":)Europe@nKids" calls the world: Hello Australia!
Hello India!
The EuropeanKids project (EK) has started in 1999 in our Italian school;
the following year a new version of the project has involved schools, teachers,
pupils of different European Countries which contributed to the achievement of a
website that shows kids’ works in mother tongue and in English, about simple
subjects (my town, my school, a feast…).
In the 2001-2002 school year the
teamwork activities on line among European schools went on with the inclusion of
new partners coming from European Countries not involved up to; they have been
invited to produce didactic works and to insert them on the web site in order to
complete the description of European reality.
There was also a “Quality Jump”
in the on line interaction among schools. We set up an Internet room in which
the partners and the users of the project can meet people.
In the 2002-2003
school year the teamwork activities on line among European schools will go on on
with the inclusion of new partners coming from European Countries not involved
up to now.
There will be a "Jump in the World" inviting Australian
partners to visit EuropeanKids Web Site e to produce "AussiKids" web
pages, with didactic works presenting australian "way of life" and
expressing local cultural, traditional and folkloristic aspects. Also Indian Kids will join In: the Internet Institute for Human Development
(IIHD), a non-profit development organization based in West Bengal State of India and its associated 17 NGOs
(covering 87 School), asked us to implement our concept in India for socio-economic upliftment of rural
people (see more).
We'll organise
virtual meetings among teachers, students, schools adaptable to general demand
(web forums) or to limited group (chat, Shared Board…) Individual meetings
among students, teachers, parents and other participants in the school community
will be available.
The collaboration will not be a simple "working together
at distance for a common project" but a really moment of mutual exchange,
of virtual friendship.
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We aim to use in a productive way the Didactical Technology and the Multimedia,
to spread knowledge and culture, to create and exchange educational materials
via Web, to interact almong schools, children, teachers in a web space.
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Children and teachers have the opportunity to use the Internet in learning and
teaching situations.
Pupils have the chance to express local cultural,
traditional and folkloristic aspects even through the use of digital technique;
they arrive to a major comprehension of the cultural differences, to a richer
knowledge of different cultural tradition, told by children of other countries.
It has been undertaken a really "interaction between schools", have
started "friendships" on the Net with pupils of school coming from
other countries.
The participation-like sponsoring of private firms (Microsoft, Abanet,
Atlante-Garamond, Computers Systems, Kataweb, RoloBanca 1473, Scavolini)
and other public corporation (Provincial Administration of Pesaro and Urbino,
Pesaro Municipality), has created a first bridge between school and "extra
school".
Expert teachers in multimedia didactics are fully used inside the project, and contribute to the training of
colleagues. EuropeanKids & IIHD, India is creating global children
bridges through digital devide. Infact the Internet Institute for Human
Development (IIHD), a non profit development organization based in West Bengal
State of India, asked us to implement our concept in India
in its associated 17 NGOs
(covering 87 School), for socio-economic upliftment of rural
people .
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The users of the project have been divided into three main groups
- Pupils (age
9-13)
- Teachers (training of teachers in the use of TD)
- Parents and local
administrators
Pupils and teachers are going to start a good use of multimedia
at school, to the use of the Internet to spread and exchange knowledge and
culture, to creation and exchange of didactical materials, creation of new
electronic nets and their active use. Parents and local communities are directly
involved and know the educational potentiality of the net through the children's
experience.
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Our school has been managing the project EuropeanKids about "The
cultural identity and variety in Europe" since 1999. Last two years we
involved schools, teachers, pupils of different European Countries which,
managed by this Institute, contribuited to the achievement of a website that
shows the works in mother tongue and in English, about some simple subjects.
The
project invites the colleagues of other schools all over the world to share the
communication experience and cultural exchange among schools, in an optic of
active paternity.
Users who interact with the pages produced (pupils, teachers,
parents of European and extra European countries) do it in activities of
learning-teaching.
At the moment, we aim to extend our experience in Europe and
to replicate it in Australia, inviting schools on the other side of the planet,
and in India- cooperating with the Internet Institute for Human Development (IIHD)
and its associated 17 NGOs (covering 87 School) - sharing our idea:
"EuropeanKids" calls the world: Hello Australia! Hello India!
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We hope the project will contribute to improve education: children and teachers
will have the opportunity to use the Internet in learning and teaching
situations.
Pupils will have the chance to express local cultural, traditional
and folkloristic aspects even through the use of digital technique; they will
arrive to a major comprehension of the cultural differences, to a richer
knowledge of different cultural tradition, told by children of other countries.
It will be undertaken a really "interaction between schools", will
start "friendships" on the Net with pupils of school coming from other
countries.
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