Digital integration in the classroom courses Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital integration in the classroom courses

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The main core of our project was to make lessons more vivid and facilitating teaching and learning process with 21st century digital competences and innovative teaching approaches with innovative web tools. Today, digital skills are highly valued; in the future, they are vital. They are also considered to be taught as a third core subject, and treated with same importance as numeracy and literacy in some countries.

Through the project the partners have managed their activities depending on the ITEC-Designing the classrooms of future- strategies; that is they have encouraged the pupils work on the real problems or subject matters they face in their daily lives, analyse the problems, try to find possible solution, develop methods and materials to solve the problem. While doing all this work the pupils were led with the help of innovative methods of teaching and encouraged to use ICT tools to enrich their learning process, improved their digital and language competences and enhance peer teaching/learning.

In order to select the participants before each LTT activity a contest related to the topic of the exchange program was announced at partner schools. Each time a different contest on a different topic helped us to keep the interest to the project alive and motivate the pupils to use their digital, interactive, personal and social skills in an integrated way. 63 students and 36 teachers took part in the LTT activities actively during the project. Among 63 students, 27 students were chosen among the ones who had fewer opportunities and 36 students were the winners of the competition- that is, they were chosen among the ones who work hard in the concept of the project. Teacher participants wanted to implement the successful outputs of the European Union project at their schools, cities and countries and represent their schools in international platform to expand the vision of recognizing the educational systems in Europe better. They were also brought European dimension to their own organisation. They participated in workshops on ICT, actively used innovative web tools in the classroom courses and integrating digital technologies in classroom courses and carried out successful eTwinning projects regarding ICT field. They also took part in many projects in their provinces. The teachers involved in these activities took part in the Erasmus plus project to bring their own experience to the work.

The contact person and one head teacher (only coordinators teachers from Spain and Portugal took part in the 1st TPM, the coordinator and deputy manager joined from Turkey, other partners as requested) from each partner attended a two-day kick off meeting at the beginning at the Lithuanian coordinator’s school and ending of the project at Lithuanian coordinator’s school. In the scope of the project, there were 6 LTT activities:
1. “Eco Calendar” in Romania,
2. “Creation of an ecological land model” in Turkey,
3. The “Entrepreneurship” activity in Portugal,
4. The “I do my first App” activity in Greece,
5. Creation of the “digitally integrated book” in Italy, and
6. “SING for Europe” CD in Spain.

The methodology was project based combination of eTwinning and itec-designing the classrooms of the future with 21st century digital competences with different and educative web 2.0 tools-prezi, 3d sketch up, augmented reality, aurasma, digital story telling bitstrips, story jumper, virtual classroom-edmodo and innovative approaches such as flipped classroom-learning to learn were in the heart of the project and we have been inspired by the future lab.

With the project, each school met new and innovative teaching and learning platforms, the pupils and the teachers had an international perspective and experience the taste of creating new things and materials with their friends from other cultures. All these lead the persons in the schools to work more and see the education, teaching and training process from a different point of view.

Project activities contributed to the awareness of being an active and conscientious European citizen. Our project motivated students to start studying languages, foster the evolution of students’ ICT competences, as well as of their personal and social skills which were not necessarily developed through classical courses: autonomy, creativity, capacity for teamwork, etc… Furthermore it developed students’ entrepreneurship through doing the search about young entrepreneurs of their countries. We expected a long-term impact on the local community as a whole (municipalities, institutions, NGOs, associations, other schools) as local stakeholders who helped with the spreading the information.

One of unplanned but very important project result is the career shift of Italian head master from secondary level to vocational inspired during the first kick off meeting in Lithuania after the visit the exhibition of vocational education in January 2018.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 130960 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kauno buitiniu paslaugu ir verslo mokykla & Country: LT

Project Partners

• Burdur Alpaslan Ali Can Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi
• Istituto Comprensivo di Lodi SECONDO
• Nuestra Señora de la Paz
• Colegiul National Alexandru Ioan Cuza
• Agrupamento de Escolas Caldas de Vizela
• GYMNASIO LAVARON