ASEF ClassNet Stories

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• Creating bridges between Europe and Asia

  Mrs Marianna Kajdi, English Teacher at Varga Katalin Secondary School
  January 2013, Hungary

  I attended 10th ASEF Classroom Network Conference [HYPERLINK TO 10TH CONFERENCE PAGE] in Dundalk, Ireland, in November 2011, which created a massive pillar of the cultural and educational bridge connecting schools in Europe and Asia, one in Hungary – Varga Katalin Gimnázium in Szolnok. Overwhelmed by the experience and supported by two colleagues, I participated in the four ASEF ClassNet Online Collaborations, namely “A Diary of Our Culture”, “Chain Stories”, “Our Heroes, Our Inspirations” and “Famous Mathematicians” with about 30 students in my school.

• Coding in the Contemporary School

  Mr Adam Stepinski, Teacher of English and History at Copernicus Upper-Secondary School
  June 2015, Tarnobrzeg, Poland

  Coding has recently become a buzzword in education. Teaching programming skills to students is perceived as a long-term solution to the ‘skills gap’ between the number of technology jobs in the industry today and the graduates qualified to fill them. Many specialists claim teaching word-processing and working on spreadsheets etc. is not enough in the 21st century. Students should instead consider focusing on creating their own programs and making computers work for our common benefit. It is estimated that the number of unfilled ICT vacancies in Europe only will reach over 800,000 during the next five years and it is predicted that there will be approximately 26 billion devices on the ‘Internet of Things’ by 2020. Such astonishing statistics prove that a large number of coders will be needed in the years to come. In the European e-Skills Manifesto published last year, it was said, “The world is going digital and so is the labour market(…). Skills like coding are the new literacy. Whether you want to be an engineer or a designer, a teacher, nurse or web entrepreneur, you’ll need digital skills”.

• Celebrating Students’ Achievements in Ireland

  Ms Adrienne Webb, ICT Co-ordinator at St. Michael's Holy Faith Secondary School
  June 2011, Ireland

  Each year just before we go on summer holidays, the school hosts an awards ceremony. All students, along with parents of those receiving awards and their teachers attend in the sports hall.
  This is quite a crowd as there are over 500 students attend the school. Traditional African drumming opens the proceedings amid an air of excitement and anticipation. Students are called by name and presented with certificates stating what the award is for.

• Celebrating our bonds and relationships with people of diverse cultures

  Mr Muhd Farhan and Ms Stephanie Sim, Students at Millennia Institute
  April 2011, Singapore

  International Friendship Day is about celebrating our bonds and relationships we have with people of diverse cultures, and also to strengthen that bond by means of faith and love. This is an event that signifies the great presence of the many different people we have around us, so that we learn to appreciate them and the impacts they have made in our lives.

• Celebrating “iMagz – Making Myself Heard”

  Ms Princess Guillen M. Albano, Student at Davao City National High School
  April 2014, Davao, Philippines

  Working with people in different places with different languages, race and culture is unbelievable. The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) made this unbelievable thing possible through supporting and initiating internationally acclaimed Online Collaborations which need collaborations of countries from Asia and Europe.

• Boon Lay Secondary School (Singapore) Inaugural Homestay Exchange with Indian Schools

  Mr Tan Chor Pang, Principal at Boon Lay Secondary School
  March – April 2016, Singapore

  Boon Lay Secondary School (Singapore) hosted Rishikul Vidyapeeth School (India) and St Marks Girls Secondary School (India) from 17 to 23 March and 25 March to 2 April respectively. The visits had the objectives of promoting global citizenry through the development of socio-cultural sensitivity and awareness as well as enhancing students’ communication and collaboration skills. To this end, the exchange students and teachers were hosted to a home-stay by their Singaporean hosts for the entire duration of their stay.

• Asynchronous Communication in Projects

  Mr Adam Stepinski, Teacher of English and History at Copernicus Upper-Secondary School
  November 2014, Tarnobrzeg, Poland

  Although research so far has clearly described the independent advantages and disadvantages of using synchronous and asynchronous tools, there are almost no studies investigating the pedagogical outcomes when they are converged. When such research does exist, it tends to focus on solving problems with the media itself, rather than its pedagogical role. It is not enough to assume that the combination of synchronous and asynchronous tools carries the benefits of each type of media in isolation. In particular, it is important to understand how individuals’ synchronous communication affects their asynchronous threaded discussions if we are to identify the pedagogical benefits and pitfalls of using a synchronous tool within an asynchronous online learning and cooperation environment.

• ASEF Online Collaboration “Where Music Lives” at the Innovative Teachers Forum

  Ms Svetlana Dõtsenko, ICT Manager at Lasnamae Gymnasium
  March 2011, Estonia

  Innovative Teachers’ Forums are part of the Innovative Teachers Programme, a global community of educators sponsored by Microsoft. The Microsoft Partners in Learning European Forum was held in Moscow from 22 to 24 March 2011. The forum celebrates work of innovative teachers and gives them an opportunity for fantastic networking and learning experiences.

• ASEF ClassNet Programme Brings Out the Best in Us!

  Mrs Noor Ezah bt Abu Bakar, Head of Language Department at SM Sains Seri Puteri
  July 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  As a member of ASEF ClassNet, I have lots of things to share about this commendable International Programme. I was first introduced to ASEF ClassNet programme by Ms Chin Siew Siew, my former colleague of Sekolah Alam Shah Putrajaya (Malaysia) in 2009. I feel grateful to her for giving me the opportunity to learn what ASEF ClassNet is all about. Initially, Ms Chin offered a few Online Collaborations and I chose “Chain Stories” so that my students could express themselves creatively in the English language. The Online Collaboration was coordinated by Ms Helene Tind, a very dynamic teacher from Herfoelge School (Denmark). I was glad that Online Collaboration was conferred the Merit Award for that year.

• ASEF ClassNet Online Collaborations: The Power of Sharing

  PrProfessor Noemi Lusi, Professor of English language and literature at Liceo Classico Plauto
  October 2013, Rome, Italy

  Sharing, connecting, linking… That’s what contemporary society is all about and that’s what youngsters are particularly attracted by.
  This is why our way of teaching has to change. Organizing our activity around direct lessons in class behind a teachers’ desk cannot be the only way. We have to focus our attention on strategies which lead the group to learning through activities proposed in their language, the language of digital natives.