Connect your Learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Connect your Learning

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 2017

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The project explored the potential of an approach to education called “connected learning”. This pedagogy advocates for broadened access to learning that is socially connected, interest-driven, production-centred and oriented toward educational opportunity. Our main objective was to foster engagement of school students in connected learning experiences across the curriculum. We focused on the subjects where we saw the potential to enhance students’ learning through creative use of digital media, taking into account our pedagogical expertise in teaching native and foreign languages, social sciences, science, IT and entrepreneurship. We developed new educational scenarios with a view to:

– Encouraging experimentation and play
– Implementing cross-curricular learning activities
– Favouring experiential learning
– Sharing class projects with authentic audiences
– Making students active users of technology in the process of learning rather than passive receivers of digitally mediated instruction

Main target groups
– School teachers and youth workers
– School students in middle/high schools
– Decision makers in the field of education

Outputs
– Methodical publication consisting of 3 parts: current theory and practice of connected learning, new learning scenarios and outcomes/experiences of their implementation; issued in 4 languages (EN, HR, PL, PT)
– Pilot learning activities based on the scenarios in the partners’ schools
– Online platform: an environment supporting the project community of interest and sharing project results with a wider audience
– Dissemination tools: database of contacts, information leaflets and posters, newsletters, multiplier events in each partner country

Outcomes/impact
– For school students: better engagement in learning with digital media connecting their formal and informal spheres of learning; better mastery of subjects in focus of the project, i.e. language arts, social studies, science, IT and entrepreneurship as well as increased digital competence, more positive attitudes to school as opening to their interests and peer cultures as well as European projects.
– For school teachers: improvement of their teaching and youth practice through acquaintance with connected learning approach, enrichment of their classes with cross-curricular themes and use of digital media, creation of more inclusive learning environment taking into account the varied students’ competences, experiences and interests, better understanding of young people’s learning lives in the digital age; new opportunities for professional development raising appreciation of EU projects.
– For partner organisations: introduction of innovative teaching approaches fostering better student engagement in learning across the curriculum including learners with different abilities, talents and disadvantages, more effective use of ICT for this purpose, more openness to out-of-school environments in which students pursue their interests and hobbies, reinforced capacity for European cooperation, willingness to integrate good practices from other contexts
– At systemic level: new input to the educational reform debate, strengthened argumentation for interdisciplinary learning paths across the curriculum, use of digital media for project-based experiential learning extending beyond the traditional classroom and the need to target competences essential in the 21st century

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 63165 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centrum Edukacyjne EST & Country: PL

Project Partners

• AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DR. JORGE AUGUSTO CORREIA
• Srednja skola Dalj