intergenerational learning
Participate in this year's edition of generations@school!
After the great success of the 1st edition of generations@school during the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012, we are pleased to announce the launch of this initiative’s 2nd edition!
generations@school competition invites teachers to organise an activity that brings pupils together with seniors from their communities to explore how dialogue between generations can contribute to a better understanding of each other. This encounter can be a debate on issues of concern to both generations or the launch of a joint project in which old and young cooperate on a more regular basis.
In 2012, more than 600 schools around Europe took the European Day of Solidarity between Generations (29 April) as an opportunity to invite older people into their classrooms. This year we suggest celebrating your generations@school activity on or around 29 April, but you can do it at any time before 30 June, the submission deadline for the competition.
Don’t forget to take photos or videos of the event! The materials produced (drawings, questionnaires, albums, etc.) will not only be a way of documenting the intergenerational dialogue, but also a means of sharing information with other European schools on what your class has done to take part in the generations @ school competition.
Imagine the ideal Europe for all generations!
As the European Union has designated 2013 as “European Year of Citizens” this year would be a good opportunity for teachers, pupils and older people to organise on or around the 29 April discussions about Europe, its past, its present and about what old and young can do together for building the Europe of tomorrow. What does it mean to be a European citizen? Which EU rights have we obtained through the process of European integration? How do the European citizens of tomorrow perceive these rights and how do they intend to make use of them? What kind of Europe should we pass on to the next generation?
All information related to this new edition of the generations@school competition, the awards that can be won and resources to help teachers in preparing their generations@school event can be found on this website: www.generationsatschool.eu.
Get ready to participate!
e-Learning y redes sociales en procesos de mentorado para apoyar un envejecimiento activo
El mentorado es un proceso de desarrollo de recursos humanos que se usa a menudo para incorporar, iniciar y orientar a personas para un puesto de trabajo.
La formación en la empresa (on the job) y el recurrir a personas mayores como mentores permiten resolver varias cuestiones a la vez: escasez de personal capacitado, necesidad de contratar y conservar a trabajadores con la preparación adecuada, así como la implicación activa de las personas mayores en la empresa. En este artículo presentamos aspectos del mentorado, en particular la ayuda de las TIC en este proceso, y damos algunos ejemplos.
Generations At School
As part of the European Year 2012, we invite you to dedicate the European Day of Solidarity between Generations 2012 to bringing pupils and older people together to talk about what it means to grow up and get older, and to think about ways that the young and not so young can help each other to make their lives better.
During the week of 29 April, as part of the European Year 2012 generations@school project, every school across Europe is invited to open the doors of its classrooms to older people and to think about what an intergenerational dialogue could bring to education.
The best project from each country will be awarded with a prize.
Check out the competition rules and prizes and submit a photo of your event by 30 June 2012 via the generations@school Panoramio group.
Fot more information visit the generations@school website.
Why an intergenerational project at school?
• Recreating the link between generations makes it possible to promote intergenerational comprehension and respect.
• It can contribute to the development of individual competencies for a more inclusive society.
• Fostering intergenerational dialogue encourages joint collaboration: generations learn from each other.
• Intergenerational exchange significantly fosters solidarity, active citizenship and personal development, and strengthens teaching quality.
For more information about the educational dimension of generations@school and help with setting up your project visit the Resources section on the project home page.
EDEN 2012 Conference: “Open learning generations”. Call for Papers open!
In times of great challenges for Europe, all generations are called to act together, thus also to learn, to produce, share and preserve knowledge. The 2012 European Year of Active Ageing and the Solidarity Between Generations serves as framework for raising awareness, generating innovative approaches and disseminating good practice.
The EDEN Annual Conference will approach the key questions of learning methodology and technology focusing on the “Open learning generations”, the contexts of socially significant target groups: junior and senior e-learners. We will explore their learning cultures, technology use patterns and discuss new approaches in pedagogy and andragogy that respond to them.
Open learning for and amongst diverse generations
Innovative pedagogical models have been significant in empowering learners and their communities as co-producers in networked lifelong learning. Helping to spread educational resources as digitised content which accommodate different learning pathways, widening participation and promoting shared learning experiences between generations contributes to closing the technology gap.
Online and Social
The 2012 Annual Conference will be supported and accompanied intensively by social networking, sharing, online and virtual presence and involvement possibilities.
This will be strengthened by and implemented through the EDEN Members Portal: the NAP area on the web and its services.
Call for Contributions
All interested professionals are invited to take part and discover the conference themes by submitting their experience.
There will be opportunities for submitting and presenting papers, workshops, posters and demonstrations. At the Porto conference, virtual presentations, as a new form will be introduced. The conference allows openness in choosing the topics and in applying interactive formats and ways of presentations.
To learn more about the scope of the event and consult the themes, please visit the respective conference pages.
For details visit the Conference web-site and the Call for Contributions links.
Schedule and Deadlines
Paper Submissions - 10 February, 2012
Registration Open - Mid February
Notification of Authors - 31 March
Abuelos y nietos: poética de una experiencia de aprendizaje intergeneracional
Hoy en día, los estudiantes de más de 55 años tienen que enfrentarse a un panorama totalmente nuevo, donde la mayoría de sus referencias mentales se han modificado, recompuesto o han desaparecido. Al mismo tiempo, las generaciones jóvenes se encuentran con una sociedad voluble, donde parece muy difícil establecer un sentimiento de pertenencia a un contexto particular, algo que tiene consecuencias directas en la memoria histórica y en la construcción de identidad.
Este artículo presenta varias reflexiones sobre los resultados preliminares del proyecto y subraya su contribución a la mejora del proceso de aprendizaje intergeneracional, sobre todo en términos de dimensión política, funciones y metodología. Por último, se proponen algunas recomendaciones, a partir de los resultados anteriores, no sólo para mejorar el proceso de aprendizaje, sino también, y en especial, para facilitar una transferencia del modelo de aprendizaje intergeneracional.
Sociedad envejecida, aprendizaje y TIC
En general, la motivación de la gente mayor por aprender tiene que ver con mejorar su vida diaria, mantenerse activos, compartir sus conocimientos con los demás y contactar con otros alumnos. Las TIC pueden contribuir a proporcionar oportunidades nuevas y flexibles para poner en contacto a las personas mayores entre sí y con generaciones de gente más joven. Para la gente mayor, el aprendizaje normalmente tiene lugar en entornos más informales que formales, y se basa en sus propios intereses y necesidades antes que en requerimientos formales.
Es importante desarrollar cuidadosamente tanto el contenido como las condiciones de las oportunidades de aprendizaje para la gente mayor. Resulta evidente que la gente mayor quiere aprender, pero las oportunidades significativas y reales para ello por el momento son escasas. Hay que prestar más atención a desarrollar oportunidades de aprendizaje relevantes y accesibles y herramientas fáciles de usar adaptadas a la gente mayor. En la sociedad del conocimiento –en que la gente mayor constituye un grupo de alumnos y tutores que interactúan y se integran unos con otros–, el fomento de oportunidades centradas en el alumno y de habilidades personales de aprendizaje se está convirtiendo en parte del aprendizaje a lo largo de toda la vida.
El papel del aprendizaje está cambiando, junto a la disponibilidad de una nueva oleada muy prometedora de aplicaciones de TIC, y surge la necesidad de investigar la manera de fomentar y proporcionar el mejor aprendizaje a una sociedad envejecida.
Este artículo aparece en la publicación de EuroPACE titulada European Networking and Learning for the Future. The EuroPACE approach, por Annemie Boonen y WimVan Petegem (eds.), Garant, Amberes, noviembre de 2007.