Beyond Borders- ICT and new media for intercultural learners Erasmus Project

Project Title

Beyond Borders- ICT and new media for intercultural learners

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 2018

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The methodological framework “Flipped Classroom” was used as a basis for our product-oriented project. Students were encouraged to create short films, podcasts, presentations and websites. The creation process was documented as a Do-it-yourself-instruction enabling our students, their fellow classmates and future generations to reproduce their own results.
Every partner country was an expert in showing other partner countries on how to create a digital product: Portugal showed the students how to use Scratch for programming their own games, Germany showed students how to use iMovie for short films, Italy used Glogster, Thinglink and Adobe spark to create presentations, Spain taught us how to create a website using word press and Poland created a workshop on how to plan and produce a podcast.
The students were constantly encouraged and enabled to try out the various ICT-tools, to create a meaningful outcome and to save their knowledge in Do-it-yourself-instructions for future reference. The learners of our project and sub-projects learnt to be (a) responsible for their own learning process, (b) were independent and (c) creative.
In between the LTTs, the project weeks conducted at the various partner schools, the students were constantly engaged in activities that helped them to prepare for a project week or deepen their newly gained knowlegde about ICT and culture and the respective country, e.g. (1) they desigend a logo which everybody could identify throughout the project with, (2) they created mind-maps about stereotypes, (3) they created short films about their schools, (4) they got engaged in internet safety activities and created anit-cyberbullying videos, comics and posters, (5) created presentations about their experiences in the various partner countries and many other products.
Given the fact that intercultural working skills and digital learning will become more and more important – especially as we have seen during the pandemic periods and school lockdowns, our students are more confident now using digital tools. Students will benefit from this experience in their future school career as well as in their work life.

Project Website

http://beyondborderserasmus.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 126229,4 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Gesamtschule & Country: DE

Project Partners

• istituto comprensivo 9
• AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE AVIS
• COOPERATIVA DE ENSEÑANZA NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LOURDES
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 41