Combating Digital Exclusion: Children educate digitally illiterate adults in safe and creative web Erasmus Project

Project Title

Combating Digital Exclusion: Children educate digitally illiterate adults in safe and creative web

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

At EU level, older people are one of the main target groups for the European Commission as reflected in the 2006 Communication “It is never too late to learn” and the 2007 Action Plan on adult learning “It is always a good time to learn”. The EU agenda for older people is becoming increasingly important and deals with such notions as:
a) promoting social inclusion,
b) improving the employment strategy,
c) combating discrimination and
d) promoting access to lifelong learning and training.
The UoI (Use of Internet) is an indicative factor of digital literacy and e-skills of the citizens for countries which aim to become the most dynamic and competitive knowledge economies in the world.
The EduWeb project aimed to enhance the transnational cooperation between schools and educational institutions across EU in order to exchange UoI good practices for fighting digital illiteracy in EU, but also to strengthen the creative and safe use of Internet through the educational systems of the participating countries. Indeed, teachers’ training about safe and creative Internet use, using educational material, helped them stimulate students to train adult members of their families, most of them digitally illiterate, at Internet use.
The proposed project aimed and as it showed, succeeded to combat digital exclusion of adults in terms of Internet use by making students the educators of the their digitally illiterate parents in safe and creative web.
The project changed the traditional way of educating children regarding safe and creative Internet use. Children from passive Internet users, became trainers for adults supporting this way the national aim to combat digital exclusion. Through this project, pupils were trained in safe and creative web in order to transfer their knowledge to the elderly. This pedagogical learning process had important results in assimilating the messages of safe and creative Internet use.
The main type of project’s activities were two:
– Teachers training took place in two parts: (a) at the theoretical part, teachers were trained using the learning platform http://eduweb-project.eu/elearning in topics related to learning basic rules of internet and ways of mobilizing children in educating digitally illiterate adults
(b) at the practical part, teachers attended experientially workshops regarding safer internet issues in schools and delivery of working sheets with the process and results of the intervention. These workshops took place in schools with the participation of pupils.
– In order to promote the actions of the project and trigger the children, competitions took place in the participating countries of the consortium. In order to support the actions of the project, the portal http://eduweb-project.eu was created regarding adults and old people and Internet Education, which includes publicly available educational content in Internet use, both for beginners and advanced users. Also this portal provides the e-learning environment http://eduweb-project.eu/elearning which is used for the on-line training of teachers. This e-learning environment has as objectives:
(a) the presentation of training materials and Internet learning courses for trainers and information services,
(b) the enhancement of conventional training and introduction of trainees in the new digital culture,
(c) the continuous training and access to the contents of the training without time limits that new trainers can educate themselves,
(d) the provision of a user-friendly and dynamic learning environment that supports continuous, two-way communication trainers and trainees and individualized learning.
Finally, for the needs of teachers’ training, necessary educational material was created. This educational material include seven thematic categories:
(a) Communicate – Learn about the tools that allow you to communicate with your loved ones and your partners through internet.
(b) Be informed – Find out how you can search information on the internet and be informed about different issues.
(c) Entertain one’s self – See how you can watch videos online, listen to music and entertain yourself through the use of the internet.
(d) Protect one’s self and others – Be informed about the different security issues and the ways in which you can protect yourself and the others on the internet.
(e) Create – Make use of the different tools available on the internet, to publish, create, or even program software yourself.
(f) Shop – Learn how you can buy things online and how you can pay your bills through the use of the internet.
(g) Technical skills – Find out how you can repair your computer by yourself, either on hardware, or on software level.
The EduWeb consortium numbers 10 partners: 4 public actors PDEDE, USRV, CPI and MYS, 2 ICT oriented partners CTI and BU and one school from each participating country. EduWeb had a strong impact on its participants. It serves 50 more Greek schools and it currently runs for this school year.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 212059 Eur

Project Coordinator

Regional Directorate Of Primary and Secondary Education of Western Greece & Country: EL

Project Partners

• Lykeio Aradippou
• Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy
• Istituto istruzione superiore Einaudi Scarpa
• UFFICIO SCOLASTICO REGIONALE PER IL VENETO
• MINISTERSTVO NA MLADEZHTA I SPORTA
• PAIDAGOGIKO INSTITOUTO KYPROU
• BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY