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A class of upper secondary school pupils in France design a questionnaire on the topic of mobile phone etiquette which is used to survey attitudes to “phubbing” among their friends and family in France. A partner class in Germany also seeks responses to the questionnaire in their own context. These survey responses are analysed by learners in each class and each side makes a video in the form of a television news report on the topic. After exchanging these videos, the teachers organise a videoconferencing session where groups of learners discuss the making of the news reports and their views on this and other topics. A final reflective activity involves an individual write-up of the project by each learner.
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Teacher:
"Once I thought they ought to be ready (some of them were, some were not quite), we started the filming. They filmed themselves with a smartphone I had brought. Then they watched the video they had produced on screen and made comments on how they thought they could improve it and we agreed they would film it again the following lesson. The class decided the second version was better. This is the version we sent to Germany along with a group photo."
The second video shows the edited clip produced by two learners in the French class. They used proprietary software to edit a 12-minute film which the teacher then sent to the German partner class. To mimic a television news bulletin, the pupils’ video includes a musical introduction and each “reporter’s” contribution is supplemented with graphics from their analysis of responses to different sections of the questionnaire, before the final credits roll to complete the bulletin.
The pupils’ video constitutes a real-world outcome for the preparatory activities of analysing the responses to their questionnaire from different perspectives (e.g., differences between French and German habits, a comparison of male and female respondents’ behaviour). It also serves as a point of departure for the live exchange by videoconference to follow. In these exchanges, pupils in each country discussed this comparative analysis of attitudes and behaviour with respect to mobile phone use, and the actual making of the video itself.
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Manylion
| Addysgeg | Learners using their own resources;Collaborative learning (collaboration);Real-world outcome |
|---|---|
| Iaith Darged | Saesneg |
| Technoleg | Fideogynadledda |
| Maes | Bywyd a Diwylliant Gwrando / Gwylio Rhyngweithio Llafar Cyflwyniad Llafar Darllen |
| Oedran | 17-21 |
| Sector Addysg | Uwchradd |