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| Free play | |||
| 0 - 7 7 - 10 10 - 12 12 - 14 | The primary quality of free play is that it provides space for children’s play to grow and evolve, supported and bounded by its surrounding. Free play is also influenced by the inner reality of each participating child, so it can often serve as an outlet for the cultural and societal influences. It also requires inner motivation, will to participate and take action, all of the qualities recognised as preconditions for responsible and constructive use of digital media tools. | ||
| Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Humanities, Social Sciences, Art, Sports | |||
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| »Dream seekers« - group of reading and creative writing for primary education | |||
| 7 - 10 | A group of reading and creative writing has the purpose to encourage children to be autonomous in discovering and enriching their own ways of growing and forming personality through literature. The activity involves literature reading and composition of own materials, the purpose being to promote the act of reading among primary school pupils. The relevance for media education is both due to its traditional and modern direction of maintaining interest and preserving cultural values of reading and writing skills. | ||
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| Customs and traditions | |||
| 7 - 10 | Maintaining an interest in discovering the traditional background of a country by cultural/ educational activities is a challenge. The values’ system acquired in childhood is a fundamental stone for primary education. Maintaining a safe and balanced environment in which cultural/artistic activities have their own place, has cognitive, socio-emotional and cultural benefits: preserving authentic values (e.g. handwriting, reading, reciting, literary, artistic work), but also adapting to new socio-cultural contexts (e.g. media literacy). | ||
| Humanities | |||
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| Storytelling - group for primary education | |||
| 7 - 10 | During reading workshops, unique topics are addressed, selected together with the children and adapted to the needs and preferences observed by them. For each activity, we first considered capturing the children's attention and highlighting the novelty elements. In this way their curiosity and interest were permanently maintained, generating enthusiasm and involvement. Emphasis was placed on active-participatory teaching strategies and on collaboration and cooperation within work teams. | ||
| Humanities | |||
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| Learning letters by storytelling | |||
| 7 - 10 | The story that teachers come up with when teaching letters refers to the quality of the letter in the essence and how the letter is revealed from the story. It goes from the concrete story to the abstract letter concept - from the story, through the picture to the letter. Storytelling used in this way provides a powerful bridge between the reality and the abstract nature of a letter. The skill to make bridges between abstract thoughts and reality is one of the key prerequisites for grasping the complex and to a point abstract concepts surrounding digital technology. | ||
| Humanities, Art | |||
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| Designing a wiki on health, sports and nutrition | |||
| 7 - 10 | The project of working in digital wikis without facing the net’s risks will mean a change in the way of interpreting teacher training as well as encourage a real participation of the educational community in a digital environment in a critical way. Students will reflect on the need of maintaining a healthy way of life while developing other skills as digital literacy or English skills. | ||
| Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Humanities, Sports | |||
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| Form drawing | |||
| 7 - 10 10 - 12 | The aim of this practice is to make a clear connection between 1) observation, 2) own movement and 3) the final product, the drawing. Visual observation/perception gives input to the body that then creates a controlled movement of the whole hand, from the shoulders to the fingers, and ends in creation of the student's own abstract form drawing. | ||
| Art | |||
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| School field trips | |||
| 7 - 10 10 - 12 12 - 14 | First-hand experiences are the best way for a child to build its character, and to sense dynamics of the real world accompanied by a group of its peers. Since the classroom cannot encompass all that needs to be learned and experienced, school field trips are the best method to provide such experiences and learning opportunities. | ||
| Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Social Sciences | |||
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| Learning by observation | |||
| 7 - 10 10 - 12 12 - 14 | The child is directed to the development of primary senses in order to learn about the world around them. Information is all around so observing and getting back to lay on the senses and perception by individual pursuit. It is the basics of learning. | ||
| Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Humanities, Social Sciences, Art, Sports | |||
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| Handwork | |||
| 7 - 10 10 - 12 12 - 14 | The development of fine motor skills is vital for enhancing cognitive abilities such as focus and concentration. Additionally, with the proliferation of digital technology, leveraging multi-sensory experiences is key to fostering creative and critical thinking, leading to a sense of accomplishment and success in children. | ||
| Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Art | |||
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| Gardening | |||
| 7 - 10 10 - 12 12 - 14 | Gardening provides space for observing nature and its laws, for developing work ethics and a sense of accomplishment, self-worth and independence. It further builds a healthy relationship with the world around us. All those lessons are important in preparation for a healthy use of digital media and online spaces. | ||
| Natural Sciences & Mathematics | |||
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| Playing the Flute | |||
| 7 - 10 10 - 12 12 - 14 | The art of music enhances the ability to form connections, find harmony, make wise decisions and foster an optimistic outlook on the world. By actively participating in making music by playing an instrument, children develop a habit of persistence and realize that creating music requires effort and active participation, as opposed to passive consumption. | ||
| Art | |||
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| Theatre play | |||
| 7 - 10 10 - 12 12 - 14 | Acting and performing are an integral part of growing up in the Waldorf community. The special feature is that all children participate, just as all children participate in mathematics. Topics are related to pedagogical work and are focused on learning the material and monitoring the stages of development. | ||
| Humanities, Art | |||
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| Library Visit and Work | |||
| 7 - 10 10 - 12 12 - 14 14 - 16 16+ | Library visit and work is intended to guide the child into the broader context of the culture of reading. Together with writing, the latter represents the core of human literacy. Typically, library visits come first and may, if cultivated, be consequently upgraded into guided or even independent work. | ||
| Humanities, Natural Sciences and mathematics, Social Sciences | |||
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| Making of own Simple Instruments with Intention of Making Music | |||
| 7 - 10 10 - 12 12 - 14 14 - 16 16+ | Experience of real sounds is becoming second to that of artificial sound, voice and noise. However, in order to properly evaluate and interpret artificial audio stimuli, the child needs to experience that the sound is first and foremost a natural phenomenon. | ||
| Art, Humanities, Natural Sciences and mathematics, Social Sciences | |||
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| History | |||
| 10 - 12 12 - 14 | The meaning behind teaching history is for pupils to realize the state of awareness of a certain time in the human past. The dichotomy of the teacher telling about history and the pupils listening, leads to opening those questions and exchanging on them. The immersion into a certain time in the human past is enhanced by painting, drawing, writing and observing. And all with the aim of better understanding the present time. | ||
| Humanities | |||
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| Woodwork | |||
| 10 - 12 12 - 14 | In the digital age, the intention behind woodwork lessons is to exercise the will, or the voluntary moment, for the betterment of pupils’ motoric skills and artistic creativity, which lead to the development of overall creativity and resilience. | ||
| Art | |||
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| Innovation and technology in the service of education: ‘Microcosmos’ | |||
| 10 - 12 12 - 14 | This project is based on the achievement of an effective curriculum development and learning through technological and digital competences, promoting the educational success of learners with emphasis on the environment. The educational centres involved are called "Microcosmos" and delve into the theory of multiple intelligences and the importance of learning through play, remarking the relevance of scientific knowledge and its relationship with the environment. | ||
| Social Sciences | |||
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| The DEBATE: a new interdisciplinary didactic proposal | |||
| 10 - 12 12 - 14 14 - 16 16+ | The Debate methodology teaches is a stimulating invitation to experience a dialogical dialogue and can develop and strengthen linguistic, logical and relational skills. Debating teaches students to seek and select sources with the aim of forming an opinion, developing public speaking skills and educating them in listening, to assess themselves, to improve their cultural awareness and self-esteem. | ||
| Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Humanities, Social Sciences, Art, Sports | |||
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| LET’S REVISE TOGETHER… | |||
| 12 - 14 14 - 16 | Create a digital review path to improve the transition from one school level to the next in different steps. Teacher of the involved subjects select topics that will become the so-called " revision units", corresponding to the essential cores of each subject they dealt with in the previous school year. Teachers prepare multimedia resources according to each unit and invite pupils to use them. | ||
| Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Humanities | |||
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| Scientific Laboratory report | |||
| 12 - 14 14 - 16 | Producing digital scientific laboratory reports, students first learn different parts that make up the report, then try with more difficult experiments which require specific mathematical skills and data analysis. They can also enrich the document with photos and video of the experiments. Teacher can also plan a collaborative writing activity with google-docs to prepare the report. | ||
| Natural Sciences & Mathematics | |||
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| Personal biographies | |||
| 12 - 14 14 - 16 | The objective of studying biographies is to establish a connection with an individual's success and relate to individuals who have achieved great accomplishments. This is best absorbed by attentive listening, creating own inner relation to someone’s life story and empathizing with the life stories of others. Such stories do not only break down steps towards success, but also bring about a positive outlook to the power of will and perseverance of each individual. Qualities needed to be able to use digital tools for one’s benefit, opposed to growing to be a passive and easily influenced user. | ||
| Humanities | |||
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| Mathematical memes: possible educational uses | |||
| 14 - 16 | The proposed activity aims to put students at the center of a creative act, in which they become the authors of a meme on a topic chosen by the teacher, to which they can add a short video that has the educational objective of bringing out the mathematical content by reinforcing narrative skills. Joining memes and mathematics allows students to be more motivated and involved in a school subject area. | ||
| Natural Sciences & Mathematics | |||
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| Digital Offline | |||
| CREATIVE WRITING IN DIGITAL FORM | |||
| 14 - 16 | Create a digital book exploring a general theme (nature and respect for natural environments) will become a learning experience relating to different areas (photography, poetry, language learning, multimedia communication) and requiring first individual work and then cooperation. All media literacy abilities are involved, from production and reception to selection, through critical reflection. | ||
| Humanities | |||
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| Digital Offline | |||
| Interdisciplinary magazine in English | |||
| 14 - 16 | Create an interdisciplinary online magazine in English as a foreign language and with thematic issues, to be published annually on the school website. This in order to deepen study topics, acquire an interdisciplinary perspective, be able to select information using technologies and digital resources. Media literacy abilities involved: production, reception, selection and critical reflection. | ||
| Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Humanities, Social Sciences | |||
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| EXPERIMENT WITHOUT A LAB | |||
| 14 - 16 | The scientific experiment is carried out through multimedia tools. Teacher show how tool works and then students practice individually realizing the experiment independently, filming it by their smartphone camera and collect and analyse data. Then students can discuss the results and draw conclusions. | ||
| Natural Sciences & Mathematics | |||
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| Digital Online | |||
| FAKE NEWS OFF | |||
| 14 - 16 | This activity develops digital citizenship skills. Students are trained to distinguish fake from real news. Students study fake news also from an historical point of view and build a toolbox of the fake detective. Then, they apply the knowledge acquired through slides and examples and they try to build a fake. | ||
| Humanities | |||
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| Analogue Transfer (technology supported) | |||
| Human Brain and the Reward System | |||
| 14 - 16 | Understanding the human organism is important for individual autonomy and freedom. Not only does it contribute to factual knowledge, it may also provide a crucial impetus for the youngster’s practical life orientation.In this unit the youngster may get to know the elements of the entertainment technology that are bound to affect the processes within his/her spirit and soul life. | ||
| Humanities, Natural Sciences and mathematics | |||
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| Analogue Transfer (technology supported) | |||
| Creating a Historical Magazine | |||
| 14 - 16 16+ | Involving students in magazine editing activities implies going through activities that contribute to cognitive development (reading, identifying, selecting and processing information materials, writing them, integrating media elements (film, audio component, etc.)), physical development (activities that involve movement, coordination, orientation, etc.) and affective development (emotions, feelings, attitudes towards an authentic product). Relevance for media education is that both traditional and modern styles can be used. | ||
| Humanities | |||
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| Public speaking workshop | |||
| 14 - 16 16+ | This activity maintains the interest for authenticity of both oral and written word and for the act of speaking, reading, writing by maintaining constant relationship with the benefits of communication, written language and social skills development. The accomplishment of these tasks involves the development of the cognitive, socio-emotional, practical abilities of the teenagers to produce, understand and critically evaluate various oral and written contents, relevant to traditional and modern media types. | ||
| Humanities, Art | |||
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| The Publishing house and the living book | |||
| 14 - 16 16+ | This activity is both a way to value an educational and cultural institution - i.e. a publishing house, which has recently lost a lot of ground, and a psycho-pedagogical strategy to form and develop important and necessary key skills for any student. The tools of intellectual work are recommended to be integrated in a continuous process. The design, elaboration, and editing of a living book is a complex process that capitalizes on students' existing skills but also their latent potential. | ||
| Humanities, Art | |||
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| Simulated enterprise - Young Business Talents | |||
| 16+ | The simulated enterprise is a teaching method capable of bridging the gap between study and the world of work, based on learning by doing and capable of synthesizing the trinomial KNOWLEDGE - KNOW HOW TO DO - KNOW HOW TO BE. The growing development of business simulation can be explained by the originality of the pedagogical model, which aims at developing a new type of learning system. | ||
| Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Humanities | |||
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| Peer education against bullying and cyberbullying | |||
| 16+ | The Internet and social networks have transformed the virtual world into reality, becoming the main place for young people to meet and express themselves. Messages from the web can lead to a false self-image, different from the frustrating one of everyday life, which leads to addiction, manipulation, omnipotence and a false sense of membership, which sometimes have tragic results. | ||
| Social Sciences | |||
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| CAD-CAE-CAM – Artefact design | |||
| 16+ | The rapid spread of information technology has led to radical transformations in applied sciences, resulting in a continuous and unstoppable evolution in every technological, production and management sector. An obvious and significant change has involved the manufacturing industry, which has increasingly become a place of systemic integration involving the most advanced technologies. | ||
| Natural Sciences & Mathematics | |||
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| Web-radio/tv | |||
| 16+ | Form a student-run web radio group at the institute to broadcast cultural events and student interests. Collaborate on the basis of students’ aptitudes (organization, technology, cultural research, and social media advertising). The aspects of media literacy directly involved are the critical selection of contents, the forms of communication and the production of multimedia material. | ||
| Humanities, Social Sciences | |||
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| Digital Online | |||
| Augmented Image | |||
| 16+ | Enhance and make educational content more engaging, such as by adding links to external content, illustrations, graphics, and 360° images. The goal is to provide a better understanding of various disciplines, such as history, geography, art, and school spaces. Media literacy includes critical content selection, effective communication through images, and the production of multimedia material. | ||
| Humanities | |||
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| The advertising message: reception and production | |||
| 16+ | The project first involves multimedia advertising text analysis in its semantic components and then the transfer of this skill in producing a message again with a persuasive function through the use of different integrated media. The activity is clearly addressing children who experience the onset of the ability of critical reflection. Thus, it may comprise all media literacy stages. | ||
| Humanities, Social Sciences | |||
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| Analogue Transfer (technology supported) | |||
| Find Movie message - creating plot script | |||
| 16+ | The activity Find Movie message - creating plot script aims to guide and bring teenagers closer to watch quality video content considered as contemporary visual art. Together with handwriting, the act of reading makes up the basic literacy, which is achieved by physical means, respectively printed materials. The activity involves on one hand, the actual watching of a movie, the composition of the top, and the production of the written material, the purpose of the latter being to promote the act of writing among adolescents. | ||
| Humanities | |||
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| Top 10 novels to be read in adolescence | |||
| 16+ | This activity involves compiling top 10 of the most interesting novels to be read during adolescence and making a trailer consisting of sequences created for each novel read. The activity involves the actual reading of the novels, the composition of the top, and the production of the video material. The activity addresses both modern and traditional media education and contributes to the promotion and using both directions in order to gain knowledge and wide perspective. | ||
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| Digital Online | |||
| Creating a blog on cyberbullying in English | |||
| 16+ | Hypothetical deductive reasoning is the ability to think scientifically by generating predictions or hypotheses about the world to answer questions. Students are supposed to generate new output that is processed actively in their brains together with their former information in a constructivist way. The activity answers the need of understanding digital media from a critical point of view and being able to generate critical content for other users. | ||
| Humanities, Social Sciences | |||
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| Digital Online | |||
| Podcast on educative social networks in English | |||
| 16+ | Understanding the digital media on the net from a critical point of view and being able to generate critical content is necessary for the students’ digital security. Thus, L2 learners will convey a meta-reflection on the educational uses of social networks. They will learn to produce an online digital output based on a speaking activity that will develop their communicative abilities in English. | ||
| Humanities | |||
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| Digital online | |||
| Writing Collaborative Tale using Chat GPT | |||
| 16+ | The main objective of this activity is that the students of English as a foreign language learn to generate complex content out of previous information and share it with a completely new digital environment in a critical way. In addition, the selected subject for the tale-writing online activity has to do with the world of English literature and its landmarks. | ||
| Humanities | |||
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