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Diversity and Multicultural Heritage in "Folk Costumes Around the Globe" Project at the iEARN Conference
Cornelia Platon
"Alexandru Papiu Ilarian" High School Dej, Romania, iEARN Romania
My name is Cornelia Platon, and I am a teacher of English and educational counselor at “Alexandru Papiu Ilarian” High School in Dej, Romania. I have a master’s degree in Educational Management. I am iEARN coordinator for Romania and I used to be Adobe Youth Voices program manager in Romania for several years. I have been involved...Read Full Bio
Cornelia Platon
My name is Cornelia Platon, and I am a teacher of English and educational counselor at “Alexandru Papiu Ilarian” High School in Dej, Romania. I have a master’s degree in Educational Management. I am iEARN coordinator for Romania and I used to be Adobe Youth Voices program manager in Romania for several years. I have been involved in iEARN, Adobe Youth Voices, ThinkQuest, eTwinning, ASEF, Comenius/Erasmus projects for many years.
I attended many national and international conferences and seminars focused on the use of new technologies to engage youth worldwide in collaborative project-based learning. I have co-facilitated the Teaching of Foreign & Second Languages online iEARN professional development course, focused on equipping educators with the technical, collaborative and organizational skills needed to integrate online collaborative projects into curriculum. I am also an AYV Lead Educator and I co-facilitated the AYV professional development course, focused on training educators in digital media production and storytelling. In 2015 I was selected to receive the Adobe Youth Voices Creative Educator Award.
I have been facilitating the “Folk Costumes Around the Globe” iEARN project since 1997 and it has been a successful project with a large participation from over 60 countries during these years.
Type: Ignite-Style Talk
Location: Room 1305
Date: Friday
Time: 9:00-10:00 AM
This session is associated with a UN SDG!
This session relates to the Folk Costumes Around the Globe iEARN Project!
Session Description
The presentation will showcase the experience of successful collaborative project work developed by students and teachers from over 60 countries in the “Folk Costumes Around the Globe” iEARN project. In the context of globalization the students' awareness of the role of folk costumes in strengthening the national identity and preserving the cultural heritage is extremely important, so the project offers the students and teachers the possibility to research, exchange information and exhibit their national clothes and traditions, enriching their education and better understanding the diversity of the world's cultural heritage, using the power of the new technologies.
What will educators learn and be able to do at the end of the session?
At the end of the session the participants will learn how the new technologies and the information - both written and visual - exchanged during the project work can help them to get deeper into the multicultural heritage of the world.
Session Resources
Diversity and Multicultural Heritage in "Folk Costumes Around the Globe" Project
This is an ignite style talk about the experience of a successful collaborative project work developed by students and teachers in "Folk Costumes Around the Globe" project
Diversity and Multicultural Heritage in Folk Costumes Around the Globe project - The project's website
This is the website of "Folk Costumes Around the Globe" project