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FactFile:International Design and Build
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Working in Collaboration
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Bringing language and technology together
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Most products are the result of an international collaboration, from concept through to design, testing, evaluation, modification and production. Pupils at Malsis School in North Yorkshire, UK and a partner school in France, will use SchoolNet Global to facilitate a cross-curricular, cross-channel design and build project that reflects real-life manufacturing processes.
Working together online will be a catalyst for language learning, giving children the motivation to have purposeful conversations. Children will work with a partner from the collaborating school to develop solutions to an agreed task. They will draw up their designs together, then swap products and build each other’s inventions.
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Communicating Effectively
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Design and Technology at Malsis School
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Ben Freeman is Deputy Headteacher at Malsis School. He plans to bring both departments together to run the project. He says, “Learning to express themselves clearly in the non-native language will be essential to the participating children - and getting their designs built correctly will be a motivating force for effective communication. It will be a very real and exciting challenge.” In addition to conversational skills, children will acquire specialist vocabulary as they build a bi-lingual glossary of technical terminology.
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Building Self-Esteem
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Building each other's designs
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The beauty of participating in cross-cultural pairs is that the children will have no pre-conceived ideas of each other's abilities and personalities. This will help foster relationships, and build confidence and self-esteem, helping to motivate children to develop their language and communication skills.
Children will record the manufacturing process using photographs and digital video to create an illustrated evaluation to be published on SchoolNet Global. “The online gallery will be a fantastic resource and will enable children to view and discuss their inventions,” says Ben. “Knowing their work will be published to the world, for their friends and family to see on SchoolNet Global will add another motivating dimension to the project.”
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