Learning with eTwinning - European Commission - Europa

23456stayed the same but the environment changed. “Break down the walls in yourclass room and open your mind for worldwide exploration, communication andfriendship!” A school without borders is the new pedagogical playground forteachers. Colleagues: don’t be afraid of the new ‘toys’. Lieven Van ParysA large innovative aspect of this project is teaching pupils about multimediaart. They mould their creativity into solutions for each task and they learn newways of expressing themselves. It helps increase sensitivity, understanding,thinking, visualisation and fantasy. It develops pupils’ skills and helps themlearn about work and cooperation with other European schools.Alexandra PilkováYes, “eTwinning is winning!” Our project became a real learning environmentwhere children can develop skills in communication and teamwork. Withsimple chenille wires and a child-friendly drawing programme, they developedtheir creativity and imagination. The pupils were astonished by their ownworks of art and their self-esteem grew. The whole project meets therequirements of appropriate areas of the school curriculum in all the involvedcountries. It helps to bridge the digital divide by providing an “ICT-rich”learning and teaching context.Lieven Van ParysMy pupils learned to handle specific multimedia which implied pictures, soundand interactivity. They also learned how to deal with art language in digitalsurrounding.Alexandra PilkováTeamwork with children from all over the world communicating with eachother by means of an uncomplicated universal language: chenille wires anddrawings. It’s maybe the proof that even very young children can make use ofthe Internet in a meaningful way. In this virtual world, pupils hand over theirpersonally made outcomes (animals) to each other. "Inside each child there isa hidden artist."Lieven Van ParysYes! We are ONE world and ONE community. ICT is the key and instrument toimprove intercultural communication. We have already enjoyed this uniqueexperience in more than twenty countries.Lieven Van ParysDo it! These are my three simple rules: keep it simple, use a universal languageand look for a universal subject that can be integrated in each curriculum.Lieven Van Parys35