27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey 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?

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey Beer The city of Seven Sleepers One of the seven churches of A sia (cited in the Book of Revelation) the church that had forsaken its first love Temple of Artemis (550 BC) One of 7 wonders of the Ancient World

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey Artemis Artemis of the wildland, Mistress of Animals

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey 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

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey Let’s introduce yourself Name I’m a god/ goddess in … I would like to master myself in …

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey What do you associate with The route to Ephesus

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey 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

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey Results

What we discovered together?

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey 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

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey 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

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey The teacher education can also enhance the creativity and innovations

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey I*Teach Methodology Developing ICT-enhanced skills Active learning Continuous, gradually accumulated experiences Meeting concrete objectives by performing specific tasks in various contexts

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey … 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

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey I*Teach implementation Set of ICT textbooks & teacher’s handbooks Enhancing ideas in educators fields of interest Structure - common thread linking Lesson starts with challenge - a creative problem motivating the introduction of new knowledge and skills Final textbook of series a challenge itself - a red thread of Coding through the whole content Each lesson - deals with ideas and tools for solving problems milestones towards a final goal

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey Examples

Computer variations of Sonia Delaunay’s models: Pre-service teachers results

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey Tsar Bell and its computer model with Elica applications prepared by in-service teacher Tania Monova

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey

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

27-31 October 2010, International Conference QUALITY and ICT for GRUNDTVIG courses, Izmir, Turkey Being wrong is not the same as being creative, but if you are afraid of being wrong, you cannot be creative! Sir Ken Robinson