Digital Education in Primary Schools Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Education in Primary Schools

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

In times of globalization and digitization, it is important that school education also have forward looking goals. The technicians and engineers of tomorrow are in our elementary schools today. For this reason, it is necessary to teach children how to use digital media sensibly and competently during their primary school years. To ensure this, we need educators who are appropriately competent and motivated.
In our planned project, we would like to evaluate and expand the media literacy of the participating schools. We want to work and learn from each other and with each other. The four participating schools should visit each other to get to know the learning and working conditions of the individual schools. The students and teachers should work together to set goals and present results at the meetings. They will also have the opportunity to experience the cultures of the individual countries up close and then share their impressions with their classmates and colleagues when they return to their school.
In the first year of the project, we plan to create a film about the participating European countries. Each country will make a contribution to this film. The school, the cultural and geographical characteristics, as well as the everyday life of each country, will be presented in an age-appropriate manner through explanatory films and other film genres. It is not a documentary- it will contain what our students are interested in. This will enable the pupils to recognize that there are many similarities but also differences in the lives of children in different European countries. The videos will be filmed in English for general understanding. This will serve to develop language skills in all countries since all participants learn English as a foreign language. The individual film contributions will be presented as a joint project on an interactive map.
In the second year of the project, we want to expand the language skills of all partners. To aid this purpose, we will create a digital dictionary in the respective mother tongue and the English language. The contents of this dictionary will relate to the topics of the films created in the first year of the project. Learning foreign languages is very important, especially in primary school. Children have a natural curiosity and quickly get a feel for a new language. Our interactive dictionary should give students an insight into the different languages and arouse interest in learning other foreign languages. This will offer the students an opportunity to develop in a variety of ways and promote a positive attitude towards foreign languages. It is also in line with the goal of the EU language policy, that every EU citizen should speak at least two other languages in addition to their mother tongue. The foundations for this language learning are laid in the primary school years.
Our project participants are from different regions of Europe. The coordinating school already has experience through involvement in Comenius projects and is located in central Germany. In this school, 270 children learn in 12 classes. All students in 2nd to 4th grade will be involved in the project. There will be an interest and age-appropriate task for each one. The second project participant comes from the Spanish island of Gran Canaria. For this school with 150 students, it will be the first time that they have participated in an Erasmus project. The third school from north-western France is also new to the Erasmus program. It has 226 students between the ages of 6 and 11. The fourth project participant regularly takes part in Erasmus projects and has already been involved in organizing them. 300 students learn at this school located in northern Portugal. When selecting the participants, it was important to us that different regions of Europe were included in order to present different areas in the films and to become aquatinted with different languages through using the dictionary. However, at the end of the project, this learning process should not be finished. We can easily imagine expanding into the Northern and Eastern European regions.
The project results should be used in the participating schools as learning and working tools. We also want to make them available to other schools in our project blog and on eTwinning.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 100900 Eur

Project Coordinator

Staatliche Grundschule Europaschule “J. F. Löffler” Gotha & Country: DE

Project Partners

• LEGATELOIS
• CEIP Luis Corti
• EDIFACOOP – Cooperativa de Educação do Indivíduo, Formação e Apoio, CRL