[arg_discuss] European Union language ARG education project Secondary schools participation needed

[Kindersite Joel]

ARGuing is a Comenius project funded within the European Union Lifelong 
Learning programme for the promotion of language learning for secondary 
school students (ages 13 to16).



ARGuing is an innovative project that addresses two needs in European 
education in a totally new way:

1.How to bridge the widening technological gap between educators and their 
students.

2. How to motivate students to understand the benefits of learning languages 
at a level that impacts on their existing personal lives.



The project has created a special collaborative, multilingual game, called 
an Alternate Reality Game, that has been piloted in 3 schools across Europe, 
extremely successfully. Language teachers have said, 'The students responded 
extremely positively and have taken a renewed interest in language 
learning'.



We are now looking for further secondary schools that would like to 
participate in the final piloting of the project. Every participating 
teacher and school will receive official certificates of participation from 
the project. You can read much more about the project on our website at: 
http://www.arg-education.eu



Places are very limited for the pilot, but educators and teacher trainers 
can also join the game as Observers. You can reply to this message and we 
will send you further information so you can understand how you can be 
involved.



The project will produce a methodology, teacher guides, case studies and use 
case scenarios so that educators can understand how similar games can be 
used in learning.



Thank you for your interest.



Best regards



Prof. Thomas Connolly

Coordinator ARGuing EU project

University of The West of Scotland

Thomas at arg-education.eu

http://www.arg-education.eu