Enjoy Coding With Scratch Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enjoy Coding With Scratch

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

Project Summary

As mentioned in the COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION of 22 May 2018 on key competences for lifelong learning:” Competence requirements have changed nowadays, more and more jobs are automated, technology is playing a greater role in all areas of work and life, and entrepreneurial, social and civic competences are becoming more suitable for resilience and adaptability to change. Only 44% of the European Union population has low or no digital skills (19%). This includes information and data literacy, communication and collaboration, media literacy, digital content creation (including programming), security (including digital well-being and computing, cybersecurity), intellectual property issues, problem-solving and critical thinking is also a part of life. Learners, educators and learning providers could be encouraged to use digital technologies to enhance learning and support the development of digital competences. For example, through participation in Union initiatives such as EU Code Week.”
Besides using computers, the new generation will have to learn coding computers to be ready for this new age if they want to be employed. In future careers, computer programming will be the qualifications that many companies look for during job applications in AI era. As educational institutions schools have a mission to motivate and educate youngsters to prepare them for their future career.
With this purpose schools, each of which has coding experience will collaborate to start and spread coding practices. Turkey has expertise in coding program Scratch 3. The Lithuanian English teacher animates stories using codes. Italian IT teachers teach students to use codes with school subjects to support learning at school. Bulgarian music and IT teachers use makey-makey to create music. Macedonia has joined the code week and designed games.
They aim :
to develop critical thinking and computational creativity, problem-solving
to improve multilingual and digital competence
to adapt and develop new ways of learning and teaching and to build cooperation between schools to form a common resource
to support the improvement of Ict, technology and digital competences of individuals
to use technology in creative, collaborative ways
Develop 21st-century skills:
LEARNING- critical thinking, creative, collaborating, communicating while working on a problem and to reach the result in teams face-to-face and online.
LITERACY skills: information. media, technology; to prepare individuals for 21st century.
LIFE skills: flexibility, initiative, social skills productivity, leadership during the teamwork at code workshops.
1 joint staff training and 4 learning teaching training and 25 local activities will be carried out with teachers and 14-16 aged pupils in code workshops. 72 participants will join in coding workshops to prepare music, stories, games, course materials for classes throughout the exchanges of pupils. After each training, the schools will continue workshops as local activities with the pupils at school. The workshops will combine code programs and school curriculum. Each activity will be assessed pedagogically by teachers and pupils for the quality of learning . Surveys will be conducted right after the exchanges to evaluate the activities.
Results will be in three forms: workshops, 3 guide books, websites
– Workshops: 5 workshops will be put in to practice internationally and coding clubs will carry on workshops in each school by means of local activities.
– A guide book to start coding, Code With Me will be the guidance and resource for educators or parents to apply. Coding will support teachers in acquiring basic skills and key competences, to strengthen the profiles of the teaching profession by learning to code and using in classes. To increase motivation to code for individuals schools will organize coding workshops open public.
– A guide book named Code in Practice which includes products of Tell me Your Story, Code Music, Code Games.
– A guide book named Code in Class which includes products of Learn With Code
– An open-access website for people will provide materials for those who are interested in learning to code. The international collaboration between schools gives the opportunity to reach more pupil to enhance motivation to start coding for the future career. Assessments of the workshops by trainees and surveys of the experience during the exchange will be conducted to ensure that the project achieves its aim.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 120824 Eur

Project Coordinator

Alytaus r. Daugu Vlado Mirono gimnazija & Country: LT

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO L. SCIASCIA
• Anamur Anadolu Lisesi
• OOU”Panajot Ginovski”
• National School of Arts “Prof. Vesselin Stoyanov”