Digital Tools and Programming in Future Classrooms. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Tools and Programming in Future Classrooms.

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 2020

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The Digital Tools and Programming in Future Classrooms project is an interdisciplinary project created to develop, test and implement innovative approaches and practices for students and teachers based on the pedagogical use of mobile applications and technology and programming to meet the needs of participating schools and the requirements for employability for today’s work world dynamics. Mobile technology has provided new means of education and has changed the way knowledge is acquired and interacted, opening the door to becoming producers and distributors of knowledge. It can be said that society is divided into 2 groups described by Prensky (2001): digital natives (youth / students) and digital immigrants (parents / teachers). Our students use mobile technologies to access social networks and use various digital applications without professional advice and most parents and teachers with all doubts and ignorance about this development. Young people do not always know how to use the application in a safe and effective way, and most of their parents and teachers do not have the knowledge and confidence to use them in teaching.
Therefore, the Digital Tools and Programming in Future Classrooms project aims to support the “natives” in using these new tools in a rational and sustainable way for their personal and educational development and to provide the target group with technical and pedagogical knowledge of these tools, which will contribute to their acceptance of new approaches in ICT learning methods and mobile applications. Teachers and students will have the opportunity to develop digital skills through project-based methodology, mobility events, staff training, and teaching and training tasks.
To implement, manage and disseminate the project, we will all use eTwinning for a project that will enable students and participants to exchange experiences and good practices and to share pedagogical resources to use mobile applications and use of programming elements to support motivation and active participation of students and promote effective learning from different subjects.
Because the project also aims to increase awareness of cultures other than their own and develop a sense of belonging to the European community and their role in it, we have planned the mobility of teachers and students. We are deeply convinced that by visiting other institutions, teachers will share their experiences and knowledge on ways to help students appreciate and complete education, develop innovative pedagogical approaches that will support the development of student learning skills and make teaching more attractive. Both teachers and students will learn about the organization of schools and different ways of teaching and learning, discovering new practical solutions to didactic and educational problems, including those for children with special educational needs. They will learn about the lives of peers from other countries and will become more open to different cultures. Learning with and from students from other European countries will certainly enrich the culture of students and influence their personal behavior towards unknown foreign cultures and people during the project and later in its future. Participants will gain a positive impact on their personal and professional identity thanks to the transnational experiences of various school systems under mobility that will increase their sense of European citizenship
To sum up, the Digital Tools and Programming in Future Classrooms project will create conditions for teachers to be more confident and proficient in discovering how mobile applications and programming elements can be used in their teaching practice to make teaching more attractive and create learning environments where students can take risks and experiment with applications in a creative way. To this end, we will create a project implementation manual and develop several teaching resources. Partner schools expect to improve student performance in various subjects, develop digital literacy skills, and increase students’ motivation to learn foreign languages by supporting students in building teamwork skills and solving problems. As part of the project, meeting with others will allow participants to: successfully develop, implement and pass on new ideas to others; be open and sensitive to new and diverse cultural perspectives; include group input and feedback, and understand that innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent errors.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 64751 Eur

Project Coordinator

SZKOLA PODSTAWOWA NR 8 IM. ORLAT LWOWSKICH W ZAMOSCIU & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Sehit Veli Demiryurek Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Miranda do Corvo