Cloud computing and social media in primary education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cloud computing and social media in primary education

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: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Big data, social networks and cloud computing are so much developed that they can be applied in many fields outside IT sectors (Medicine, Economics). These days the most important issue seems to be not only the ability to search for information but also to assess its value. Such ability is not common, even among young people. While discussing IT in education, it’s worth emphasising that computerisation and new communication techniques considerably sped up changes. Never before has science developed so quickly. As a result our knowledge becomes outdated in next to no time. More and more often one can recognise the need to abandon the traditional model of education based on memorising loads of set materials to the benefit of instructing how to find up-to-date information. At the same time it is required to put emphasis on developing practical application of information technologies in different spheres of life.

Specific problems that project addresses are as follows:
– common development of big data, social networks and cloud computing and everyday usage of these by young people whose teachers have very low knowledge of the subject matter,
– great importance of IT competence in students and teachers in the context of 21st century teaching methods,
– diverse level of the ability to use tools such as big data, social networks and cloud computing in teaching by teachers of schools participating in the project,
– expectations of business/economic environment regarding agreement between teaching methods and challenges of the future

Hence comes the problem that the project addresses – Schools are not ready to apply new trends in education (Big data, social networks and cloud computing).

The main objective in this project is to develop competence in students and teachers in using big data, social networks and cloud computing in teaching process at schools participating in the project.

The project addresses two target groups: teenagers from different social environment and teachers. Young people are very open to learn about the world and understand it. They are mostly innovative and use modern communication tools. Yet, they spend lots of time at school. So, if teaching staff is appropriately prepared, young people will learn more effectively.

The main objective in this project is to develop competence in students and teachers in using big data, social networks and cloud computing in teaching process at schools participating in the project.

Specific objectives:
– 100 students and 30 teachers will get familiar with state-of-the-art technologies that use big data, social networks and cloud computing in education,
– teachers and students will be trained on how to use big data, social networks and cloud computing in teaching and learning different school subject,
– students will learn about positive and negative aspects of big data, social networks and information cloud in everyday school and non-school life,
– students, teachers and schools will establish and keep online connections

During 2 years of project implementation there will be achieved the following results:
– at least 100 students and 30 teachers will deepen their knowledge of Big data, social networks and information cloud,
– target groups will develop their ability to use Big data, social networks and information cloud in teaching processes,
– target groups will gain experience of contacting people coming from different cultures or with different cultural background,
– teachers will gain experience of recognizing educational problems when Big data, social networks and information cloud are used in teaching,
– at least 30 teachers will learn new teaching methods,
– target groups will improve their communication skills in English with regards to Big data, social networks and information cloud terminology,
– target groups will develop problem solving skills by teamwork in multinational groups in real life situations and in virtual reality using big data, social networks and cloud computing tools

Products that will be the outcome of the project work:
– project logo,
– 5 subpages to school web pages,
– Facebook project website,
– Facebook project group,
– eTwinning project
– photo blog to show project activity on the Internet,
– shared project classroom on one of educational services (edmodo.com)
– 25 lesson scenarios, designed by teachers during mobilities on using big data, social networks and cloud computing in different subjects,
– 25 presentations, prepared by students, on using big data, social networks and cloud computing in studying and everyday life,
– 6 newsletters, prepared by project participants after moblities,
– 6 articles in school magazines

Project Website

https://clocomedia.net/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 127263 Eur

Project Coordinator

I Spoleczna Szkola Podstawowa im. Unii Europejskiej w Zamosciu & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Fornos de Algodres
• IESO SIERRA LA MESTA
• l. osnovna skola Cakovec
• Istituto Comprensivo Madonna della Camera