Dear all,
Hope you are well, in the roadmap of publications doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a8eOpdMNTXBlxsRbRx2JRbQKVLNU0Yj1PxRFO4x… I expressed interest in writing a paper about:
“What is the impact of engaging with design thinking on students' critical thinking, reflection, and empathy?”
I’m thinking of collating survey data from across partners and conduct a statistical analysis of pre/post responses considering for contextual factors such as country, school type, student performance, age, gender. This will address some of the criticism we received from mis4TEL reviewers last year regarding the paper we published and which we addressed by adding the below:
“In addition, we aim to address two limitations of this study: a) analyse data considering for the sample’s heterogeneity e.g, different ages,
backgrounds, school type, locations, enabling comparisons between e.g., different types of schools, and an understanding of the conditions under which the proposed intervention may work (or not) well”
Would you be interested in contributing? Pls let me know and I can draft a plan with activities and meetings to take this forward.
Best,
Thea
Hello everyone,
As discussed during our meeting, you can add your input here regarding
teachers' involvement and DT plans implementation:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-fy0pz-l-Ha9W180VJqDpcmH3WfwV2lMGZd0VgE…
I’ve left last year’s texts in gray in the document to guide you on the
kind of information we are asking for.
Thank you all in advance.
Have a lovely weekend.
Christina
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Christina Gkreka (PhD)
Educational Technology Lab (ETL)
Department of Educational Studies
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Hello Helena,
Thank you for noticing us.
I am forwarding the message to @all, so that whoever can do something
looks into it.
Christina
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Θέμα: ExtenDT2 Platform not responding 21.525
Από: "Helena Ledermann"
<helena.ledermann(a)learnovatecentre.org>
Ημερομηνία: Τετ, Μάιος 21, 2025 16:17
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"Christina Gkreka" <xristgreka(a)eds.uoa.gr>
"Helen O'Kelly" <HOKelly(a)stratfordcollege.ie>
"Jake Byrne" <byrnej40(a)tcd.ie>
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Dear ExtenDT2 Team,
The Irish team are currently running two classes of interventions but we
cannot access the platform- www.extendt2.com. We have tried this on Wifi,
LAN, on personal mobile devices to no avail.
This means for one group they cannot access to publish and present and for
the other group, they will not be able to complete the Respond and Deliver
phase.
We have another intervention planned for tomorrow.
We will continue to try while students present without access to the
platform.
We wanted to alert you to this in realtime so you are aware.
Kind regards,
Helena and Helen (Irish teacher)
*Helena Ledermann*
K12 Pedagogy Researcher
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Christina Gkreka (PhD)
Educational Technology Lab (ETL)
Department of Educational Studies
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Hello everyone,
As we begin preparing the deliverable related to the activity plans, I
would kindly ask you to reach out to the teachers you collaborated with to
confirm their consent for us to publish their plans. Additionally, please
check whether they would like their names to be included.
Once you have their responses, please fill in the column E accordingly:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TqFqZDyNDFuSfswzSjWs-N09bLEkYMytZ8h…
Thank you,
Best regards,
Christina
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Christina Gkreka (PhD)
Educational Technology Lab (ETL)
Department of Educational Studies
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Dear all,
As we are finalising the Framework and Guidelines, we would like to invite you to share your reflections and inputs based on your Year 3 activities.
You can use this one-page template<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mg-IONcAMWvbbKTV75xQI8Vl5sGxBJqA/edit?u…> provided in our shared folder to guide your input. We kindly ask each partner to send your feedback by the end of May (M33) so your inputs can be incorporated into our deliverables (Due M35) .
You can either upload it to this folder<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hTjGYamOTwaAV5WLhM-hWh03FFTWEyyf?us…> or send directly to Isabella or Boban who will be coordinating the finalisation of the Framework and Guidelines.
As a personal note, I also wanted to let you know that I will be leaving my position at the end of April. It has been a real pleasure working with all of you over the past years. I’m proud of what we have achieved together and excited to see the successful conclusion of the project. From May onwards, I will be joining the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and I hope our paths come across again in the future.
Thank you again for your collaboration and inspiring discussions!
All the best,
Feiran Zhang
Postdoctoral fellow
Department of Computer Science,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Dear All
I am pleased to inform you that the amendment has been approved by the EC.
The signed amendment letter is attached to this email together with all relevant documents including the Grant Agreement and revised Technical Annex 1.
You can also download the documents from:
Funding and Tenders Portal<https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/myare…>: My projects <Exten.D.T.2.> <Manage Project> < Document Library> <March 2025> < Amendment>
For information:
* The main change is the no-cost three-month extension period to 30th November 2025. This affects some work and deliverables.
* The EC informed that no internal budget changes between partners needed to be in the amendment as these can all be explained as deviations in the P2/final reporting.
Please inform your financial and administration staff if they are not included in this email.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Best regards
Shamim
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Project Manager | Exten.(D.T.)2 Project
Linnæus University
Office of External Relations
SE-351 95 Växjö | Sweden
M: +46 (0)705 898396 | lnu.se<https://lnu.se/en/>
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Dear all,
It was lovely to see many of you at our project meeting last week. Thank you for the engaging discussions and insights.
As a follow-up, I’d like to kindly ask you to share any photos you may have taken during the dissemination activities related to the framework. We’re hoping to gather visual documentation, and your contributions would be much appreciated. You can upload them in our shared folder here<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hxjHs4pQklZFdvAE8ID6b-CDhauF5JgY?us…>.
For those who are planning upcoming dissemination activities related to the framework, just a quick reminder that all the dissemination materials (incl. a video, slides, and instructions) we had prepared earlier can be accessed here<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13B6v1SfQ8ac3oZCo5deQgZV9yJDNb9gX?us…>.
Additionally, building on Chronis’s helpful suggestion during the meeting, it would be great if you could also share a brief summary of the stakeholders involved in your dissemination efforts, particularly any policymakers or policy-related audiences you’ve engaged with. This information will be valuable as we move forward in reporting and evaluating the outreach and impact of the framework. To make this easier, we’ve created a shared file where each partner can briefly note the key details of their dissemination activities. You can find the file here<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NzgZzBOmHbRAa8Jqy-b0-G7sDQrDpjgw8AZ…>.
Thank you all once again for your cooperation!
Have a nice weekend!
Best regards,
Feiran
Dear All
I hope you have had a good week.
Attached, and linked here are the draft minutes<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jdEJyuR9QqgAo7mXEczTeKz6ciHzgvpI/view?usp=…>. (Special acknowledgement to Christina for helping with notes and further compilation).
Please set aside some time to go through these minutes including the linked presentations and check any Actions applicable to you.
If you have any request for changes, please let me know by 10 April. The minutes will be formally approved at the next OMT meeting on 25 April.
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I also take this opportunity to thank Sofia for all her commitment, diligent work and excellent contributions to our project since its start.
@Sofia: We will miss having you around - but hopefully we will see you again, at some point towards the project end.
In the meantime, I know I speak for all of us wishing you Good Luck with the birth of your baby, and hoping you enjoy to the full, the first few months of motherhood. Take care and enjoy your (“Extended” to family-related) leave.
Best wishes to everyone for the weekend.
Shamim
Dear All
Thank you for a very effective and fruitful meeting last week. It was great to see so many of you and hope you all had safe travels back.
Special thanks again to Chronis, Christina, Marianthi and the rest of the NKUA team for excellent hosting, and all their hospitality.
Attached for administration and financial reference:
* Final agenda
* Signed physical attendance lists of all three meeting days
They can also be downloaded from our Google Drive Folder here<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1StXyuogeUwsp_9Dcth9CNLJzP1Vut_Wv?us…>.
You can also see here a couple of photos from the dinner last Thursday<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JqaIkwWJ2vMeqfUbUfwF3UJamc0jACNf?us…>.
Feel free to add your own photos in this folder<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VRSlkyrn-XYUkgIvuxZUfrnTfvt1KvSD?us…>.
The minutes will be shared in due course.
Best regards
Shamim
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Shamim Patel (ACA)
Project Manager | Exten.(D.T.)2 Project
Linnæus University
Office of External Relations
SE-351 95 Växjö | Sweden
M: +46 (0)705 898396 | lnu.se<https://lnu.se/en/>
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For info: The ppt that Chronis was referring to in our project meeting this morning.
On 2022-10-06, 09:38, "Chronis Kynigos" <kynigos(a)eds.uoa.gr <mailto:kynigos@eds.uoa.gr>> wrote:
Dear all,
here's a ppt I drafted based on a rigorous review done by our
consultant, Res. Dir. A. Verevi concerning the critical reflections of
employing DT in schools so far (i.e. without digital technologies)
if u agree we could discuss it as part (a slot) of the workshop or even
in a special meeting or both
in it you will find links to videos concerning and showcasing DT in
schools (which can be used in the workshop addressing teachers), the
list of references from which the review was drawn and a last slide with
some bullets pointing to ways in which we can use this info to show why
the extendt2 'solution' can address the criticisms and go far beyond the
state of the art for DT in schools
there's 3 layers, the first slide (n.2) is the theme titles, then
another layer (nos. 3-6) with one page for each theme and then
analytical slides with the points in each theme
of course, the extendt2 'solution' is something to be built and refined
by all so consider this as a clunky start if u like
we can undertake to write up an academic version of this review and
include it in a respective deliverable but this will take some time as u
can imagine
so - thanks to Alkistis
best regards
c
btw - Alkisti's expertise is educational sociology
ps - maybe we should do the same for digital media in education, i.e. a
critical review and show how the extendt2 solution addresses some of
those problems? just a thought. this would mean that extendt2 addresses
the problems of each of the DTs individually by means of bringing them
together in a unique form of integration to form dt2
