International ICT Seagulls Project starts its ninth year. We are going to start the Registration on 20th October 2011. The following section will give the needed information concerning the projects of the year 2012. I wish a very fruitful and successful project season with intensive participation and a great collaboration.
PROJECT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:
We aim at training innovative, contemporary and qualified generations who
are;
- good at using the
Internet and ICT technology efficiently and effectively,
- aware of the importance
of collaboration (=İmece) and team spirit,
- skilful in determining
and solving their own problems and also the problems of the community,
- knowledgeable about
research rules and ethics,
- brave and hardworking
enough to implement the strategies developed for the problem areas,
- Well-trained and creative in sharing their project steps on an innovative PowerPoint presentation, web page and/or Blog.
Through this
Project;
- Awareness will be created upon the student-teacher circles (teams) related to;
- Human dignity, cultural sensitivity and
tolerance,
- Cultural
sensitivity and tolerance,
- Gaining a historical
perspective about the studies issues,
- Team spirit
through World Bank awarded “İmece Circles” methodology,
- Quality focused
issues and tools,
- Technological
& Environmental literacy,
- Creativity:
Original and authentic design info,
- Time, meeting,
conflict, stress and portfolio management,
- Ethics, especially
respecting the copyrights of others,
- Communication
skills & Problem-solving skills,
- The necessity of feeding “Mind-Body and Spirit” in a positive way.
- Young generations will be motivated to be
more creative, productive and investigative whatever they study on.
- Participants will develop a positive attitude towards the importance of sharing the results of their projects at a very extraordinary style_ using their imagination to fly towards the beyond of limits just like; “The Seagull Jonathan Livingstone”; not only at national but also at international platforms.
PROJECT
TOPICS:
This year, we
proposed four main themes in order to enlarge the project areas to give more
freedom to the student teams. They are as follows:
1.
How
can we increase the rate of success in schools? How can we train more qualified
generations?
2.
How
can social media help students highlight their talents?
3.
How
can we develop “Environmental Sensitivity” in our community prevent the rapid
death of our planet?
4.
In
the context of interpersonal interactions and relationships, how can we motivate
youngsters to more Ethical reasoning, which is not only an aim on its own
right, but also a potential mechanism to protect the
vulnerable and the decent from unethical occurrences in schools such as
bullying, mobbing and unfairness on the part of teachers or any other superiors?
OUR
SLOGAN: Hand-in-hand; on
the way of training dignified, successful, empathetic, ethical, environment and
technology literate new generations…
I wish a very fruitful and successful project season with intensive participation and a great collaboration.
Hayal Köksal, Ph.D.
Project Designer
