Ingrid Zupanc Brečko, I. osnovna šola Celje
Lesson observations and learning process analyses in our schools show that traditional teaching still prevails. There is too little learner-centre orientation. Students are often bored at school. The presented example puts students in a very active position, changes their role and the role of the teacher as well. Students take responsibility for the learning and are independent. With the use of technology students acquire necessary information faster, co-operate easier with each other on distance, record their work, include improvements, teach others and have a window in the world outside the classroom. In the project World class Learning Unleashed students looked for an innovative solution for an interesting learning. They have invented a new method Eggearning (egg+learning) with which we can gain knowledge and skills for the 21st century. With using different resources students came to the conclusion that with one everyday object we can learn more things at once in different areas (e.g. Physics, Geography, Slovene, Biology…). These were divided based on students’ interests and talents. The students distributed tasks on their own, consulted experts and taught each other. They collected their findings on their own website. Interactive tasks were created. A new classroom was established – one with no limits. Students tested their method and became teachers at their school and with their innovative approach impressed other teachers. They gave them an idea for similar activities. From the problem to the solution students used different technology: 1KA for questionnaire, WordPress for website, Execute for interative exercises, GoogleDrive for documents sharing, MovieMaker and YouTube for videos, CorelDraw for designs, PhotoFiltre for pictures, Facebook for sharing. My role as a teacher was not in making it, but motivation, support, feedback, logistics. I did not know the answers. We learnt together, from each other. The presented example shows learning that the youth needs and desires. It encourages creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. It offers different learning, more subjects at once and includes everything that students like: practical work, experiments, video, technology. It enables longer-lasting, better knowledge and learning in a funnier way.
