Inspiring Pupils: Digital Creativity through Film Erasmus Project

Project Title

Inspiring Pupils: Digital Creativity through Film

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Inspiring Pupils: Digital Creativity through Film
Given the current Covid crisis, recent training has been done onlin. LFEE Europe has tried to use a series of innovative approaches to keep learners and their teachers engaged. Schools and policy makers have turned to us for their digital training as they have noticed a dearth of resources and teaching practices to match the scale of the crisis. Digital education has grown exponentially over the past few months and will stay with us even in a post-covid world. This project was therefore created to develop new resources and enhance practices to suit this new digital era for both learners and practitioners.

The participating schools all have pupils from a wide range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, many of them first or second generation immigrants in their new home. The project will aim to allow all learners to share their backgrounds positively, demonstrating pride, developing their personal and social skills and aiming for successful inclusion in the new culture they find themselves in, as well as demonstrating to others their own strengths. They will learn new approaches to meet the challenges provided by the move to extensive online and distance learning. There will be an aim to increase resilience and Health and Well-Being in the learners and their wider communities.

To accompany LFEE Europe, the partners are.

Glasgow: Lord Provost’s and International Office
Cannes: Mairie de Cannes
Tenerife: Centro del Profesorado Norte de Tenerife

Six Primary Schools:
Glasgow: John Paul II Primary School; St Bernard’s Primary School
Cannes: École primaire Mont Chevalier; École Primaire la Croisette,
Tenerife: CEIP EL Toscal Longuera; CEIP Pérez Zamora,.
There are five Intellectual Outputs: a common framework for teachers on digital education, a course for learners and practitioners, production of a series of short films by the learners and their presentation in a series of Regional and International film festivals, a guide for teachers to implement their own programmes of digital creativity using their own context, and a good practice guide permanently available to teachers across Europe.
These will be produced jointly, supported by a series of joint meetings (both face to face and virtual) and will be shared with a wider public at three multiplier events.

IMPACT OF THE PROJECT:

SCHOOLS – schools will have developed expertise in using digital technology and will have an increased awareness of how to promote inclusion through digital media in their wider community and beyond.

TEACHERS – higher levels of confidence in understanding digital film methodology, familiarity with a creative approach to digital film use and access to a good practice guide which will enable them to plan creative lessons ongoing beyond the 24 month timeframe.

LEARNERS – will have the opportunity to learn how to make much greater use of digital technology, both for filming and communication, and make use of a foreign language through transnational communication. They will also have a greater knowledge and understanding of their own communities and their place within it, as well as a greater concept of how to work creatively.

For all partners, learners and practitioners accessing our resources and embarking on this creative journey, it is hoped that the production, recording and sharing of their participation in the learning process will deepen their knowledge of the area being studied but also build their resilience, mental strength and general well-being.

As a legacy to the project the good practice guide and resources will remain publicly available for teachers to use transnationally. The project website containing the project outputs will be maintained for a period of at least three years beyond the funded period of the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 222562 Eur

Project Coordinator

LFEE EUROPE LTD & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Centro de Profesorado Norte de Tenerife
• John Paul II Primary School
• Mairie de Cannes
• CEIP EL TOSCAL-LONGUERA
• École primaire Mont Chevalier
• CEIP PÉREZ ZAMORA
• St Bernard’s