{"CACHEDAT":"2026-11-11 20:10:23","HOWSUBJECTMAP":{},"SLUG":"virtual-modules-i6hm6rDzpa","MARKDOWN":"# Virtual Kick-Off\n\nThe virtual kick-off prepares participants for the preparatory phase.\n\n* **Getting to know each other**: Participants either put themselves on a virtual map (→ Living Map) and introduce themselves in their first language (→ Hello, Hola, Hallo), or they respond to statements about their teaching by switching their cameras on or off (→ Mirror, Mirror on the Media Wall). \\nThey then meet many colleagues in five short rounds in random breakout rooms of two or three, similar to speed-dating (→ SSI Speed-Dating): in each room, they find two things they have in common and one difference.\n* **The course**: The trainers present the aims, the phases, and the learning journey of the on-site week. Participants gain access to the course platform.\n* **Socio-scientific issues**: A short input introduces socio-scientific issues and the SSI themes and topics collected in the Wiki, so that participants can look for suitable topics and materials in their own teaching.\n* **Meta-scientific literacies**: A second input shows what meta-scientific literacies are about: the competences learners need to find, evaluate, and use socio-scientific information, and why fostering them calls for collaboration across subjects.\n* **Focus of the BIT variant**: Activities from the focus module introduce the particular focus of the BIT variant.\n* **Outlook**: The session closes with an outlook on the upcoming course and participants receive the tasks for the preparatory phase (→ Structure & Schedule).\n\n# Virtual Follow-Up\n\nThe virtual follow-up brings the whole group together again.\n\n* **Recap**: The trainers briefly recap the on-site week.\n* **Implementation experience**: On a digital board with three columns (→ EasyRetro), participants share\n  * take-aways from teaching their SciLMi lessons in real school contexts, \n  * challenges that make it hard to implement SciLMi at school, and\n  * the impact of the training on their thinking and practice.\n* **Cross-subject collaboration**: A second board revisits cross-subject collaboration after the return to school:\n  * what has helped and\n  * what has hindered collaboration with colleagues, and\n  * one realistic step their school could take to make cross-subject coordination more feasible.\n* **Focus of the BIT variant**: Activities from the focus module revisit the particular focus of the BIT variant.\n* **SciLMi resources**: Participants give feedback on how the SciLMi resources could better support their teaching.\n* **Outlook**: The session closes with an outlook on upcoming opportunities.\n\n\n:::tip\nActivities from the other modules can be integrated into the virtual sessions. Many of them include tips for virtual settings.\n\n:::","RENDERMODE":"markdown","HTML":"<style>.scilmi-outline-content h1,.scilmi-outline-content h2{font-weight:700}.scilmi-outline-content .badge-scilmi{background:#0d6efd;color:#fff;padding:2px 8px;border-radius:99px;}</style><h1>Virtual Kick-Off</h1>\n<p>The virtual kick-off prepares participants for the preparatory phase.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Getting to know each other</strong>: Participants either put themselves on a virtual map (→ Living Map) and introduce themselves in their first language (→ Hello, Hola, Hallo), or they respond to statements about their teaching by switching their cameras on or off (→ Mirror, Mirror on the Media Wall). <br>They then meet many colleagues in five short rounds in random breakout rooms of two or three, similar to speed-dating (→ SSI Speed-Dating): in each room, they find two things they have in common and one difference.\n</li>\n<li><strong>The course</strong>: The trainers present the aims, the phases, and the learning journey of the on-site week. Participants gain access to the course platform.\n</li>\n<li><strong>Socio-scientific issues</strong>: A short input introduces socio-scientific issues and the SSI themes and topics collected in the Wiki, so that participants can look for suitable topics and materials in their own teaching.\n</li>\n<li><strong>Meta-scientific literacies</strong>: A second input shows what meta-scientific literacies are about: the competences learners need to find, evaluate, and use socio-scientific information, and why fostering them calls for collaboration across subjects.\n</li>\n<li><strong>Focus of the BIT variant</strong>: Activities from the focus module introduce the particular focus of the BIT variant.\n</li>\n<li><strong>Outlook</strong>: The session closes with an outlook on the upcoming course and participants receive the tasks for the preparatory phase (→ Structure &amp; Schedule).\n</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Virtual Follow-Up</h1>\n<p>The virtual follow-up brings the whole group together again.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Recap</strong>: The trainers briefly recap the on-site week.\n</li>\n<li><strong>Implementation experience</strong>: On a digital board with three columns (→ EasyRetro), participants share\n<ul>\n<li>take-aways from teaching their SciLMi lessons in real school contexts,\n</li>\n<li>challenges that make it hard to implement SciLMi at school, and\n</li>\n<li>the impact of the training on their thinking and practice.\n</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><strong>Cross-subject collaboration</strong>: A second board revisits cross-subject collaboration after the return to school:\n<ul>\n<li>what has helped and\n</li>\n<li>what has hindered collaboration with colleagues, and\n</li>\n<li>one realistic step their school could take to make cross-subject coordination more feasible.\n</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><strong>Focus of the BIT variant</strong>: Activities from the focus module revisit the particular focus of the BIT variant.\n</li>\n<li><strong>SciLMi resources</strong>: Participants give feedback on how the SciLMi resources could better support their teaching.\n</li>\n<li><strong>Outlook</strong>: The session closes with an outlook on upcoming opportunities.\n</li>\n</ul>\n<div class=\"scilmi-callout scilmi-callout-tip\">\n<div class=\"scilmi-callout-row\" aria-label=\"Tip\">\n<span class=\"scilmi-callout-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg fill=\"currentColor\" width=\"24px\" height=\"24px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><path d=\"M12,16.1500001 L8.79729751,17.8337604 L8.79729751,17.8337604 C8.30845292,18.0907612 7.70382577,17.9028147 7.44682496,17.4139701 C7.34448589,17.2193097 7.30917121,16.9963416 7.34634806,16.779584 L7.95800981,13.2133223 L5.36696906,10.6876818 L5.36696906,10.6876818 C4.97148548,10.3021806 4.96339318,9.66906733 5.34889439,9.27358375 C5.50240299,9.11610012 5.70354541,9.01361294 5.92118244,8.98198843 L9.50191268,8.46167787 L11.1032639,5.21698585 L11.1032639,5.21698585 C11.3476862,4.72173219 11.9473121,4.51839319 12.4425657,4.76281548 C12.6397783,4.86014572 12.7994058,5.01977324 12.8967361,5.21698585 L14.4980873,8.46167787 L18.0788176,8.98198843 L18.0788176,8.98198843 C18.6253624,9.06140605 19.0040439,9.5688489 18.9246263,10.1153938 C18.8930018,10.3330308 18.7905146,10.5341732 18.6330309,10.6876818 L16.0419902,13.2133223 L16.6536519,16.779584 L16.6536519,16.779584 C16.747013,17.3239204 16.3814251,17.8408763 15.8370887,17.9342373 C15.620331,17.9714142 15.397363,17.9360995 15.2027025,17.8337604 L12,16.1500001 Z\"></path></svg></span>\n<div class=\"scilmi-callout-body\"><p>Activities from the other modules can be integrated into the virtual sessions. Many of them include tips for virtual settings.</p></div>\n</div>\n</div>","UPDATEDAT":"2026-11-04T14:15:10.234Z","ID":"6781eca8-e119-4223-af9c-e517bb159d93","TITLE":"Virtual Modules"}