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Telecommunication educational project(ORT-Russia)

The energy consumption and the extreme situations

Dr. Jeanne V. Umanskaya

MTS ORT (1299)

Russia

Moscow – Chazzan – Samara – Chishinau

Zaporojie - Vilnius – Dnepropetrovsk – Sank-Petersburg

2005

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Introduction This report presents the

telecommunication project on Physics and Technology.

My name is Jeanne Umanskaya. I am a teacher of Physics, Astronomy and

Technology in the Moscow ORT Technology School ( Russia).

I am a initiator, organizer and manager of this project

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I present the group work of students, teachers and educators of the schools and centers of ORT Russia and CIS.

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World ORT It is important to notice that our work would

have not been possible without technical and financial support of the World ORT. This support gives teachers the chance to implement latest innovative ideas, which makes ORT schools the best of the best.

We express our sincere appreciation to all who helped us in our work, especially Michele Libkin ( Moscow office ORT Russia) and dr. Marina U. Buharkina (Moscow office ORT Russia),

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General Goals

We must teach our students to live and survive in this difficult world so that they can be competitive on a labour market, successful in career making, contributing members of society and can lead their lives with dignity

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To reach these goals we need:

To develop students’ competence in cognitive activity;

To develop students’ skills in conducting a research process,

To develop students’ skills in self-guided learning, To develop skills in critical thinking, To develop skills in team work, To set up an on-line ORT students community of e-

learners (second stage).

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Project-based learning + I-net =Telecommunication project

There are different educational technology to achieve the abovementioned goals. . But we think what one of the best is Internet-assisted project -based learning.

Telecommunication project is a collaboration of students, teachers, technical support team, in developing new experience and knowledge, mastering skills in different kinds of cognitive activities (research, role games, creative actions, case studies). Thes activities incorporates:

cooperate learning Internet application the research contains a problem, which is personally important for

every team member the research work has accurately negotiated and defined goals,

tasks and research methods the project implies practical results.

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Telecommunication project«The energy consumption and the extreme

situations» Participants:

- 10 group (more than 30 students) from 5 centers and schools of ORT CIS;

- 15 teachers and employees from 10 centers. Communication:

– e-mail and forum “Project Forum” (http://pf.ort.ru)

Period of the work:

November 2004 – May 2005.

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Academic goals:Subject Themes

1.Technology Power resource of technology

2.Physics Energy, form and methods of transformed energy, generation, translate, utilization it.

3. ICT I-net, e-mail, search programmers,

Word, Power Point, html-page

4.Geography Economic and climatic condition in the different regions of the Earth

5.Biology Metabolism, daily norm consumption of the energy for man, limited condition

(temperature, pressure, humidity and other)

6.English and Russian

language

Translate texts, text summary orally and in writing

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Themes for students 1. Station in the Antarctic

2. Station in the drift ice-floe in the Arctic

3. Space orbital station

4. Submarine

5. Rally “Paris – Dakar”

6. Archeology expedition

7. Cinema and TV-group in the distant place of the Earth

8. Group of the alpinists

9. Oil-derrick or bore-hole

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Planning resultsWorking on the project the student was to give the

answers to the following questions: What is energy needed for there? What are especially there in each proposing

situation? What resources of the energy have people in this

conditions? What energy producing devices are the best in that

location? How do they work? What fuel is needed? How much fuel is needed? What food and clothes do people need in this or that

situation?

Students were supposed to illustrate their works with photos, pictures, schemes.

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Resource of the information

Books Newspapers and science magazine CD Internet Museum and exhibitions Letters to the participates of the real

expeditions Real manufactures, factories, works

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Structure of projectStage Period

1.Coordinate teachers from different school and centers

2 weeks

2.Organize interschool groups. Meeting in the forum. Choose themes.

2 weeks

3. Project group work in the forum: collecting data, processing data, discussing results

9 weeks

Developing final materials of the project ready for the defense

4 weeks

5.Defence of the project 2 weeks

6.Evaluatioin and closing up 1 week

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Structure of the forum

Instruction ta lk ing Jury

C onferention of pro ject

Them e 1 Them e 2

W ork for them es

Project forum

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Life in the forum

All participants of the forum may: read and white texts in old themes, add new themes for discussion, attach tables, charts and pictures, organize interrogate, add self image-picture (avatar)

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Design of the student‘s work

1.Document Word

2.Presentation Power Point

3.html-page

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Defense of the projectBoard of referees

The referee was chosen from the centers which do not participate in our project.

The groups located their project materials in the forum.

The referee can ask students any questions in the forum.

The students answer them in the forum. The referee chooses the best group!

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What were the achievements?Pedagogical purposes Result

to form the skill of independent work, +

to form skill to navigate in info space +

to develop critical and creative thinking +(we hope!)

to form communication skills

(We hope to establish friendly relations between students from different ORT schools)

+ -Only 2

interschool groups

to form group work skills +

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What achievements were?Subject‘s purposes Results

I-net, e-mail, browsers,

Word, Power Point, html-page

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(4 group made sites)

Economic and climatic condition in the different regions of the Earth

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daily norm consumption of the energy for man, limited condition (temperature, pressure, humidity and other)

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Translate texts, text summaries orally and in writing

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Energy, form and methods of transforming energy, generation,

translate, utilization it.

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What achievements were?Technology problems Result

Structure of the energy needs +

Describe place and extremely situation

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(even more when need)

Describe energy producing devices

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(very superficial)

Photos, schemes, picture, illustration

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(very much!)

Quality and quantity research --(only 1! Work)

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What achievements were?Resource of the information Choice of groups

Books Popular children encyclopedia

Newspapers and science magazine Almost nobody

CD -

Internet General resource

Museum and exhibitions Only 2 group

Letters to the participates of the real expeditions

only 2 groups

Real manufactures, factories, works nobody!

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What next? Telecommunication project became

a fact of the live in the ORT-space.

We hope our product will get over difficulties and will go on next year.

We hope it will go out of ORT-CIS space and will become world project.

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Thank you for attention!

Author of the presentation Dr. Jeanne V. Umanskaya