On October 21-24th 2019, pre-school educators coming from Denmark, Germany, Italy and Cyprus attended successfully the second teacher training of the European project SEEDS: Social Entrepreneurship Empowering Development in Preschools. SEEDS project started at the end of November 2018 to develop a common and European pedagogy for kindergartens, in response to the challenges of the digital age.
On October 2019, our European teachers met in Fablab Bremen (Germany) to think about innovative methods in education, based on experimentation and discovery in preschool activities.
In Bremen, through the use of different materials, teachers tested themselves in terms of creativity and how to use technology in a creative way and for educational purposes.
In Italy, SEEDS involves 6 teachers from 4 different kindergartens in Palermo (Cooperativa Pueri – Spazio 06, La Piccola Casa nel Bosco – Liberamente, Centro internazionale delle culture Ubuntu, Kala Onlus – Il Giardino di Madre Teresa) working in heterogeneous urban contexts and with pupils aged 3-5 yo having different social backgrounds including many migrant children. Based on their experience in SEEDS, teachers mainly use the “gioco libero orientato”, free but oriented game where children are engaged in the exploration of their surroundings.
In all the schools, children play and learn together, in common spaces (open or closed areas) and using SEEDS digital devices: ozobots and beebots. They create and draw paths and imaginary settings to make robots move, reproducing obstacles and learning how to code and give instructions to the robots. Children can also use ozobots and beebots to create maps and explain real places in their school or deal with their body mapping. In other learning sessions, children build their hand-made robots using cardboards, wine corks, polystyrene and plywood caps. They put LED coloured lights and moving batteries to make the robot’s eyes, hands and body light up and have fun.
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About the project
SEEDS – Social Entrepreneurship Empowering Development in Preschools è co-funded by Erasmus+: Key Action 2, Strategic Partnership programme with the main aim to phrase recommendations for a social entrepreneurial and digital pedagogical framework for European preschools.
Partners
The partnership holds together 5 organisations:
- Coordinator: VIFIN Videnscenter for Integration (Danmark)
- CUDIM Center for teaching development and digital media(Danmark)
- CESIE (Italy)
- DIMEB Digital Media in Education (Germany)
- SYNTHESIS Synthesis Center for Research and Education limited (Cyprus)
For further information
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Contact partnership@cesie.org.
