iLEARN Erasmus Project

Project Title

iLEARN

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 2019

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

iLEARN is an educational project that combines and puts into action some of the most relevant modern learning theories and tools, aiming to realize the “class of the future”: challenge and inquiry based learning, flipped classroom, e-learning and ICT tools (learn how to present, video making and theatre, augmented and virtual reality). These innovative tools and methodologies are more or less available to most schools that teachers need to applicate not partially, based on separate training experiences, but holistically as proposed by the project’s methodology, resulting in meaningful and efficient learning outputs.

The main objective we pursued was to empower students to take charge of their own learning process with responsibility and self-awareness together with the teacher as a guiding, facilitating and assuring factor. Through the project, teachers strengthened their professional skills by sharing best practices on ICT tool management and innovative teaching approaches. At the same time, students started to develop their digital competences and basic skills in line with the relevant European frameworks.

METHODOLOGY
PHASE 1: Each partner school in the project created a team of teachers who actively participated in the project.
PHASE 2: Each team of participating teachers should have designed and implemented the learning methodology on at least two topics, creating and sharing the material (lesson plans and evaluation report on implementation) among the partners. In practice, this phase was applied only by the Italian team during the mobility action in Italy.
PHASE 3: In view of the mobility students strengthened their language skills through CLIL in the classroom and through simple group building activities among the students.
PHASE 4: Only one mobility action was carried out in Italy during which several common activities of cultural exchange and sharing were organised.
The other schools, after the mobility ended, verified the applicability to their own students, discovering and evaluating the local methods as well as the experience.
PHASE 5: Unfortunately, the second mobility in Greece did not take place because the partner withdrew in February 2020 due to the lack of authorisation from the Greek National Agency. Since March 2020 no activities took place due to the pandemic.
In September 2020, together with the Spanish and Cypriot partners, we re-planned the activities, but due to the situation in which the Italian school found itself, it was not possible to implement them.

OBJECTIVES:
Learn how to learn 2.0 (“iLEARN”);
Put into action the technological innovation enhancing available resources in each school;
Learning during application and meta-cognitive learning;
Development of communication and expressivity, leadership, cultural, reasoning, emotional, and creativity skills for students;
Group learning, development of social skills and major inclusion of students with linguistic and logical/math deficiencies;
Implementation of the European framework for digital competences principals throughout students’ and teachers’ work;
Best practice exchange among teachers, mobility and contact with learning environments from partner EU states;
School staff literacy development on modern learning theories through practical applications and local dissemination.

PARTNERSHIP MEMBERS:
1) Manfredini Middle School, Italy (Fondazione Sant’Agostino)
2) Pascal English School of Lemessos, Cyprus
3) La Salle Paterna, Spain (Hermanos Escuelas Cristianas-Colegio LaSalle).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 32518,8 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fondazione Sant’Agostino & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Hermanos Escuelas Cristianas-Colegio LaSalle
• PASCAL ENGLISH SCHOOL LEMESOS
• Ekpedeftiki Shareholder Ltd