Zaprogramuj swoją przyszłość Erasmus Project

Project Title

Zaprogramuj swoją przyszłość

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Gender equality / equal opportunities; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The project “Programme your future” relates to the main aim of the project- teaching programming, solving problems using computers and teaching computational thinking, that is formulating problems in such a way as to make it possible to solve it using computers and other devices. The idea of creating the project was the reaction to the information about changes in Polish and Finnish educational system. The new core curriculum in primary schools in Poland and Finland has been extended by compulsory teaching programming. Programming skill is defined as one of the most useful skills on the labour market and teaching programming is a great challenge for modern schools. The aim of the project was to develop information skills among students and teachers by means of a great variety of ICT tools used in the project. Teachers of partnership schools exchanged their knowledge about methods and tools of teaching programming from the first class of the primary school, teaching computational thinking and using ICT tools in teaching and learning. The project was also the initiative to build the motivation to learn science among women. On this account over 50% of the participants were girls.
Students and teachers of 4 schools from Finland, Estonia, Poland and Spain took part In the project. Over 70 students at different age from 10 to 16 and about 50 teachers of partnership schools took part in direct project activities. The teachers created scripts, took care of students during exchanges, helped translate documents or participated in other project activities.
4 short-term exchanges of group of pupils in Finland, Estonia, Poland and Spain took place. During the visits pupils took part in activities concerning the topic of the project, they took part in workshops connected with learning programming and robotics, using information-communication technology to solving problems and they visited places connected with new technologies. 4 transnational project meetings took part in Poland, Finland and Spain. The teachers and headmasters of partnership schools took part in them. During the project every school take various actions concerning the topic of the project including programming and robotics workshops for students and teachers, taking part in Hour of Code, meetings with IT specialists, English courses for teachers. In the beginning all partnership schools prepared some posters which informed the school’s community about the project. Students designed their own proposals for the logo of the project and they also sent Christmas wishes with the use of Christmas cards programmed by them. The teachers of mathematics, geography, physics, biology, chemistry, history/civics and native language subjects created scripts with the use of the idea of computational thinking and IT tools for solving problems on these subjects. Furthermore the teachers of computer science (or subjects related to computer science) created scripts of teaching programming from the first class of the primary school. Within the project the website of the project www.pyourf.eu was made. It can find there all information about realized activities, scripts of mathematics, geography, physics, biology, chemistry, history/civics and native language subjects concerning teaching computational thinking and using IT tools for solving diffrent problems on these subjects, scripts of teaching programming, package of computer programs solving choosen problems, description of methods and tools used for teaching programming on different stage of eductaion.
Thanks to the project teachers responsible for implementing programming skills in partnership schools can teach programming in their schools more effectively and teachers other subjects got the basics of the knowledge of teaching computational thinking. Majority of teachers and students involved in realizing the project think that thanks to this they increased their openess, tolerance and acceptance of other cultures. It also contributed to the high motivation to learn foreign languages. Teachers truly believe that international cooperation affected the quality of their work and the frequency of using different ICT tools in teaching. The participation in Erasmus+project increased interesting in programming among students and teachers’ willingness to taking part in international projects.
Everyone will be able to make full use of website resources after the project has finished. In the longer term, effects of our work will be available for all schools where teaching of programming will be introduced.

Project Website

http://pyourf.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 109140 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gimnazjum nr 3 im. Unii Europejskiej & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Marttilan koulu
• IES HERMANOS D’ELHUYAR
• Martna Pohikool