Wise Online Web Surfers Erasmus Project

Project Title

Wise Online Web Surfers

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: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Modern children get acquainted with smart devices and the Internet early enough. Using of them extend the possibilities of traditional learning, playing, and communicating. But are children ready to become independent and responsible users? The danger to privacy, the threat of bullying, the risk of disclosure of personal information, the potential for fraud and other challenges may arise for every child. What information on the Internet is safe to share, how to recognise friends-pretenders on social networks, what photos are online to share, whether you can believe all the information found on the Internet, whether the same rules apply on the Internet as in reality?
These are the issues that will be addressed in our 5 European schools’ (Spain, Italy, Greece, Romania and Lithuania) project Wise Online Web Surfers (WOWS). The partner schools come from different countries, but they all have a high degree of awareness regarding the safe Internet for children. All of the schools have previous experience in bullying prevention activities and projects. We are also experienced teachers in creating different activities about cyberbullying prevention in our schools and we see that it is very important to move into the next step and make students lead their own project about this specific topic.

The Objectives of the project are understanding the responsibilities and dangers in the use of technology and the networks, to decrease the conflicts among students and to improve their English communicative skills. These goals will be accomplished through a blend of different activities during all the project period of 24 months (2019 September – 2021 August). The challenge our schools are going to answer to is to identify the Internet using problematic situations among 10 – 14 aged pupils and make suggestions how to improve them. The project has been designed into two different parts, the first year the activities will be focused into the detection and prevention of bad uses of technology to move into the next step during the second year which will be focused into the actions that need to be taken to avoid cyberbullying.

Not only students and teachers but families and other community members will be beneficiaries of the project activities thanks to the dissemination of the final products of students. Data collecting, carrying out surveys, making graphs, posters, presentations, taking part in workshops, discussions, debates, integrated lessons, video creation etc. These activities will let the schools’ communities to learn about the situations at all participating schools, to think of possible solutions and give the students and teachers opportunity to directly collaborate with participants from partner schools. Cooperation will be an intensive and fruitful one, as the project will also allow the exchange of practices among teachers from different countries, and will promote new working methods.

There will be different final products in this project, all related to the proper use of technology and networks. Posters about healthy habits, a video about safe use of the online technologies, including activities at schools during all project term and during mobilities, sequencing them and showing intermediate results at all stages with students’ opinions, emotions, personal examples, advices and providing conclusions and rules how to be a smart web surfer. The participants of the project will acquire and enrich their knowledge about feeling safe in modern digital world (detecting and avoiding potential dangers), develop their social and civic competences, senses of initiative and creativity, will broaden their horizons, improve their English, ICT and communication skills. The teachers will also exchange new perspectives on different working methods through formal and non -formal education. All the activities of the project are directed to help the pupils to become tolerant, respectful, responsible and wise digital world consumers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 25899 Eur

Project Coordinator

ESCOLA GUERAU DE LIOST & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo ” Ex Circolo Didattico” Rionero in Vulture
• 1. Gymnasio Sofadwn
• Scoala Gimnaziala “Invatator Radu Ion “
• Joniskio “Saules” pagrindine mokykla