Citizen 3.0: Empowering students with digital literacy Erasmus Project

Project Title

Citizen 3.0: Empowering students with digital literacy

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; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

In the last few years, the world of education especially in the secondary level, is experiencing a revolution due to the impact that internet and electronic devices have had in our lives. Digital technology has had a huge impact in business, education and culture. As schools, we should ensure that our students understand and engage with digital skills, as it is vital for job creation, innovation, competitiveness and economic growth.

During the two years of our project, we have worked on the topic of Digital Literacy. Although the digital skills are started to be introduced in our national curriculums, the truth is that there are not many comprehensive curricula available, and teachers have to pick and mix from different sources and providers and adapt them to their own syllabuses. With our project, we have developed our own “Citizen 3.0 Digital Citizenship Curriculum for Secondary Education” based on lesson plans which have been created in and tested during our project and implemented in our schools as a direct impact of our project. The curriculum will continue to be available not only for teachers within our institutions but open to the national and international educational sector.

We have analysed how to access online information from all different sources, potential risks (cyberbullying, online predators, inappropriate information, addiction, damaged reputation, etc.), security on the web, etc. and how to use information from a legal point of view, avoiding plagiarism and teaching our students how to produce original and well-documented final products. Undoubtedly, this has empowered and given them tools to get jobs easier in their own or other European countries. In short, we consider that we have developed our “Digital citizenship” in a way which will help students and teachers alike learn to live in this new era of digitalization.

Through the development of the project we also wanted to improve the digital competence of teachers by analysing, testing and mastering apps, resources, techniques and methodologies to implement ICTs in the classroom. Although there are still some teachers who do not take this issue seriously, the fact is that or teachers adopt their methodologies to this new reality or they will be lost in the binary world.

The project has included a great variety of activities that work on the subject of Digital Literacy, not only through the mentioned lessons plans, but also through fun activities in which students had to use their digital skills to search information on webquests, perform a treasure hunt through QR codes in the local/school library, or participate in different competitions such as short films and raps which have been worked in class.

The project has been a multidisciplinary project as the activities and outputs have been carried out by combining several schools subjects with a same objective. It has cross-curricular because its outcomes can be applied and worked from any of these school subjects and has benefited the expertise of the participants with an improvement of their digital literacy, communicative and interpersonal skills.

On completion of the project, 15000 students, teachers and parents have taken profit from the project. Results and outcomes have made them more aware about the use and misuse of the internet. Students and teachers at our schools have acquired new competences through the participation in an European project with six different schools across Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 143670 Eur

Project Coordinator

Colegio Nuestra Señora del Carmen & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Mezciema pamatskola
• Zakladna skola Sastin – Straze
• Kobanyai Harmat Általános Iskola
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Resende
• Collège Jules Lagneau