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 July, 2009 3
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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be heldresponsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.Page 1 of 3
Connect theTEachers to reach and teach theNEtGENeration
LLP-LdV-TOI-2008-HU-016
Welcome
This 24 months long project is a collaboration of 11
partners from five countries. The “transfer of innovation” will ‘valorize’ the results of two earlier
successful LdV projects: SLOOP and NETIS. TheSLOOP project (Sharing Learning Objects in anOpen Perspective) demonstrates key concepts in e-learning 2.0; NETIS provides the philosophical,sociological, and pedagogical basis to support newparadigms of teaching and learning in theInformation Society. The aim of Tenegen project isto establish an European environment of 
’connectivism’ for VET teachers and trainers, to
show the significant advantages of being connectedto the n-
Gen instead of simply ’delivering’ 
knowledge through virtual classrooms and LearningManagement System.
Tenegen Teamwww.tenegen.eu 
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WELCOME
 
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TENEGEN EXPERIENCES
 
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NEWS
 
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ACTIVITIES
 
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EVENTS
 
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PROJECT BASICS
 
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This issue has been published by:CNR-ITD, ITALYEditor: Giovanni FulantelliCopyright © Tenegen Consortium
Tenegen experiences
One of the most interesting challenges we have to face in the Tenegen project is how to train
teachers fromtraditional schools
on
new pedagogies for net generation
, by using a
distance course
! In fact, we are talking of 3different educational models to be handled: learning in traditional schools, that have their roots in the first decadesof the XX century, mainly teacher-driven learning; informal and self-directed learning, typical of young people whowere born almost 1 century after traditional schools; and distance learning, which is not organized and managed as aschool course, either as a strongly informal and social space where learning is self-organized and directly controlledby the learners. But the real big issue is how to make
transitions
amongst the 3 models smooth. The answer is thedistance course that will be organized in Tenegen! Most of the attempts worldwide to reduce the gap betweenteachers and the net generation focus on the learning needs and attitudes of young students, and tend to trainteachers on the pedagogical models that best suit young students and on the ICT tools used by them.This is an extremely important part of the whole process, and it is one of the main goals of the Tenegen project aswell. However, very few experiences focus on the
learning needs of the teachers
, which are as important as theteaching skills targeted by most of the research projects. How can we support teachers to speak the same
language
 (in Prensky
’s vision) as their students? We
could organize a traditional course, maybe in the school lab; or we couldinvite teachers to join a social network, and try to stimulate learning through dialogue and personal interests. Boththese methods will encourage learning and produce some knowledge. But do these methods suit learning needs andattitudes of teachers used to teach in a traditional classroom?The solution adopted in Tenegen is to introduce VET teachers and trainers to the new pedagogies and toolsgradually, through a distance course based on Moodle, where they can still find their cultural and social references(teachers, educational resources, learning objectives to achieve, learning outcomes to produce, and so on), and atthe same time to make them to experience the new pedagogical models and to use the new ICT tools. In such away, transitions between the different pedagogical models will be smooth enough to allow teachers to migrate
towards the European environment of ‘connectivism’ foreseen in Tenegen.
News
Volume 15 of the online journal “eLearning Papers” consists in a special issuetitled “
The New Learning Generation”,
which includes several articlesdealing with the impact of Web 2.0 on Education. In one of the papers, IngoBlees and Marc Rittberger (from the German Institute of InternationalEducational Research) provide a theoretical overview of the concepts of eLearning 2.0, Personal LearningEnvironments, Network Learning and Connectivism. The paper strongly reflects the ideas behind the conception of the Tenegen project. The paper, title
d “Web 2.0 Learning Environment: Concept, Implementation, Evaluation”, is
available in the elearningeuropa.info portal, at the following address:http://www.elearningpapers.eu/index.php?page=doc&doc_id=14399&doclng=6
 
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Last June, Italian students at their final year of high school were asked to write anessay concerning Social Networks, Internet and New Media, based on someexcerpts from different authors, including Castells and De Kerckhove, gurus of issues related to social networking and digital natives. This topic was elaboratedby the experts of the Italian Ministry for Education, and received a very positivefeedback by the students. However, this raised an interesting debate in Italy,around the question if Italian teachers, and in general teachers in the traditionalschools worldwide, can properly evaluate and assess the thoughts expressed bythe students. Tenegen is trying to give an answer....or maybe it already has theanswer!
Activities
The Tenegen consortium is quickly working towards the objectives of the project.One of the most important products of the project is the
survey to obtain an orientation about the teachers’ 
perspective regarding the changing digital word. The survey, in English, Hungarian, Turkish, German and Italian, canbe accessed athttp://survey.prompt.huFirst analysis of the results from the Hungarian sample confirms theassumptions behind the Tenegen project.Further important results have been produced specifically to the preparation of the distance course for VET teachersand trainers that will be organized in the next months; in particular:-
 
the Tenegen’s Pedagogical and networking Model (TP), containing the basic concepts for t
he curriculumdevelopment, the T
enegen’s Compete
ncy Framework (TCF) and the description of the dependencies amongthe learning objectives, learning outcomes and assignments.-
 
The Tenegen technical Handbook
–
Syllabus (THS), containing the syllabus for the five modules which willbe offered to the VET teachers and trainers. The modules are: E-learning concepts, Educational ICT tools,Net-pedagogy, E-learning event in Moodle, Open Source Educational Repositories
Events
The 2nd Tenegen meeting was held in Palermo (Italy), on 2-3July 2009. The meeting was organized by the Institute forEducational Technologies of the Italian National ResearchCouncil, and was attended by representatives from thecoordinating partner Prompt-G (Hu), and from the followingpartners: Information Society Education and Research GroupUniversity of West Hungary (HU), CAPDM Ltd. (UK), DEKRAAkademie GmbH (DE), Balýkesir University (TR), Öveges József (HU).At the meeting, the coordinator summarized the main resultsachieved during the first period of the project (October 2008
–
 June 2009), thus providing partners with a clear understanding of the state of the art of the project. Following, the participants had the opportunity to discuss about the next activitiesfor the project; some debates raised during the 2-day work because of different perspectives on specific aspects of 
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