Digital and media literacy for sustainable life learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital and media literacy for sustainable life 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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

According to EU Committee`s priorities 2017, AGENDA 2030 and the Project of Education Ministry of Latvia in the changes of curriculum, the goals of the Project was to develop teachers` knowledge and skills working with different digital tools in classrooms and students` knowledge, skills and attitudes of foreign language, ICT skills, social competence and digital and media literacy. The main idea of this Project was the good practice exchange, teacher and student learning and training different activities using different digital and information technologies, that is sustainable and lifelong. Teachers developed their skills how to work by digital and media literacy with pupils.They acquired innovative skills and competencies in digital education, as adding a European dimension to the everyday classwork by exchanging the developed innovative methodology aiming at the school success within the partner schools. Furthermore Innovative approaches definitely transformed their daily traditional teaching methods in lessons based on practice-based and inquire-based techniques creating a stronger relationship with their students.
Objectives were achieved: 1 To give definition to „digital competence” and „media literacy” in different countries in order to promote inclusion. 2 To explore students` knowledge about digital and media competence. 3 To explore and develop teachers understanding and skills in field of digital and media literacy. 4 To develop, transfer and implement good practice in using different digital tools for developing of digital and media competence. 5 To promote teacher training. 6 To develop students` 21st century skills 5c: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity & Innovation, Critical thinking, and Cross-cultural awareness. 7 To create European identity. 8 To make professional and collaborative contacts worldwide. 9 To improve new multidisciplinary digital skills in order to live, work, learn and participate in the modern society.
There were 6 participating countries. Each country brought into our Project something very important for students` life- learning and did it sustainable. For some participating countries, where the risks of early school leaving are high ,there were some possibilities to learn about e-learning too, the students became self-aware,self confident and more motivated decreasing their school early leaving. Some of the participants were very experienced in using technologies and collaboration and cooperation skills through different Erasmus online platforms like eTwinning. So teachers and students had a chance to do different activities inside class and out of class using digital and media literacy. They improved English language, ICT, social and cross- cultural competence. They collaborated and cooperated in different countries in different groups of partners. Teachers improved their professional development by embracing new types of literacy for a meaningful use of technologies in the classroom to be able to share their skills with other colleagues and to continue their own development also after project lifetime. Moreover, the teachers improved their ICT literacy and digital skills within their fields of teaching by using innovative and student-centered activity and also the strategic partnership itself. The project employed new e-learning teaching methods based on open source tools. We created a teaching model based on Active Learning in order to stimulate the pupils’ interest and directly encourage a sense of participation in each individual student .
Concerning the school as a whole, the project stimulated the use of ICT tools, gave both teachers and pupils a broader insight into European education and learning, propose new teaching methods and approaches for secondary schools and favoured an intercultural approach to education by instilling healthy values into the pupils, such as respect for other individuals, other ethnic groups or ideologies that was different from their own. We also are sure that this project had an impact outside the classroom as extra-curricular activity offers the opportunity to initiate communication between students of different schools. We strongly agree that the project influenced the students’ outlook on life, made them more open-minded and open to innovation, and let them develop skills and values which are extremely useful for them later on in their adult lives.
Our achieved results refer not only to teachers and students, but also to local people and community: involved parents in school life and different activities connected with the project, to tighten the cooperation with local and regional institutions and the partner
schools, to popularize the pupils’ work among their parents , the local, regional, National and European community, to produce the final products that will be beneficial to the society.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 113171 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ludzas pilsetas gimnazija & Country: LV

Project Partners

• SU Sveti Kliment Ohridski
• IIS “FERMI EREDIA”
• Liceul Pedagogic “Ioan Popescu”
• Arif Molu Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• Lycée Jean Jaurès