Cyber-Sensibility Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cyber-Sensibility

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

In 21st century adults and especially students have as essential part of their life the extended use of internet and social media. Despite the many advantages that such a habit create there are always many problems and risks that arise from it. Students create accounts and share information and personal data with innocence, parents deal with it without the proper concern and analogue teachers declare ignorance to educate their digital students. In countries like Turkey, Greece, Italy,Spain and Hungary, these phenomena are more intensive than other European countries due to the luck of proper education. Spanish and Greek partners will provide, with their experience, the necessary skills and knowledge. So, it becomes highly important to create a culture, among all these, of an identity that will characterize the appropriate digital citizen of today and tomorrow. This will be achieved by detecting and documenting the related needs and problems across Europe within this context and by providing the outputs (guidelines, web page etc.) for students, parents, teachers and the general public to deal with the matters of cyber safety efficiently. Six partners from five countries will collaborate in this project. A directorate and a high school from Edirne,Turkey and a high,non profitable school from Greece which includes all educational levels, a public primary school from Hungary, a high school from Italy, specialized in innovative practices in education and a high school from Spain which is an expert in the development of digital products such as e-learning. The project will begin by informing the participants (students, teachers and parents) about the aims and the objectives of it and the activities that will take place. The main body of the project, after some preparation actions (linguistic support, stuff meetings in every institution, forming student groups etc.) will include project meetings in every participant country, creation of facebook group, a blog and a digital hero (an animated comic about cyber safety), surveys before and after about digital footprint habits, short term exchanges of groups of pupils in Italy and Greece on designing digital hero and designing comic book, events to give information on multi-media safety, evaluation of the project by students and teachers and a final assessment of it from all the participants via video conference. Communication, which is vital in such transnational projects, will be conducted in English through e-mail, social networks, teleconferences and in person meetings in an open minded and constructive way. Time management and budget control will be controlled by the legal representative and monthly monitoring reports will be published and shared from the responsible for the project of every institution. The main actions will include training sessions from experts to teachers, exchange for students to observe good practices, the observation of new and innovative ICT technologies in action and the development of a web site with guidelines. Tools for monitoring and evaluation will include checklists, lesson observations, histograms, stratification, surveys and questionnaires and statistical analysis. In each partner school there will be a post project monitoring from the responsible person of the project. A skills document will be produced during in each transnational meeting and we will adopt enjoyable and teenagers’ friendly means such as apps and videos that will increase the adoption of products concerning digital footprint from our students. All these open source materials will be embedded in an interactive website (where users can add and download materials). Publications for parents and the local community will include innovative curriculum guidelines that will raise awareness about digital literacy for teenagers. We hope that, at the end of the project we will have materials about digital citizenship education for schools. From this project we hope that, students will acquire a broader knowledge regarding the safe use of the internet and especially the social media that are very common to them, will learn the different kinds of cyber bullying, the causes and the effects, and the proper way to report it, will understand that the web has much more potential for them, including innovative practices and maintain an attitude of safe use in the future. Teachers, in the other hand, will learn to recognize risk factors of cyber bullying in their students, purchase the skills to deal with it.

Project Website

http://www.ka2cybersensibility.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 108435 Eur

Project Coordinator

EDIRNE IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• 2 EK Peiraia
• INSTITUTO DE EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA “MARÍA MOLINER”
• Edirne Lisesi
• Pecsi Mezoszel Utcai Altalanos Iskola
• ALDINI VALERIANI