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From the Other Side of the Desk
Uploaded on 2/29/2012
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Learning objectives
- How to use the Internet to communicate with each other and with their professors
- Good organizational abilities of the students during their winter holiday and peer to peer education
- Sharing and nourishing their national culture and how to motivate their teachers for interactive teaching organization
Created for
Ages 11 - 13
Subject
Biology
Chemistry
Geography
Mathematics (All)
Music
Physics
Technology/ICT
Twenty-first century skills
21st Century Skills
Collaboration
Communication
Knowledge building & critical thinking
ICT for learning
Problem solving & innovation (creativity)
Student self-assessment
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Bing™ MapsChemistry Add-...
Interactive Cl...
LiveWriter
Microsoft ExcelMicrosoft Offi...
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft Powe...
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GeoGebra
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Required hardware
PC
Instructional approach
Project based learning (PBL)
Personalized learning
Direct instruction
Learning activity details
The project “From the Other Side of the Desk" is an inciative that was started as a commitment for implementing changes in education and as implmentation of those changes in the classroom through inovative teaching methods. The goal of the project is to organize students’ spare time during the winter holiday, giving students active roles in the process of aquiring knowledge and additional motivation and education of professors in the process of implementing ICT in teaching process, and in the same time creating of virtual web page for on line communication and training process between the teachers.
During the first week after winter holiday, the students take over the roles of their teachers and present their activities and programme to them, who take the roles of the students. Within the presentation, the students, devided in groups according to their interests, present the lessons to their teachers.
During the first week after winter holiday, the students take over the roles of their teachers and present their activities and programme to them, who take the roles of the students. Within the presentation, the students, devided in groups according to their interests, present the lessons to their teachers.
