workshop:
The route to Ephesus
Eugenia Kovatcheva
Eliza Stefanova
Nikolina Nikolova
27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey
What do you associate with Ephesus?
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 Beer
 The city of Seven Sleepers
 One of the seven churches of A
(cited in the Book of Revelation)
the church that had forsaken its first love
sia
 Temple of Artemis (550 BC)
One of 7 wonders of the Ancient World
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Artemis
Artemis of the wildland,
Mistress of Animals
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Goddess
[415] and his mighty neck and shaggy breast, and put
upon him [Hephaestus] a tunic, and grasped a stout
staff, and went forth halting; but there moved swiftly
to support their lord handmaidens wrought of gold in
the semblance of living maids. In them is
understanding in their hearts, and in them speech
[420] and strength, and they know cunning handiwork
by gift of the immortal gods. These busily moved to
support their lord
18 song - Shield of Achilles, Iliad, Homer
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Let’s introduce yourself
 Name
 I’m a god/ goddess in …
 I would like to master myself in …
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What do you associate with
The route to Ephesus
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Group work
 Tentative plan
 Resources – (where they could be found)
 Activities (including ICT)
 Tools and ways of communication
 Analyze: what kind of additional skills could be
develop
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Results
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What we discovered together?
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ICT-enhanced skills developed
 team work - planning, task distribution,
communication skills, conflict resolving
 information skills - looking for and selecting relevant
information, critical thinking
 presentation skills – selecting appropriate tools,
written & oral presentation
of milestones and the final product
 project work
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What we can transfer to
Groundtvig courses
 Challenge
motivation, inspired by the learner’s interests
 Reaching a visible output which could be shared
 The audience should participate actively
 The teacher is a partner
 The ICT should be rather enhancing the process
than being an end in themselves!
27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey
Constrains
 Teachers are not very motivated in using ICT
 not familiar enough with ICT
 difficult to catch up with rapid development
 Effective integration requires
 learners to be in the centre
 learn by doing/making
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The teacher education
can also enhance
the creativity and innovations
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I*Teach Methodology
 Developing
ICT-enhanced skills
 Active learning
 Continuous, gradually
accumulated experiences
 Meeting concrete objectives
by performing specific tasks
in various contexts
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…
 Formulating the challenge
 Tuning the projects
according to the learner’s
interests
 Putting the learner in a
demanding and stimulating
situation
 Making the teachers/learners
feel as co-authors of the
methodology
 Enabling the learners to express
themselves in a new way
27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey
Specific of I*Teach methodology
 ICT-enhanced skills
synergy between technical and soft skills
 Active learning methods
 learner - in the centre
 teacher- guide & partner
 Project work based on didactic scenarios
encouraging the creative thinking
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Examples
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Computer variations of Sonia Delaunay’s
models: Pre-service teachers results
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Tsar Bell and its computer model
with Elica applications
 prepared by in-service teacher Tania Monova
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Fostering creativity & innovations
 Teachers - encouraged:
 to develop variations of the project
 to take into account their expertise & learners’ interests
 Educators - provided a freedom of choice of:
 path towards a specific milestone
 tools representing their ideas
 manner of presentation of the results
 Project work and output
 generation of creative ideas
 implementation in a sharable product
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Being wrong is not the same
as being creative,
but if you are afraid of being wrong,
you cannot be creative!
Sir Ken Robinson
27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey