EFL, ICT & Arts: A tryad for global collaboration

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This presentation was shown at Share 2014, a congress for English teachers in Buenos Aires. It shows how to take part in the project Adobe Youth Voices as a way of raising students' awareness of social issues which are relevant to all youth around the world.

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EFL, ICT & ARTS:

A TRYAD FOR GLOBAL COLLABORATION

By Lic. Silvana Carnicero – August 2014

http://collaborate.iearn.org

Project Description Objectives

• Make students reflect on social problems they are interested in

• Allow students to do their own research on the topics chosen

• Make students create messages to raise awareness of the social problems they have chosen

•Allow students to become content producers for other youth in different parts of the world

ENGLISH

ICT

ARTS

What topics are our teenagers interested in?

FOOD FOR THOUGHT…

Social problems chosenby students

Bullying at school Addictions

Dangers in the streets

Environmental damage Animals’

rights

Teenage pregnancy

Visual inputBrainstorming

Slogan

StoryboardProduction

Research

SharingPeer feedback

The project in steps

A video on bullying…

Methodology

Constructivism

Connectivism

Problem-solving

Collective intelligence

ICT Use

Search engines: to look for information relevant to the topics

Online translators: to look up words they did not know in English

Interactive graphic organizers: to organize the information found

Power Point presentations: to present to their classmates the causes and consequences of the problems chosen and the possible solutions

Blog: to publish the final product and share them in the web accompanied by explanations of the production process

Youtube: to make their productions public for an international audience

Moviemaker and Adobe Premiere: to create and edit the videos produced on the topics of their choice

Facebook: to have an online collaborative working space to negotiate content and organization for the video productions

Technology allowed students to build knowledge based on their

own reality

ACTIVITIES

Learning beyond the

classroom walls

• Virtual classroom in:

•Closed group in:

Local and virtualcollaboration

As a result of face to face and

online collaboration,

students created summaries and

graphic organizers that

were the starting point for

their final products

Evidencias del Aprendizaje

Students shared their productions globally in the collaborative

site that gave birth to them:

Adobe Youth Voices Online Community

Say no to addictions

Let´s care for our world Born for freedom

Street Dangers

Productions

Beyond our classroom,Beyond our school!!!

An anecdote of success

Collaborative final product

Two students at our school were nvited to take part in Adobe Youth Summit for the work done in Adobe Youth Voices Project.There, they exchanged creative ideas with their global peers who werealso part of the project and made a joint production with students fromIndia and USA.

EFL ARTSICT

Meaningful foreign language learning

THANK YOU!!!Lic. Silvana Carnicero

silvanacar01@yahoo.com.ar

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