Brigita Barbarič, Osnovna šola Kuzma, Kuzma
Aims: The main aim and purpose is the cooperation and promotion of an international dialogue in European space as forward-looking education. Etwinners intention, ideas and products try to make everyone cooperating sensible for peaceful solution of conflicts and agreements. We have decided to cooperate with the intention of promotion and improvement of all language skills at learning German as a foreign language. Language skills: We intend to improve reading and speaking skills, as well as writing skills, expanding foreign language vocabulary and terminology. Social skills: We have a wish to learn about other cultures, gain more motivation for learning a foreign language and use it in everyday communication, cooperation and use of media tools, development of self-esteem of pupils, team learning and improvement of knowledge, development of responsible attitude towards learning and getting to know new friends in other countries. ICT competence: Power-point presentation, video conference, working in different web areas and use of various creative computer programmes, social networks and chatting, web talks of current topics. Working process: Young people think of peaceful conflict solving in multicultural and intercultural groups. Working groups consist of pupils aged 11 to 16 from different classes. Topics are adjusted to beginner and advanced learners and also to their interests and wishes. The tasks of pupils contain cross curricular integration. We organize chats, videoconferences, mailing, talks, forums for getting to know each other, exchange ideas, current events in the society. In this project we try to replace the traditional learning roles, motivate pupils for learning and sharing their knowledge with pupils, teachers and parents (flipped learning) with the help of various techniques, methods, learning tools and modern ICT skills. Achievements: Project activities activate and motivate pupils for live communication in German as a foreign language with intensive use of modern communication tool approaches in modern web environment learning. We expect exchange of achievements, trace results, experience, opinion and pupils products. The emphasis should contain European value of modern society such as accepting difference, justice, peace and courage. Pupils highlight problems and conflicts and they deal with them. The integration of such alternative and modern approach, methods and classical learning are important for learning foreign language.
