LEAVE THE MOBILE AND MOVE ON Erasmus Project

Project Title

LEAVE THE MOBILE AND MOVE ON

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT
The name of our project is Leave the Mobile and Move on. The purpose is to deal with cyberbullying and relationships among students. We consider that it is paramount to focus on these topics because of the problems found nowadays. In fact, the four schools of the project find it necessary to start a line of work to establish common ways to diminish this problem.The counsellors of the schools are constantly advising tutors, parents, students and teachers about the best ways to eliminate bullying. Students are offered videos, surveys, activities and experiences to eradicate it.
In the coordinating school , we have had meetings with all the educative community to discuss about this topic. The counsellor has also taken part in different courses to develop measures to deal with this problem through COMRED, a programme of prevention of bullying and cyberbullying to be implemented in public schools in Andalusia. The experiences gathered in this programme will be used as our starting point for the project.
Sadly, despite the efforts, bullying has evolved in the same way that technologies have developed. Today, a new way of disrespect and intolerance has appeared in our lives. It is a fact that social networks are employed every day and due to their quick appearance and constant changes sometimes they can sound Greek to most people. Many students feel bullied in the net and more often than not, they suffer from isolation and they are the victims of something which has to be avoided. We have to show our students that not reporting these cases, one turns to be a witness of a situation that all have to work to make it disappear.
The choice of our topic arises from a need detected in our school. With this, we have looked for schools who have already started to work with cyberbullying and social media, such as the Danish school, and others who are interested in the topic because of the need to introduce them in the curriculum, as it is the case of France and Italy.

-MAIN OBJECTIVES
-To create attitudes of respect and tolerance to other races as a source to avoid cyberbullying.
-To learn from European countries, to value them and break stereotypes.
To learn how to use new technologies and to develop safe systems of communication.
-To learn about teaching stategies and other learning methods and tools used in other countries.
-To improve the linguistic competence of the participants.

-NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS.
Schools: our partners are from France, Denmark and Italy, countries that have been working with inclusion in the last decades. These countries are examples of coexistence of different races and origins, turning them into new melting pots where each person is a part of a whole. With this project, we want to have real models of cohabitation and experiences of living together in a world where barriers have to disappear.
Teachers: the staff participating show a great interest in avoiding bullying and learning about technologies and their safe uses. They have largely worked on the topics of the project. Since the language of the project is English, the participating teachers will be required to have a good command of the language, at least a B2 level.

-ACTIVITIES PLANNED
The activities are programmed following an etwnning agenda with activities connected to six transnational mobilities during two years. In these, we will create videos to show the European identity, design escape rooms and organize literary meetings, sports activities, presentations, roundtable meetings, talks by experts, investigations, pie charts and sketches among others. All the activities are planned with their aims, process and results expected.

-METHODOLOGY
Student’s centered, discovery techniques, cooperative work, assignment of different roles, use of ICTs and learning by doing.

-RESULTS/IMPACT
The project will receive a direct impact on all the participants. With it, tangible and intangible results will be achieved:
Tangible results:
-Videos, pie charts, surveys, questionnaires, and decalogues about the use of technologies
-Presentations, talks, discussions and sketches about how to avoid bullying.
Intangible results:
-Improvement of linguistic competence.
-More inclusive schools
-Use of mobile phones with learning purposes
-Higher implication of families.
-Diminishing bullying rate
-Schools more open to Europe.
All the activities will be broadcast by local media. We will use the resulting videos in the tutorial sessions and in parents meetings organized by the schools for debate and discussions. Decalogues about healthy and positive use of mobile phones and new technologies will be published. Internationalization of the school and later organization of school activities using the topics dealt with. These activities will be organized in different levels depending on the results expected and all the published data of the project will be employed for analysis.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 110902 Eur

Project Coordinator

INSTITUTO DE EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA TORRE OLVIDADA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE “A. FOGAZZARO” DI NOVENTA VICENTINA
• Struer Statsgymnasium
• Lycée Louis Thuillier