Conference Presentations by Ioanna Tyrou
AIUCD 2025- XIV Convegno dell'Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale, 2025
1ο ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΟ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ ΣΤΟΝ 21ο ΑΙΩΝΑ Σύγχρονες προκλήσεις και προβληματισμοί ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΙΩΑΝΝΙΝΩΝ, 2022
In our foreign language education, we want to involve students' personal experiences and feelings, to stimulate the imagination, to mobilize the creative mood and authenticity in the written production. A dynamic pedagogical intervention can be accomplished by integrating Creative Writing and Multimodality. Today, Creative Writing, a method of original writing, can be used either to master and turn our thoughts into writing, or to come in contact with alternative ways of writing in a foreign language. Multimodality, as an innovative method in the foreign language, offers new ways of reading and writing, necessary supplies to modern requirements. Students are led to new choices, with a creative disposition, strong motivation and active participation. It is important to release the thinking of our students, their creative mood and to follow their own personal paths of writing and expression in the context of the foreign language classroom.
The New Technologies are capable of motivating the multilingual and multicultural meeting point and the contact for autonomy and flexibility, but also for creativity and a dynamic intervention in the educational process, especially in the teaching of foreign languages. The wikis environments can set up online collaborative learning communities, which offer opportunities for team writing, increased participation and motivation for learning, skills of cooperation and a high degree of interaction of students with each other and the teacher. Wiki’s learning activities can ensure continuity of learning process and the learners’ writing skills can acquire meaningful contexts and authentic purposes for writing [5], [6], [3], [1], [4]. The research presented was conducted on first-year students of the Department of Italian Language and Literature of the University of Athens who learn foreign language and its culture through online activities in wikis environments, as an alternative learning environment through cooperation and active participation of students. The presentation focuses on the statistical results of an initial and a final questionnaire with the statistical tool of SPSS for our students' perceptions of alternative foreign language learning environments. In particular the results focus on the positive impact of the emerging technologies, Web 2.0 and wikis on their language teaching environments and its culture. Our original research questions confirmed that the more the students use the Internet for educational purposes, the more they can increase their knowledge of the foreign language and its culture. It is also statistically documented that there is a positive relationship between teamwork and achievement of the educational goals, by fostering positive conditions for cultivating creativity, collaborative written expression and the cultural contact.
Evaluating L2 creative writing in language classrooms is not only debated but it is also an essential part of language teaching. The aim of our research is to create a quantitative model in order to evaluate L2 creative writing in a systematic way. For this reason, we compiled a corpus based on short texts written by undergraduate Greek students learning Italian as L2. The corpus collection took place at the Department of Italian Language and Literature at the University of Athens.
The same group of these undergraduate students that wrote these essays was "transformed" to judges-raters in order to peer-evaluate the essays produced during this research. Their task was to evaluate the essays using an analytic rubric (seven criteria in the scale from 1 to 4), that captures a broad range of creative writing evaluation criteria. More specifically, the criteria used are: a) quantity of ideas, b) types of ideas, c) rarity of ideas, d) image, e) voice f) characterization, g) narration. (Mozaffari, 2013; Vaezi & Rezaei, 2019). We then calculated the median of the assessment scores for each one of the seven assessment sub-categories in order to have a measure of the central tendency of the evaluators’ scores. We also processed all essays using the QUITA tool (Kubát, Matlach, Čech, 2014) for measuring a broad number of vocabulary differentiation indices and creative a broad quantitative vocabulary profile for each text. In the last step of the experimental procedure we fitted 8 different linear regression models, each for a different assessment criterion and one for the median of the total scores in the evaluation task. The models were finally evaluated using their R2 values using them as an indication of their prediction efficiency using as predictor variables the vocabulary differentiation indices calculated for each document.
The results provide new evidence that creative writing can be systematically evaluated using quantitative vocabulary indices. Most linear regression models exhibited excellent fit with specific models approaching R2 scores near 1.
The results confirm our initial hypothesis that creative writing can be fairly successfully evaluated using quantitative text profiles. Moreover, our research results can be further exploited in the development of automatic essay scoring systems and automated essay content analysis.
Ninth Edition of the International Conference New Perspectives in Science Education , 2020
"Αξιοποίηση των Τεχνολογιών της Πληροφορίας και της Επικοινωνίας στη Διδακτική Πράξη" 6ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο των Εκπαιδευτικών για τις ΤΠΕ_Σύρος, 2011
Η επιλογή του θέματος στηρίχτηκε στην υπόθεση ότι η Ιταλική γλώσσα και ο πολιτισμός της μπορούν να διδαχθούν αποτελεσματικά με τη χρήση των Νέων Τεχνολογιών και συγκεκριμένα των περιβαλλόντων wikis και ότι μέσα από αυτά τα περιβάλλοντα μπορούν να ενισχύσουν την εξοικείωση των σπουδαστών με το πολιτιστικό υλικό και ταυτόχρονα να συνδέσουν σε αυτό τη γλωσσική εκμάθηση.
ICERI2011_International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation_Madrid,Spain, 2011
Innovation In Language Learning_International Conference_Florence, 2018
International Conference "The Future of Education"_PIXEL_Florence, 2012
Internet offers technologies and means for creating an efficient and collaborative learning environment for on-line lessons. Second language acquisition research has shown that collaboration facilitates language acquisition and related cognitive development. In addition, it changes the structure of communication and social relationships developed in the classroom framework. Moreover, it allows authentic experience in learning environments, and development of students' responsibility for their own learning. Furthermore, we have noticed a positive effect in writing (advanced complexity in sentence structure) and an encouragement for enhanced production and effective linguistic feedback via collaboration writing.
Web 2.0 applications have the dynamic to set up on-line collaborative learning communities. On the other hand, the wikis environments- the on-line cooperative implements of writing- can promise increased on-line learning, by involving the trainees in a co-creator role with the content and the structure of various lessons.
Our pilot research was conducted on first-year Greek students, via web chosen activities. These were based on the learning theories of constructivism, creative writing and multiple intelligence. Our preliminary results of the academic year 2011-2012 support fully the usefulness of the on-line collaborative environments in the courses of the foreign language and culture learning. Furthermore, these results will be evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively in regard to similar research, which was curried out in the academic year 2010-2011 at the same institution.
"Νέος Παιδαγωγός" Η Εκπαίδευση στην Εποχή των ΤΠΕ_Ίδρυμα Ευγενίδου_Αθήνα, 2016
Η μουσειακή εκπαίδευση δίνει την ευκαιρία να ενεργοποιηθούν οι αισθήσεις και να επιτευχθεί η γνωστική, η συναισθηματική και η κοινωνική ανάπτυξη των προσώπων, μια πολυαισθητηριακή εμπειρία που διεγείρει το πάθος για ανακάλυψη, αναπόληση, πολλαπλή γνώση και ελεύθερη έκφραση, που διαρκεί δια βίου.
Τα κοινωνικά δίκτυα και τα wikis μπορούν να οικοδομήσουν διαδικτυακές συνεργατικές κοινότητες μάθησης για δυναμικές παρεμβάσεις και συνεισφορές, συν-δημιουργία γνώσης και διακίνησης εκπαιδευτικού υλικού.
Σε αυτό το πλαίσιο πραγματοποιήθηκε έρευνα στο τμήμα της Ιταλικής Γλώσσας και Φιλολογίας του ΕΚΠΑ με στόχο τη γλωσσική και πολιτιστική εκπαίδευση των φοιτητών μέσα από εναλλακτικά πολιτιστικά περιβάλλοντα, όπως εκείνα των εικονικών μουσείων, αλλά και τη δυναμική των διαδικτυακών δραστηριοτήτων σε μαθήματα πολιτισμού.
"Νέος Παιδαγωγός"_Ίδρυμα Ευγενίδου_Αθήνα, 2017
Talks by Ioanna Tyrou
Books by Ioanna Tyrou
Multilingualism, Variation, Spaces of Literacy, 2024
Επιστημονική επετηρίς της Φιλοσοφικής Σχόλης του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών (τόμος ΜΖ' 2022-2023), 2023
In book: ΕΠΙΜΟΡΦΩΣΗ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΤΙΚΩΝ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΞΙΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΦΑΡΜΟΓΗ ΤΩΝ ΨΗΦΙΑΚΩΝ ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΩΝ ΣΤΗ ΔΙΔΑΚΤΙΚΗ ΠΡΑΞΗ (ΕΠΙΜΟΡΦΩΣΗ Β’ ΕΠΙΠΕΔΟΥ ΤΠΕ). Β' ΤΟΜΟΣ, 2019
In book: ΕΠΙΜΟΡΦΩΣΗ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΤΙΚΩΝ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΞΙΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΦΑΡΜΟΓΗ ΤΩΝ ΨΗΦΙΑΚΩΝ ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΩΝ ΣΤΗ ΔΙΔΑΚΤΙΚΗ ΠΡΑΞΗ (ΕΠΙΜΟΡΦΩΣΗ Β’ ΕΠΙΠΕΔΟΥ ΤΠΕ). Α' ΤΟΜΟΣ, 2019
In book: ΕΠΙΜΟΡΦΩΣΗ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΤΙΚΩΝ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΞΙΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΦΑΡΜΟΓΗ ΤΩΝ ΨΗΦΙΑΚΩΝ ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΩΝ ΣΤΗ ΔΙΔΑΚΤΙΚΗ ΠΡΑΞΗ (ΕΠΙΜΟΡΦΩΣΗ Β’ ΕΠΙΠΕΔΟΥ ΤΠΕ). Β' ΤΟΜΟΣ, 2018
Εκπαίδευση Επιμορφωτών Β' επιπέδου Τ.Π.Ε.' Β'ΤΟΜΟΣ Συστάδα: Ξένες Γλώσσες ΕΠΙΜΟΡΦΩΤΙΚΟ ΥΛΙΚΟ, 2019
