Supporting projects and

piloting methodologies of ICT

use in STEM Education in

ERTE JOÃO CARLOS SOUSA EQUIPA DE RECURSOS E TECNOLOGIAS EDUCATIVAS DIREÇÃO-GERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO

MINISTÉRIO DA EDUCAÇÃO E CIÊNCIA - PORTUGAL

Agenda

Who we are

What we do

Activities

SeguraNet

eTwinning – THE place!!!

STEM activities

Who we are

Direção-Geral de Educação do Ministério de Educação

e Ciência

(Directorate-General for Education of the Ministry of

Education and Science)

ERTE - Equipa de Recursos e Tecnologias Educativas

(Mustidisciplinar team of resources and Educational

Technologies)

What we do

DGE makes sure that national policies are implemented regarding the pedagogical and

didactic components of pre-school, primary, lower and upper secondary education, as well as the provision of education for children not attending school (curricula, exams, all types of ‘normal’ and ‘special’ didactics support)

ERTE multidisciplinary team in charge of designing, developing and evaluating initiatives

and projects related to the use of digital tools and resources in education, involving all educational agents (students and teachers alike) (ICT curriculum integration)

(some of the)

ACTIVITIES

Internet safety for all (teachers, students, parents…)

SEGURANET

Digital security topics are part of the current

Curriculum Targets, which are taught in an ICT

subject, years 7 and 8 [ages 12-14].

Curriculum Integration

Quiz4You SeguraNet

(Pack of playing cards)

In order to receive this resource teachers complete an online

form.

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Contents and strategy decided with a

youth panel of 40 young participants,

reflecting the full socio-economic

diversity in Portugal that meets three

times a year.

A Moodle platform is used to keep the

panelists permanentelly involved.

Comic Strips

44 comic strips about various digital security topics.

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Posters – What would you do?

18 posters on various

digital security topics.

Widely used by schools

in the SID.

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SeguraNet Games

Most visited resources

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Quantos Queres

Origami for students (ages 6-9)

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The Web We Want

(translated to Portuguese)

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Jasmim e Borboleta Play Online

Students (ages 5-9)

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Challenges Years 5-8

School registration

Challenges Years 1-4

Team registration

7 – Student Challenges

3 – Parent Challenges

3 - Student Challenges

(170) Schools

20, 000 participants

100 teams

5, 000 students

SeguraNet Challenges

Participation of the Autonomous Regions of Madeira

and the Azores

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Network

www.seguranet.pt

https://www.facebook.com/seguranet

https://twitter.com/SeguraNet

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Other activites • National Defence Day:

about 130,000 18 - year olds participate in a workshop on digital

security promoted by Seguranet thoughout the year.

• SeguraNet Challenges:

about 25,000 participants enrolled last school year.

• Providing information and resources (online and offline)

in multiple formats for each of the targets.

• eSafety Label

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Staff training

• Awareness raising workshops

taking place in schools with the support of the ICT Competence

Centres; During SID Week more than 200 awareness raising workshops

were delivered.

• Training of teachers and other entities external to DGE

(Programa Escolhas, Institute of Child Support, Ministry of Defence).

• MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on digital security.

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ERTE – SeguraNet Team

ICT Competence

Centres

Schools/ICT Teams

ICT Competence Centres: (network of nine institutions located all

over Portugal)

Organizational aspects

Best practice is widely disseminated, hoping for a “contagion effect”;

During SID Week schools were invited to organize initiatives and

activities revolving around Internet Safety. About 50 municipalities

were involved.

Involvement in the "No to Hate Speech Online"Campaign ;

SeguraNet for disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds:

partnerships with the Institute of Child Support, the Police and

Programa Escolhas.

Defining campaign content (3)

eTwinning is…

An initiative of the European Commission to give an

opportunity to as many EU children as possible to

communicate with other children in other EU countries using Information and Communication Technologies at school.

Total numbers –7th September 2014

eTwinning is…

the fastest growing community for teachers in Europe;

contains both communication & collaboration activities;

offers formal & informal professional development opportunities.

2008 – 2013 2014 - 2020

Lifelong Learning

eLearning ERASMUS Plus

2005 – 2008

Who participates?

Teachers from any subject and level.

Schools from the European Union, Norway, Iceland,

Turkey, FYROM

(Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Tunisia and

Ukraine – eTwinning Plus)

Public, Private, Professional Schools. (Pre-school to

secondary)

eTwinning in Portugal

Erte – Team of Resources

and Technologies

eTwinning Ambassadors

Teachers

Photos: Maria Luz Borges, JI São Bruno - Valejas

www.etwinning.net

The Portal layers

… Public area

… Personal area (desktop)

…Virtual work area (Twinspace) a platform for schools to work together on their project.

Each project has its own private TwinSpace available

from the Desktop for partners and from the Portal

homepage for invited members.

Recognition

Quality labels

National

European

European Award

Photos: Maria Luz Borges, JI São Bruno - Valejas

Awarded astronomy projects (II)

How is your Sky (2 year Astronomy project to observe and compare skys at different locations with same latitude or longitude)

Finalist age category 12-15 (2011)

Schools:

OŠ Preska -Primary school Preska

COLLÈGE TIRAQUEAU

OŠ Gornja Radgona

Lycée Professionnel Ramiro Arrue

http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p16585/welcome

Public Area

Workflow – search for projects (I)

Public Area

Workflow – search for projects (II)

Astronomy project example

Information publication

Data collection

Examples of activities in the project

Videoconferences with Scientists

Awarded astronomy projects (I)

Artstronomy (art and astronomy)

Prémio Nacional 1o ciclo (2010) Artstronomy

Teacher: Rui Lima

School: Colégio Monte Flor

https://sites.google.com/site/artstronomy/

Inquiry based

learning

Project based

learning

Intercultural

dialogue

Collaborative work

Use of ICT in

classroom

Safe environmen

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Innovation Recognition

Teacher is autonomou

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Teacher is never alone

Pedagogical approach

STEM activities (I)

STEM activities (II)

What to expect? A recognized central team

(ERTE)

A nationwide proximity support team (5 + 5 persons)

Access to na European dimension (through the EUN partners and eTwinning)

A community (built upon the ITEC project comunity)

Tools for the building-up and the development of collaborative projects (eTwinning et al.)

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LABs

Contacts

João Carlos Sousa – joao.sousa@dge.mec.pt DGE - Equipa ERTE

Av. 24 de Julho, nº140, 5º

1399-025 Lisboa

Telf.: 213 936832

Fax: 213 938 869

eTwining: etwinning@dge.mec.pt http://etwinning.dge.mec.pt/

http://moodle.crie.min-edu.pt

http://www.facebook.com/eTwinning.NSS.PT Twitter: @eTwinning_PT