More Successful Students with ICT Erasmus Project

Project Title

More Successful Students with ICT

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Social dialogue; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

In all partner schools, according to questionaires and interviews showed us that many students spend too much time on computer instead of doing homework or studying for exams. Although they spent lots of time with computers they couldn’t even make a proper research on the Internet. Because, they didn’t know how to use even basic computer programmes to do a homework or a presantation.

We, all the partner schools, saw that most of our students had similar problems. That’s why, we came together for this project. This cross-border cooperation enabled us to compare our ICT teaching methods and assess their results. We all wanted to make students learn and use ICT actively and properly at school and in their life.

Expected objectives of the project were;

• children will increase their competence in using necessary technological items and programmes like Microsoft Office Pogrammes
• children will have good skills for job market for future
• children will be aware of the negative sides of technology on their health
• children will have a greater motivation and satisfaction in learning at school
• children will increase their social competence and emotional maturity
• children will be healthier and more active than before
• children will be more respectful to the people not just locally but internationally
• children will involve learning process more actively

At the beginning, the project consisted of 5 partners; Turkey (the coordinator), Poland, Germany, Italy and Portugal. Turkish school is the coordinator. Unfortunatelly Portugese School resigned from the project at the beginning.

Turkish school is a medium size secondary school in Germencik / Aydın / Turkey with 450 students and 40 staff. Our students are 10-14 years old. In the school, there are 20 classrooms, a library, a canteen, a science lab, a conference hall and a I.T. lab. English is taught as a second language.

The Italian comprehensive school 9° Cuoco– Schipa is situated to the center of a different districts of the city of Naples, and is organized into four complexes comprising childhood, primary and secondary; pupils attending are about 1100 by 3 to 14 years.

German School is located in the Northeast of Berlin, in a small town of 41,000 inhabitants. Our school has about 650 students, 2 social workers and 66 teachers of whom are 15 teachers for special educational needs.

Polish School Number 3 is situated in Slupsk, in the north of Poland. It’s 20 kilometers far from the Baltic Sea. We are one of the biggest schools in our town, with more than 600 students at the age 5-12 and 55 teachers.

Main Activities of the project were;

1. Preparation Activities:
informative meetings for students, teachers and parents
forming an erasmus plus corner
setting up a project website, facebook group, E-twinning page
pre questionaires before the project
Establishing School Project Teams
preparing an informative CD about school
Forming school project team

2. ICT Training Courses: Every partner arranged 4 courses before each mobility. Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Prezi and MovieMaker trainings

3. LTT Activities: There were 4 LTT during the project. In LTTs, students presented their works and created new ones.

4. Dissemination Activities: During the project many dissemination activities were done by using social media, local press, meetings, internet.

5. Transnational Project Meetings: There were four meetings in partner countries. The aim of these activities were to check project activities, to sustain the coordination among the partners, to check and plan dissemination activities, to control project phases, to share experiences and challanges in schools and to define the exact time of meetings, activities and trainings.

SOME RESULTS AND IMPACTS GAINED

Students had / was ;
• more confidence in using ICT for school success
• a higher sense of correct and sufficient usage of technology in real life;
• a higher competence in usage of technology
• a greater motivation and satisfaction in learning at school
• a higher level of social and sportive competence
• more understanding about the responsibilities like school success;
• more active participation in society through building up new friendships
• an idea of balancing social life and technology usage
• an improvement on their language skills, communicating in the language of the project (English)
• good skills for job market for future
• a chance to make friends in all partner schools
• more respectful to the people not just locally but internationally
• more positive behaviors towards a healthy life

Other valuable impacts on participating organisations:
• partners exercised their language skills both oral and written
• partners had the opportunity to get to know other cultures in general
• the European dimension opened to students who had no previous experience in abroad.
• improved skills in terms of teamwork, social relations, time management
• developed the tolerance and the collaboration

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 90065 Eur

Project Coordinator

Himmet Condur Cumhuriyet Ortaokulu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• IC9°CuocoSchipa
• Szkola Podstawowa Nr 3 im. Janusza Korczaka
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Vieira de Leiria
• Karl Sellheim Schule