet and in twinspace

 

Final activity 

Farewell (eg Live event with quizzes and games)

Evaluation of the project by teachers and students

Students certificates

Presentation of the project to the schools’ web site

Applying for QL