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workshop: The route to Ephesus. Eugenia Kovatcheva Eliza Stefanova Nikolina Nikolova. What do you associate with Ephesus?. Beer The city of Seven Sleepers
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workshop:The route to Ephesus Eugenia Kovatcheva Eliza Stefanova Nikolina Nikolova
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
Artemis Artemis of the wildland, Mistress of Animals
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
Let’s introduce yourself • Name • I’m a god/ goddess in … • I would like to master myself in …
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
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
What we can transfer to Groundtvig courses • Challengemotivation, 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!
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
The teacher education can also enhance the creativity and innovations
Developing ICT-enhanced skills Active learning Continuous, gradually accumulated experiences Meeting concrete objectives by performing specific tasks in various contexts I*Teach Methodology
Formulating the challenge Tuningthe projectsaccording 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 …
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
Computer variations of Sonia Delaunay’s models: Pre-service teachers results
Tsar Bell and its computer model with Elica applications • prepared by in-service teacher Tania Monova
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
Being wrong is not the same as being creative, but if you are afraid of being wrong, you cannot be creative! Sir Ken Robinson