EFL, ICT & ARTS:
A TRYAD FOR GLOBAL COLLABORATION
By Lic. Silvana Carnicero – August 2014
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
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