Teaching Cultural Heritage with Digital Technologies Erasmus Project

Project Title

Teaching Cultural Heritage with Digital Technologies

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

This project is about teaching cultural heritage with the help of digital technology. We are five partners coming from Sweden, Croatia, Poland, Portugal and Spain. Each partner teaches cultural heritage in a different way. Through this project we are going to work together, share and transfer best practices. Moreover, we intend to test, develop and implement new technology-based educational methods, applications and tools. Our products will be an online book with a collection of learning scanarios and lesson plans created throughout the project and a TwinSpace site with the uploaded educational materials developed throughout the project.

Participants in this project are teachers, students, parents and local stakeholders. However, the main focus is on the teachers and students. They are directly involved in the project and they attend project meetings. Participating teachers come from different subject areas: English, History, Geography, Music, Art and Social Science. The students between 12 and 18 will participate in the TwinSpace project. There will be six students in each mobility and they will be between 13 and 16. Two teachers will accompany each group of students during mobilities.

The aims of the project are to explore, develop, introduce and share technology-based educational methods, tools and applications using cultural heritage as the topic. Teachers and students will use English to create material, present it and discuss thus improving linguistic competences. They will improve their knowledge of cultural heritage by learning on-site and through authentic learning. Using ICT to create material, participants will improve their digital skills. They will be involved in creating and updating of TwinSpace project where they will upload educational material. The project will be interdisciplinary involving teachers of different subjects.

By researching and working in teams, students will improve 21st century skills, boost creativity, intrinsic motivation and engagement for their own learning process. They will become independent, autonomous and take control of own learning process. They will develop respect for own culture and empathy for other cultures. The students will have opportunity to improve their digital competences, meet in person their peers from other countries. They will discuss the project topics, their experiences, expectations and impressions. They will improve their linguistic competence and public speaking skills by speaking English, creating and delivering presentations that they created to the international group. They will be able to learn on-site. They will attend group discussions and acquire better understanding of own and partners’ cultural heritage and its importance.

There will be five project meetings during the two-year period. Each meeting will give teachers opportunity to work together, share, transfer best practices and learn from each other. They will observe other teachers in their work, they will (co)teach lessons in the international environment and have group discussions. They will reflect on their own teaching practice and eventually improve it. They will create learning scenarios that will be collected into an eBook to be used in the future. They will master innovative educational tools and applications, raise awarenes of the importance of cultural heritage and the importance of preserving it for future generations. In addition, they will improve linguistic, intercultural and civic competences as well as their 21st century skills. After the project, they will be equipped with innovative, digital-based educational practices (programming, coding, 3D modelling and animation, AR, using Europeana) and will be able to disseminate results and outcomes to their professional network.

The overall objective of the project is to examine educational value of European cultural heritage giving it the place it deserves in the education. Our aim is to enable students to acquire skills and competences, primarily digital and cultural, that will make them more competitive and successful workforce ready to enter the modern employment market.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 136000 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lerbergsskolan & Country: SE

Project Partners

• IES Francisco de Quevedo
• Agrupamento de Escolas do Cerco
• Osnovna skola don Mihovila Pavlinovica
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 5 im. Janusza Kusocinskiego w Swidniku