Presentation from a pilot project: eTwinning in teacher education, in the semingar Erasmus+ TCA: Enhancing student mobility in Teacher Education, held at Icelandair Hotel Reykjavik Natura 3.-4. December 2019 

1. A pilot project:
eTwinning in teacher education
Erasmus+ TCA: Enhancing student mobility in Teacher Education
Icelandair Hotel Reykjavik Natura 3.-4. December 2019
Dr. Svava Pétursdóttir
Lecturer, School of Education, University of Iceland.

2. Teacher
education at
School of
Ecucation UI
• B.Ed + M.Ed. or B.A./B.S + M.Ed.
• A large majority are distance students, one week campus
session at the beginning of the semester one week
• Many work full time
• A challenge to broaden horizons
• Opportunities in electronic communications

3. UISE previous eTwinningExperience –2014 to 2016:
Best Practices...
Activities Tools, technologies
Introductions Padlet, Flipgrid
Interaction –
practice sharing
(Facebook) Twinspace, Adobe
Connect, Google Hangout,
(Facebook)
Interpretation – summing up
evaluation
Mindmeister, Mypad
Brussels meetings
Participants
2014to2015:Collaborationwithfouruniversitiesin threecountries:University ofthe BasqueCountry;Universityof Northampton;
University ofDerby;University CollegeofNorthernDenmark.10teachereducators,50 teachertrainees
2015to2016:Collaborationwithtwouniversities in UKandDenmark:University ofNorthamptonandUniversity College ofNorthern
Denmark
Bothyears:teacherstudentsin field practice/placements.
Summary from Sólveig Jakobsdóttir 2018

4. Selection of project
• Theme befitting to eTwinning and the platform
• Digital citizenship in schools
• Professor Sólveig Jakobsdóttir

6. Icebreaking
activities
• Worked well
• Technical difficulties and successes
• Well travelled students!

9. Getting comfortable
with the platform
• a) share a news story/internet meme/web-page/something else you
have come across about children/young people and digital media
• b) Children are growing up in new and developing digital landscapes.
What are the main challenges for schools, teachers, and parents?

10. Results:
• Learning about digital citizenship
• Successful fishbowl seminar on digital citizenship discussions based
on experiences from teaching practice, literature research and
eTwinning forums

11. Results
• Using eTwinning live space
• Off to a slow start but we gradually got there

12. Practical lessons
• Synchronization of semesters
• Student level of study
• Choice of topic
• Engaging students
• Flipped learning
• Assessment of tasks
• Compulsory or elective?
• Keep it simple!!!!

13. Keeping it short
and simple
Simple is not always simple
Slide from eTwinning - TTI Workshop, Monday
27th - Wednesday 29th May 2019, Venue:
Crowne Plaza, Brussels.

14. Slide from eTwinning - TTI Workshop, Monday 27th - Wednesday 29th May 2019, Venue: Crowne Plaza, Brussels.

15. Benefits
• Broadening horizons
• Students get to know eTwinning and the platform
• Learn about teacher education in other countries
• Developing skills
• Language
• Communication
• Technology
• Empathy
• Fun :)

16. Lessons from first project
Benefits Challenges, improvments...?
Building relations
Creation
Innovation
New target group – new
approaches
eTwinning trainee ambassadors
Persistence, resilience, patience
Better meeting platform, simpler webpage
Countries to have same expectations,
commitments
Clarify structure, goals,
More info about placement times
More conference calls, communications
Joint projects, f2f meetings
Summary from Sólveig Jakobsdóttir 2018

17. Obstacles will eventually remove themselves?
You need patience and mindfulness?Obstacles will eventually remove
themselves?
You need patience and mindfulness?
Slide from Sólveig Jakobsdóttir
2018

18. Upcoming projects
• Science across Europe: an experience with trainee teachers
• Iceland, Spain, Slovenia, Sweden
• Three partners from different parts of Europe will collect, exchange and
evaluate the measurements related to locally dependent science phenomena.
• Getting to know eTwinning
• Iceland, Spain
• Two partners with large 1st year cohorts planning a simple elective project

19. Takk ,
kiitos,
danke,
tak,
merci,
tusind tak!
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