Step by step towards digital learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Step by step towards digital learning

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The background of the project is the need to make full use of digital learning at school. Until now, some aspects of it have been introduced in the participating schools but only sporadically and randomly. In the digital methodologies introduced, students have shown more interest in the lessons and learn much faster than the traditional ones.
Hence the motivation of the project which aims at introducing in a systematic way tools and methodologies of digital learning in the school curriculum of the participating schools.
The project aims at creating a virtual space (Hub) in which the participating schools can share their experiences not only with each other but also with the public outside the school. On the one hand, the digital hub will be the tool to integrate and coordinate the educational and training actions together with eTwinning and other platforms (eg Google Education). On the other hand, the digital hub will be both a way of exchanging experiences between the participating countries and a common resource in which to cooperate in order to build new learning experience.

The project includes six schools from the following countries: Italy (applicant school), Greece, Romania, Poland, Latvia and Turkey. The project is aimed to students between 14 and 19 years old.
The planned project activities are different. First of all there will be a warm up stage in which there will be the introduction of SELFIE (Self-reflection on Effective Learning by Fostering the use of Innovative Educational Technologies) as a tool for analyzing and evaluating the digital status of the participating schools in order to have a common framework. Then the systematic use of the eTwinning platform in order to cooperate and monitor the progress of the project in preparation for international mobilities. Still in the warm-up stage, the creation of the digital school hub will be analysed in detail.
The project is divided into 6 stages, as many as the international mobilities provided. At each stage the participating schools will use the digital teaching scheduled so that teachers will have to carry out it together with groups of students. At the end of it there will be an international meeting in one of the countries of the partner schools in which the participating schools will share the results and carry out critical assessments on the digital teaching introduced. The six stages include the following learning methods: organizing a digital school trip, flipped classroom, problem based learning, project based learning, augmented reality, social Hackathon.
Each stage will be preceded by the establishment of a working group composed of teachers and students who will be always different in order to spread the various digital learning methods as widely as possible in each participating school.
After each meeting, the country of venue will write a newsletter and submit to the others an online evaluation test (one for students, one for teachers) about the quality of the meeting.
As a general result, digital learning strategies will be introduced into the official study plan of each participating schools.
The results will be both the increase in teachers’ professional skills and the growth of motivations and learning outcomes for students.
The organization of the final social Hackathon will be an important stage to verify the results of the project and will be an opportunity to disseminate and extend the project outside the school. In this final event students will have to create digital solutions for some social companies and associations of the territory.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 198530 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Omnicomprensivo D.Alighieri & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Rigas Makslas un mediju tehnikums
• I Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Adama Mickiewicza w Bialymstoku
• Özel Sancaktepe Teknoloji ve Insan Koleji Lisesi
• LICEUL BANATEAN
• KALAMARIA LABORATORY CENTER