elearning For Future Film Making Artistically Erasmus Project

Project Title

elearning For Future Film Making Artistically

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

BACKGROUND AND NEEDS
Today’s teenagers are growing up in a rapidly developing media-focused world where digital technology is easily readily available to them. Many produce intuitively digital content for their hobbies using home devices and mobile phones. Teachers harness these skills within their curricula as schools adapt to this new digital world to engage and motivate students.
The sanitary crisis proved the necessity for making videos at students level to enhance distance learning and hybrid classes in schools.
Innovative teachers understand the potential for video assignments to increase students’ motivation for the subjects taught in school and to give differential support to less able students. Moreover, there is a key competence in developing critical thinking analysis within video editing. As teenagers are regularly exposed to media, they must have the skills to analyse the reliability and bias of information quickly.
Film making technologies bring a new motivating way of expression and more particularly to the youth who cannot follow a traditional curriculum. They give space to students who struggle with literacy and written work. Additionally, there are considerable opportunities to support migrant students studying their host country’s national language. Thus, key competences should be improved for all.
OBJECTIVES
The e4FMA project aims at promoting inclusive digital education through filmmaking. The main objectives are to create innovative practices in a digital era by strengthening the profile of teachers. This project aims at providing teachers with life long learning skills to design classes and assignments, including video productions.
A concrete artistic experience of filmmaking will lead students to the creation of 12 digital video tutorials, all with professional and high digital quality. Art and e-learning will be combined for future film making.
A MOOC platform and eTwinning both offering pedagogical paths to various targeted audiences will widely disseminate these 12 video tutorials.
PARTICIPANTS
The coordinator is the schools and social centres AMDB network in France focused in education on students at risk of early school leaving. Among the partners, a filmmakers school in Paris is an NGO for NEET youth. Eight schools from the partnership include comprehensive schools and vocational schools from France; Spain; Hungary; Bulgaria and England. Project partners address a student population whose more than 50% is disadvantaged youth facing vulnerability and at risk of exclusion situations due to socio-economic backgrounds, learning difficulties, ethnic discrimination, migrant background or refugee status.
TARGET GROUPS
– secondary school teachers aiming at innovation in a digital era for their pedagogy,
– students interested in making their videos, especially those from vocational schools focusing on filmmaking technologies,
– students using ICT as receivers in their leisure time only and with fewer digital competences to offer them an engaging way of expression besides writing and oral expression for learning.
ACTIVITIES
1. Three teachers transnational meetings for training and assessing
2. Eight learning and producing meetings for students held in Paris to access professional devices, training with their teachers and finally producing tutorials videos.
3. Collaboration held online before and after the meetings to allow effective implementation of the collaborations during the face-to-face activities.
4. Design of new pedagogical strategies for hybrid teaching and hybrid mobilities in secondary schools
RESULTS
– 12 tutorial videos of duration up to 10 mn, designed by students and produced with professional quality, to teach filmmakers technical competences separately,
– the MOOC platform hosting tutorials and resources as a whole,
– the eTwinning platform used by teachers to share their productions for secondary school education purposes firstly, and as a public website for the project intermediate results secondly
METHODOLOGY
1) According to titles of technological sequences identified throughout the various steps of filmmaking, each partner school has declared initially its needs following three choices :
– co-design the tutorial with professional partner filmmakers,
– experiment with a given drafted tutorial with students to provide feedback from the schools,
– the finished tutorials to be used within the curricula.
2) Collaboration between professional filmmakers and teachers provides participants with training for a new digital engaging pedagogy.
3) Learning and producing meetings are held with transnational teams of students to allow collaboration in English. They are designed to produce 12 video tutorials and a MOOC. Hybrid mobilities will add up more non travelling students with travelling peers
IMPACTS
The free online Mooc platform and the Twinspace open up learning skills to :
– thousands of students, teachers and staff
– potentially many NEET users or others

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 218168 Eur

Project Coordinator

Association Maisons Don Bosco & Country: FR

Project Partners

• SZÁMALK-Szalézi Technikum és Szakgimnázium
• OGEC FRANCOIS D’ESTAING
• Don Bosco Intuition Entertainers Media
• Association de l’Institut Professionnel Lemonnier
• Casa Salesiana de Nuestra Señora del Pilar
• PTG “Tsar Simeon Veliki” Targovishte
• FONDATION DON BOSCO MARSEILLE