New Era Education of Digital Skills Erasmus Project

Project Title

New Era Education of Digital Skills

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

New Era Education of Digital Skills is a project by six European schools from Italy, Romania, Poland, Finland, Portugal and Spain. Its main motivation is to find innovative methods to adapt to challenges that the new digital era of education provides by giving schools a chance to use each one’s specific knowledge and competences to support students’ growth to become European citizens in a globalizing world. We want our schools to be an innovative space where we improve approaches and teaching methods in key competences education by sharing good practices. This project aims at improving 3 categories of the 21st century skills: Lifelong Learning skills – providing students with skills (Critical thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, Communication) required for a brighter future in the long run; Literacy skills – focusing on how students use technology, media and be aware of trustworthy information; Life skills – developing personal and professional qualities, with the implementation of activities which enhance students’ flexibility to adapt to different teaching-learning environments, develop leadership, initiative, social and productivity skills. We are creating products with digital tools: introduce each school to digital tools shared on Twinspace; create the blog of the project to share stories and pictures; create a video-tutorial about Internet rules; compose traditional songs collected in a shareable folder; create “Pu-pills stories”;research Eco-friendly routes/places to make a European Eco-brochure; collect images for a seasons’ calendar; collection of games, collection of the best teaching practices; creating an Art Padlet using modern technology while reminding our roots and historical background, strengthening key competences, especially linguistic, digital and social ones.The activities can be summed under the four main goals of the project: innovative pedagogical and didactic solutions for everyday use, transversal competence, 21st century skills and cultural knowledge.The preparation for and results of the meetings will give motivation and enthusiasm to work on authentic tasks and an opportunity for long-term work, especially for students with few opportunities. Students are between 10-15 years and will be chosen according to a set of rules, like communication skills, be engaged in learning and cooperating with others.The methodology approach aims at a constant comparison between traditional teaching practices and present ones (Flipped classroom, Peer-to-peer education, Cooperative learning). We’ve come to the awareness that only fair and open-minded debates among different school systems can lead to flexible solutions adaptable to a constantly changing job market. We aim to find innovative methods for the challenges in the new era of education; reduce the gap between traditional and modern teaching approaches; Increase open-mindedness, self-assessment and criticism through comparison; Improve language and social skills in an authentic learning-set; provide students and teachers motivation and enthusiasm to work on authentic tasks and offer a chance for long-term work, especially to students with fewer economic, social and cultural opportunities. A Commission formed by the schools’ coordinators will ensure a continuous monitoring, assessment and quality control of activities; three evaluation sessions will be planned to monitor if we are getting the expected targets, or modify the initial plan. We expect an impact on students, teachers, parents and stakeholders at local, regional, national and transnational level, aiming at higher education level based on cooperation and training experiences, by developing personal communicative and digital skills, cultural awareness through comparison with other cultural backgrounds, English speakers, and positive attitude towards teamwork, flexibility and time management. Our students’ improvement will be a stimulus, both in the short and long term, according to lifelong education. We believe that the European spirit generated by our project will support all the involved members overcoming the challenges that 2020 is offering.A dissemination plan has been designed so all activities can have visibility, regarding the implementation of new digital education and good practices inside and outside the partnership. We’ll allow all interested people,public institutions and political bodies to use our project’s results and ideas, promoting our project impact and justifying the European added value. Activities and outputs will multiply through communication at local press, stakeholders and families.Numerous dissemination events will be planned and advertised, especially Erasmus Days and Open Days, to have a chance both to show the obtained results and to plan in advance the fall-out they may have about upcoming events. Our project will be a joint learning journey, establishing new opportunities in the field of education and international cooperation in several contexts.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197947 Eur

Project Coordinator

Agrupamento de Escolas de Loureiro & Country: PT

Project Partners

• Scoala Gimnaziala nr. 1
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 1
• Lempoisten koulu
• IC CAVALLERMAGGIORE
• ESCOLA RIU SEGRE