Integrating technology in the teaching process, path towards building 21st century skills Erasmus Project

Project Title

Integrating technology in the teaching process, path towards building 21st century skills

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: Pedagogy and didactics; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Starting from the fact that we live in a “digital reality”, in which the Internet of Things, Internet of Everithing, cloud storage, or the implication of artificial intelligence in decision-making in day-to-day life, including in the deep lerning process, are a daily reality, has a major impact not only on the economy but also on our social life.
The rapid pace of developing new equipment and technologies and generating new reading and writing formats, new digital tools, increasingly diverse information tools make today’s young people need a range of skills and abilities much bigger than in the past, many of them working in areas that didn’t exist a few years ago.
The organization of the learning process in its traditional forms, in which the collaboration and the communication between the student and the teacher is done only in the front, based on the board and chalk, in which the student learns individually by memorizing and the evaluation is based on reproduction is not only outdated but also counterproductive.
Thus, the four partners involved in the project aim to promote new innovative teaching approaches in line with 21st century skills, based on ICT integration and transdisciplinarity, by providing examples of best practice in the field of environmental protection.
The specific objectives of the project are:
-Evaluation of the current state of ICT use in the teaching process of the partner institutions, by applying the Innovation Maturity Model tool to assess the level in which ICT is applied in the teaching process within a partner
– Identifying and knowing the software and technology solutions that can be used in the teaching / learning / evaluation stages to acquire skills in line with the 21st century realities, by presenting devices and technologies, interoperability issues, open source online and offline digital tools, freeware, trial, shareware, commercial tools.
– Implementation of ICT for acquiring the skills of the 21st century by developing a CDS curriculum that capitalizes transdisciplinarity in the field of environmental protection, by developing an optional curriculum over whose content apply the horizontal skills of Chemistry and Biology, ensuring a transdisciplinary approach.

All four partners involved in the project are Vocational High Schools which, although they provide vocational training in different fields and specializations, share the field of Natural Resources, and the participating students are aged 16-17.
The project plans 4 meetings, of which 2 dedicated to teachers (Romania and Slovenia) and 2 were dedicated to students’ mobilities (Turkey and Portugal), and the total number of mobilities targeted by the project is 20 teachers, 30 students and 6 accompanying teachers.

The project is innovative because it promotes the integration of ICT in organizing the educational process, making it more efficient, improving the results of modern didactic strategies, involving and empowering the learner in his / her own training and offering opportunities for communication, collaboration, research-investigation, creation- in accordance with the 21 st century skills.

During the two meetings and throughout the project, environmental, chemistry, biology, computer science teachers working in mixed teams will conduct a series of studies on the importance of using ICT in 21st Century skills, assessing the degree of ICT integration, will present examples of integration of technologies (smart TV, tablet, smartphone, smart board, video projector), examples of solving interoperability problems, examples of digital tools that will be grouped by their functional role: communication , interactive collaboration, mind map generation, investigation, design, simulation, test generation, drafting a curriculum, its trans-disciplinary learning units and integrating ICT.
During the two meetings the students will go through the units of learning of the optional curriculum Modern methods of analyzing the quality of the environmental factors. Training will be provided by host school teachers of specialised subjects, while a teacher from another partner will provide co-teaching. The teaching strategies are: Philips 66 Meeting, Electronic Brainstorming Technique, Creative Controversy, Aquarium Technique, Class Return and evaluation methods will maximally exploit the alternative evaluation techniques: the portfolio, the project, the investigation.
The main tangible results will be included in 4 chapters of a Guide – Good Practice Guide on ICT Implementation in Transdisciplinary Teaching of Optional Curricula, and all products will be loaded on the project website: guide, presentation, studies, analyzes, reports, learning units, feedback, videos, demonstrative lessons, memorandum.
The project validates and certifies innovative teaching approaches based on transdisciplinarity and ICT, allowing a rapid integration into the educational process.

Project Website

https://www.21stcenturyskills.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 70144,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Colegiul Tehnic “General Gheorghe Magheru” & Country: RO

Project Partners

• SULTANGAZI ATATURK MESLEKI VE TEKNIK ANADOLU LISESI
• Gimnazija in srednja sola Rudolfa Maistra Kamnik
• Escola Profissional de Ciências Geográficas