MANY THANKS TO THE HAYES SCHOOL.

In today's World, people are mostly in need of caring each other. Sharing is a very important way to get virtuousness. As teachers and students of Hayes School and İncekum Primary, we know that happiness comes after sharing something. With this in mind, the Hayes school has promoted our Toy Collecting Company for the children in Van Province where there was a very bir earthquake 4 months ago. They have sent 7 boxes of toys. This was the last part of our international campaign. We are going to deliver them to Erciş District of Van where there are still people in tents.

NOTES FROM DYNED MEETING

DynEd (Dynamic Education) meeting was held by Mrs. Bilge Arslan in Antalya to evaluate the work of the first term and to roadmap for the second term. DynEd coordinators from all the districts attended the meeting. Almost all coordinators participated in the meeting. It was actually helpful for us because we had a chance to see what we had done so far and we shared our ideas to bring it a step forward in our schools. We decided to organize urgent meetings in our region to inform the DynEd officers of the schools about decisions taken at the meeting and in this way, to broaden its impact among the students since it helps English learning. We asked the questions derived from the experiences we had faced and got immediate and clear answers so we provided motivation on the task. All the coordinators left the meeting satisfied with adequate knowledge about what to do next. Moreover, coming together and sharing information with colleagues having similar point of view is really fun.

POSITIVE DIGITAL CITIZENS

Recently, ICT is being used at schools as an educational tool. We use technology on a daily basis-instant messaging, posting & watching videos, gaming and networking. That’s we are now actually digital citizens.

At this point, as Turkey, Poland, Estonia, Romania, England and Sweden, we have decided to create a Comenius Project for 2012-2014. The project “Positive Digital Citizens (PDC)” is a key to supply safe, appropriate and healthy usage of ICT both at school and at home. The project will lead pupils to become conscious European citizens having responsible behavour with regard to technology use. By implementing the project, we aim to get rid of the harmful effects of technology and to highlight the beneficial aspects of its. Especially, Pupils will be taught effective ICT usage, criticizing and being selective. We will mainly focus on digital communication, literacy, responsibility, information exchange, etiquette and security and the activities will be created accordingly. In brief, the project will give plenty of opportunities to pupils to share their interests and individual works in a digital media and to comment on, to communicate, to have fun and to gain information positively.

The potential broader impact of the project will be the change of pupils’ habits positively about using ICT. The project results will be shared with Europe-wide schools thanks to our web site and blogs to promote greater understanding and it will encourage teaching, training or other learning opportunities by the help of improved ICT skills among the target groups. The local societies will also benefit from the project results by taking active roles in most of the stages of the project by joining the online surveys, exhibitions, some activities and decision-making mechanism. As a result, pupils, teachers and community will gather technological knowledge which will be handy for life.