Learning Environments 4.0 Erasmus Project

Project Title

Learning Environments 4.0

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Inclusion – equity; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

This project aims at an exchange of best practices between the two partner schools, Martino Martini in Mezzolombardo and IGS in Gottingen, on the basis of the didactic planning of meaningful and inclusive learning environments in the two school realities. AdA (“Innovative Learning Environments”) is an integrated project in Martini’s PTOF, inspired by a visit to exchange ideas and projects between teachers at the partner school in Germany five years ago.
It aims at inclusion, thanks to the focus on active methodologies. Starting from a school project on technologies and their use among young people, the students were stimulated to spontaneous and unstructured reflections, through brainstorming and focus groups, on the use of technology from peers: smartphones and tablets above all. It successively gradually evolved into the creation of a questionnaire to be administered to all classes of first and second grade at the end of the year, passing through a focus on the topic, conducted by the students themselves as peer educators for the classmates and teachers who had enrolled to this specific laboratory during a school assembly in March 2017. In the years 2018/2019 and 2019/2020, Ada’s focus, having taken on board the premises of the previous years, shifted to the creation of a CoP among teachers, led and coordinated by Iprase, Trentino educational research body. The community shared the need to integrate the non-cognitive skills emerging from the project with the skills assessed in curricular teaching. So the basis of this project are also technologies and the integration between formal, non-formal and informal activities in the school syllabus/curriculum.
“Reality tasks” as concrete, real and challenging cultural products, play a relevant role in the present exchange project proposal. The theme to be developed was identified in environmental sustainability, at the center of the previous projects and research in both schools. At Martini, some students participated in COY, the «Conference of Youth» in 2017 and 2018 – in Bonn and Katowice; lastly, Martini participated in January 2020 in the “Agenda 2030” promoted by the Province of Trento to identify a territorial strategy to assess the state of the art of sustainability in Trentino and implement it through “anticipatory” exercises of the future. Mutatis mutandis, similar activities will be carried out in the partner school as the exchange will focus on the presentation of the respective in-depth and reflection works. The teachers will discuss the methodological aspects, mainly collaborative and inclusive, as already mentioned.
Teachers and students will be able to use eTwinning and the GSuite for Education platforms to develop and share ideas and best practices. The teachers involved will be invited to register, if they have not done so already (the community language teachers already have), to the eTwinning platform so that they can make the most out of the countless online update opportunities offered through webinars, virtual teacher rooms, blogs and forums dedicated to the world of school in a European perspective for their professional development, as well as keep in touch with each other and with colleagues from different countries. In addition to the websites of the two partner institutions, the works produced and the final conclusions /report will be published on these platforms. ClassRoom will be used for the creation of a virtual classroom for students and teachers.
The participants will be students and teachers of the first grade class (2020) and the next first grade class (2021) of our four year-high course with a focus on applied sciences, which is the front line of our institute in terms of innovation. As far as Germany is concerned, the participants will be from different groups of students with Italian as an optional school subject. Great attention, in addition to sustainability, learning spaces and the exchange between teachers on methodologies, will be given to inclusion, since in a cooperative-learning context everybody feels more entitled to express his/her own opinions and ideas and support one another without the constraints of a standard to conform to.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65634 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Martino Martini di Mezzolombardo & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Gesamtschule