iPads School Learning for the Future Erasmus Project

Project Title

iPads School Learning for the Future

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; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

In the 3-year-long duration of the project “iPads School Learning for the Future”, all five enlisted partner schools have contributed and cooperated to achieve all the pre-set goals of the project. The project was realized among the partner schools from the Czech Republic, Spain, Croatia, Estonia, and Portugal. The project mainly focused on students of the age from 11 to 15. The differences among partner schools were noticeable and have also brought a sense of variety into the project, including not only the size and number of students but also various teaching methods as well as the social and financial background of the schools.
There were two main objectives of the project as well as there are two target groups benefiting from its fulfillment the most.
First off, the students increased their capacity to work collaboratively at the international level and improved their ICT skills and language skills. This was done in two different ways. First of those was the ICT-based methodologies (especially using iPads). The second part was the actual hands-on experience for students, who were chosen to travel abroad. During these meetings, teachers gave their own lessons with the use of iPads, they also observed some lessons given by the host teachers and they shared their experience with other teachers. Students were hosted by the families of the students where the meeting took place. They also attended some workshops where they worked conjointly with other foreign students. Consequently, the students were asked to give form to the gained information and shared it with the rest of the involved community. Due to restrictions, the last project meeting was turned into a virtual meeting, which gave to schools a new experience. Many students and teachers experienced international cooperation in the digital space during the online meetings.
Secondly, the partner schools and teachers had an opportunity to get accustomed with the ICT-based method, based on using iPads, tried, and embraced different approaches towards the method, and more importantly, shared their experience.
The following are the products of the joint effort on the project:
Website – A website on Twinspace was created and managed to contain every important piece of information and to make it available to every interested party. https://twinspace.etwinning.net/68883/pages/page/516291
Students’ conjoint work – During the project, students created conjointly a book, a film, a song album, and a comics.
Video conferencing. The aim of the conferences was for pupils to discuss and share their lifestyle and knowledge. Each conference was devoted to a different topic.
Conjoint workshops during the meetings. They worked conjointly with other foreign students, together in a presentation), at the end of the week they presented their work.
Teachers sharing experience. Teachers designed activities to teach through iPads. Each school elaborated activities that were uploaded to the website, tested by the other partner schools.
Erasmus Day – With the project coming to an end, Erasmus Day served as its climax. Its purpose was to spread the information about the project and thus make the project transparent to other students, teachers, parents, and the local community. Unfortunately, not all the schools had the chance to organize it and where they did, the impact was not that great as we had expected.
Even after the project was finished, the partners’ schools will carry on using iPads and apps within their curricula and hopefully, they will continue taking part in Erasmus projects in the future, with students and teachers getting more and more experienced in organizing and taking part in them.
This cooperation would help cater to student needs regarding getting ready for their future career and to teacher needs regarding being innovative and cooperative in a global context.

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/68883/pages/page/516291

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 140380 Eur

Project Coordinator

Základní škola a Mateřská škola Klíč s.r.o. & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• l. osnovna skola Cakovec
• Cooperativa de enseñanza Narval
• Agrupamento de Escolas do Barreiro
• Tartu Hiie Kool