Have Fun and Learn Through Social Media Erasmus Project

Project Title

Have Fun and Learn Through Social Media

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Educational scientists have been trying to develop new techniques, methods and material since the very beginning of teaching and training as formally and informally for students. The methods and techniques have started to change as student oriented that is compatible with students’ needs in the last 10 years from teacher oriented. While the time has been changing along with the technology, even the fun methods and techniques away from ICT has started to fade away both amongst the students and teachers. We as 6 partner countries (Turkey, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Lithuanian, Bulgaria) active in the field of vocational education decided to develop the social media tools that we already use and get better results by cooperation and sharing our knowledges and skills with this project.

We all are vocational secondary school that have students aged between 14-19. The reason why we all are vocational school is that our students’ motivation level towards the lessons as Maths, Literature and Foreign Language is lower than the other type of schools’ students when compared. That’s why we decided to reorganise these lessons by cooperating amongst us and developing new ways to spice up our lessons and raise our students’ motivation, knowledge and skills level. Another reason why we want to run this project is to raise the knowledges and skills of our teachers that has to be compatible with new generation.

As we all know to stay away from social media and its tools is not much possible if you are living in a modern environment and these tools have already been started to integrate into all our lives including almost every field of life from private life to work, economy and politics. The new generation also love to pass their time in these platforms and that’s why we decided to use these tools to raise the motivation and knowledge level of our students with the tools that they already love to use every moment of their lives.

In this project we organised 2 students ltt activity and 2 staff ltt activity and home activities to address our needs. The first ltt will take place in Turkey for 5 days with the participation of 20 teachers working on preparing a social media e-guide regarding how to integrate popular social media tools into our lessons to improve the Maths, Literature and foreign language skills and knowledge of our students.

2nd ltt will take place in Italy for 5 days with the participation of 15 students from all participant schools. Students will attend the Maths, Literature and Foreign language classes together enhanced with social media tools and study collaboratively then create an e-list describing the classes with or without social media tools.

3rd ltt will take place in Portugal for 5 days with the participation of 15 Maths, Literature and Foreign Language teachers to let them improve their professional skills and knowledges. They will work collaboratively for 5 days to learn the ways to develop themselves as professionals and raise their professional profiles.

4th ltt activity will take place in Lithuanian for 5 days with the participation of 15 students from all partners. Students will work collaboratively and discuss the pros and cons of social media and create a ”safe use of social media e-guide” for their peers.

With this project we aim to get these results:

1) Increase our students motivation level so that to address their underachievement in Maths, Literature and Foreign Language lessons.
2) Improve the profile of our teachers by letting them to have chance to work on new educational tools.
3) Enhance the educational service that our schools provide for their students.
4) Change the bad image of social media and show people that these tools can be turned into a very practical and fun educational tool if we learn how to use and integrate them in classes.

Project Website

https://havefunerasmusproject.webnode.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 19893 Eur

Project Coordinator

CINARCIK MESLEKI VE TEKNIK ANADOLU LISESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• 1er EPAL THESSALONIKIS
• Agrupamento de Escolas José Estevão
• Professional School of Ecology and Biotechnology “Prof. Dr. Asen Zlatarov”
• Istituto Professionale di Stato “Maffeo Pantaleoni”
• Kauno taikomosios dailes mokykla