ILC - Innovative Learning Center
Our school's Information Technologies teacher, Yağmur DEMİR, participated in the project creation event organized within the scope of the e-Twinning Hackathon Program organized by Izmir Provincial MEM, and the project created in the group she was involved in came first in the event. Within the scope of the project, 15 volunteer students from our school who are in the 5th and 6th grades are working.
The e-Twinning project named 'ILC: INNOVATIVE Learning Centre', which started its activities in January, was created in December and has been published in Turkey(10), Romania(5), Republic of Moldova(3), Serbia(3), Portugal(2), Italy( It is a project with 27 partners: 1), Bulgaria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Albania (1).
Project's Aims
The aim of our project is to enable students to develop positive attitudes towards school by providing them with 21st century skills such as developing their interests, skills and creativity, developing their digital skills, and developing their self-expression skills by using innovative learning methods and advanced educational tools.
Our goals;
1) Our students learn the eTwinning platform and eSafety rules.
2) Improving students' digital skills with the digital contents to be used.
3) Students should take examples of good practices from other schools and carry these good examples to their own schools.
4) Developing digital literacy, information literacy and self-expression skills with technology workshops.
5) Instilling social, moral and cultural values such as Charity, Empathy, cooperation and responsibility through the Values Workshop.
6) Developing students' critical thinking and creativity with the I Learn with Games Workshop.
Project's Rules
RULES
1) Communication with mutual tolerance
2) Respect for one's privacy during events
3) Establishing a strong interaction relationship
4) Paying attention to e-safety in all steps
5) Using a respectful language in forums in teacher-student relations and student-student relations
6) FIGHTING CHALLENGES
https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/etwinning_code_of_conduct
BUSINESS PROCESS (PRE-PLANNING)
DECEMBER 2023: ESTABLISHMENT OF OUR PROJECT
- Creation of our project
- Receiving parental permission petitions and raising e-Security awareness
- Adding our students to twinspace
- Editing our Twinspace pages
- Carrying out project promotion activities
- FORUM EVENT (STUDENT): Let's Meet, Will You Play With Me?
JANUARY 2024:ORIENTATION STUDIES
- Creating Our Project Logo
- Preparation and implementation of an attitude scale to measure students' attitudes towards school (https://get.plickers.com/)
- Preparation and implementation of tools to measure digital skills (http://quizizz.com/)
- Students' introduction to web 3.0 tools (metaverse)
- ILC1: GOOD EXAMPLES FROM OUR SCHOOL
- ILC Workshop-1: Online-Student: In the study activity, students present their schools and examples of good practices in their schools to each other. (Canva)
- FORUM EVENT (STUDENT): Student dating game
- ILC Workshop-1: Online-Teacher
FEBRUARY 2024: MY DREAM SCHOOL
ILC2: MY DREAM SCHOOL
- ILC Workshop-2: Online-Student: Obtaining students' opinions on the subject of Our Dream School via web 2.0 tools; Determining the name of our dream school (mentimeter or wordart)
- Creating my dream school anthem with web 3.0 tool (Suno.ai)
- Creating the school pennant (Canva)
- Determining the departments of schools (genially)
- FORUM EVENT (Student): Which departments should be in my school?
- ILC Workshop-2: Online-Teacher
MARCH 2024: LIFE AT SCHOOL
- ILC3: MY TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP:
(Purpose: To raise individuals who can integrate Innovative Technologies into their lives)
- Introducing students to web 2.0 and web 3.0 tools
- Creating student mixed groups (team maker)
- Mixed groups will work in sequential technology stations.
- Station 1: Hologram, image creation
- Station 2: What are the differences between augmented reality and virtual reality? (Virtual reality glasses will be made of cardboard.)
- Station 3: What is Artificial Intelligence? Chat with ChatGPT, Robots world, Sophia,
- Station 4: A day at my Dream School with StoryJumper
- FORUM ACTIVITY (Student): How should classes be taught in my school?
- ILC Workshop-3: Online-Teacher
APRIL 2024: LIFE AT SCHOOL
- ILC4: MY VALUES WORKSHOP
(Purpose: To raise "good" people)
- With the It's Your Turn Event, awareness will be raised about values such as kindness and helpfulness. (Forum Event)
- ILC5: I LEARN THROUGH GAMES MY WORKSHOP
- (Purpose: Using interdisciplinary relationships, teaching courses in a versatile way)
- A sample gamified lesson plan will be created and covered with our course topics. (Our children will earn badges through the games designed here and spend them at the school market of their dreams.) (actionbound)
- FORUM ACTIVITY (Student): How Should My Relationship with My Friends Be at My Dream School?
- ILC Workshop-4: Online-Teacher
MAY 2024: PROJECT EVALUATION
-Application of the latest attitude scale to measure students' attitudes towards school (https://get.plickers.com/)
- Conducting a post-test survey to measure digital skills (http://quizizz.com/)
- Creating survey reports by comparing them
- Creation of our INNOVATIVE VIRTUAL SCHOOL (emaze)
- DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
- FORUM EVENT (Student): I'm Telling About My Dream School.
- ILC Workshop-3: Online-Student
- ILC Workshop-5: Online-Teacher
I collected permission slips from students' families.
Then, we held an information meeting with the students and repeated these meetings every month.
Our Safe Internet Day Event
Our board titled "Internet Safety Day", which we created on the ground floor of our school and where we want to raise awareness about e-security among our students.
The tasks given to teacher Yağmur in the task distribution were as follows: Planning and organizing the student online meeting: (Project Introduction, Safe Internet, Kahoot) All partners marked their countries:
https://earth.google.com/earth/d/1zB1RS3U4m39FggGChIQfycPYe9Q0DD4O?usp=sharing
The students' meeting event took place via padlet.
https://padlet.com/kamerakcaydeniz/ahenkli-padlet-im-w2sdl96ikfwmj8uq
The teachers' meeting event took place via twinspace.
Then, we held our first teacher workshop on February 24, 2024.
And then we tried a metaverse meeting with suitable Turkish teachers.
We held our student workshop on March 5,2024. We announced our meeting with this poster:
Online meetings were held on secure internet with the products offered in this workshop. Our students prepared it. We made a quiz with Quizizz.
We held another workshop on April 26, 2024.
In this study, we participated in a conversation about artificial intelligence.
We held another workshop on May 6, 2024.
Among the logos designed by our students at our school, the winning logo was:
The winner of the logo competition was:
My students and I also loved the winning logo.
All students were encouraged to participate in Pretest and Posttest Surveys.
The results were published on twinspace.
We participated in the poster activity with this poster chosen from among the posters designed by our students:
Good Examples from Our School
Our school is on a mountain in Narlıdere, where the settlement ends. We are a real forest school. There are wonderful trees around us. Since we are so high up, we have an endless sea view. The best thing is that we are far away from exhaust fumes and vehicle noise.
Project Song
The lyrics added by us to our project song are as follows:
There is happiness in my dream school.
I'm running, having fun.
I love my school so much.
Long live my forest school.
MY DREAM SCHOOL
Departments of My Dream School (Idea)
We add the departments we want in our school by clicking on the link.
https://www.tricider.com/brainstorming/2cal0xbFiSN
My Dream School's Departments
https://view.genially.com/65fe1222a5aec300143e5dcb/interactive-image-ilc-innovative-learning-centre
My students added a flying balloon and water slide here. Anything is possible for our dream school, after all...
Then, my students prepared and published an e-book about the school of their dreams.
https://www.storyjumper.com/book/read/174148821/INNOVATIVE-LEARNNG-CENTER-ILC
The Name of My Dream School
https://www.tricider.com/admin/3ZleZ113WZp/4J3owdpLwY1
LIFE IN SCHOOL
One Day In School
We prepared a day at our dream school by making additions to the common project ebook.
https://www.storyjumper.com/book/read/172838311/663ea14c76c83
Technology Workshop
My students made a presentation about virtual reality and augmented reality and applied a Kahoot quiz.
My Values Workshop
In the smile challenge, my students answered the question of how many artificial intelligence can smile at the same time by creating a visual with artificial intelligence.
E TWİNNİNG DAY
On eTwinning Day, we prepared a board consisting of the connotations of eTwinning to our students and shot a video.
Our Video Link:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z6y-Y2r5c_w
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
We will show our project in the 2023-2024 eTwinning Izmir Hackhathon Bulletin. (page 67)
URL https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KVwlDAC8we8YJcx13GMXTieoqob1z6-gRjgF0y9…
We took our place in the eTwinning Izmir Bulletin. (page:124)
URL https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/147APIb-ALgINiaQ2Bz7Il7KFvGaqbIv0SVUgHDV…
Bulletins featuring our project:
https://bit.ly/2024İzmireTwinningHackathonuBülteni
https://bit.ly/2024eTwinningİzmirBülteni
https://x.com/IzmirEtwinning/status/1803127268501328275?t=4jw6_HN1PZoYR1oYCHwnKQ&s=08
https://x.com/IzmirEtwinning/status/1803128725589876940?t=_ANmNqQMGbZbTKRl3g5JQA&s=08
https://www.instagram.com/p/C8XaWCBNQLN/?igsh=MXB1NTh1d2diNXM4Zw==
https://www.instagram.com/p/C8XcLF1te-b/?igsh=MTZnZWZwN3Vwc3U2cg==
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/doXVkEsATjHKoCHr/?mibextid=xfxF2i
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/eiTk7XcX5QKaWpu7/?mibextid=xfxF2i
INTEGRATION of THE PROJECT INTO THE CURRICULUM
I associated the project with the Information Technologies course curriculum for 5th and 6th grades:
https://www.canva.com/design/DAGIaMLWQZU/LXsUWKRfu8IYY0hoDet5_w/view?utm_content=DAGIaMLWQZU&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor
We were able to collect the opinions of our students and teachers with the padlet I created at the end of the project.
This was my students' and my school's first etwinning project. We were very excited. We were very happy to take part in the project. One of his biggest contributions to us is how happy it is to share knowledge. Thank you very much to everyone involved in the project. I distributed digital certificates to all
my students who participated in the project.
