Responsible Digital Natives Erasmus Project

Project Title

Responsible Digital Natives

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Social dialogue; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

Digital Addiction is a global problem to be hadled meticulously. Social media is notorious for its impact on the mental health of young people. Gaming addiction is listed as a mental health condition for the first time in 2018 by the WHO. A study shows that as mobile phone use increases, so does anxiety. There is a strong link between heavy internet use and depression. Information pollution on these platforms also caused many disastrous chaoses. The languages also got affected negatively. Mısuse of Language via non-sense abbreviations degenarated Linguistic competence.
If we are to google “Child” and “Digital World” together, we can see many sources but almost half of them praises Digital World Children and other half shows the bad results for them. In the 21st Century Digital Era, we have seen the strong need to combine Technology and digital media and information literacy, a subcategory of 21st Century Skills with the Principles of Europe 2020, ET 2020 and Lisbon Strategy which means we will work on raising awareness of the good use of Teachnology for reasonable TECH-LIFE Balance. As this case is spread all over the world we would like to work as 6 schools to raise awareness in 6 European Schools opening to that city; Country with a well-designed Dissemination. We started our works with ” Responsible Digital Natives; Ready Natives” on Etwinning and plan on goin on with this Erasmus Project which means that we have been immersed in this project from the beginning till the end. In the project we will have both Peer – Coaching&Learning and INTERGENERATIONAL based approach within our “Inclusive” approach to all students. Our first focus group is Secondary School Ss so that they can be good models for their younger siblings; Ss at the same school and they will be conscious highschool Ss. While working on this project we will work with parents, the other primary Focus Society, as they should also be good models for their children.
These Ss will also be good models for one another. In this way, we believe that we’ll expand our area for conscious individuals who will be the active and RESPONSIBLE citizens tomorrow. Our goals are to
– motivate all project participants to use technology for wellbeing, teaching, learning, sharing,developing new ideas, disseminating ideas working with participants of all ages to make them conscious that technology can make our lives better if we use it on responsible way.
– use interdisciplinary and inclusive method around partnership among 6 European Schools
– transfere the good examples into all schools
– develop inter-cultural dialogue to be Responsible, Active citizens eradicating Xenephonia
-raise awareness about Mother Tongue and Foreign Language Purification through encouraging good Language Use sterilized from non-sense Social Media Language
– enlighten students about copy right, how to make research using Digital platforms against information pollution.
– include teachers, management staff,other schools, parents, local people, local directorates as
possible as the natural disseminators of this project
– get more prestige for each school and self-esteem, proficiency for each participants for Life Long Learning Philosophy
We would like to work with as many students as possible but to be concise in the name of evaluating, we will mostly work on 10-12 year old Ss. At local activities all Ss will have chance to join activities. The Ss having some barriers such as social, health will be encouraged. We have a well-designed dissemination Plan so that each single part will be visible for the ones interested around Europe and the world. For this, we will focus heavily on e-twinning. We have started our works around “fair share of work” and we believe that we will end in this motto. Apart from common activities we have specialized the project’s ongoing arrangements such as general coordination on Spanish school, website works on Lıthuanian team; e-twinning checks on Croatian and Latvian teams, Mobility Dissemination videos on Turkish team, Questionnaires-evaluation on Polish team. Sustainability is another focus of our Project which means we would like to attract many schools for further projects in the name of being pioneers ; we will be able to create further projects with new partners either on etwinning or Erasmus + adding the applied good examples of this project to the upcoming ones. We want everyone to learn how to be e-safe, to revise online sources and to evaluate them, develop critical thinking considering online sources, to use technology on proper and safe ways, to use digital tools in teaching, etc.
Face-to-face interaction for sharing experiences, Live events on eTwinning for planning, developing and project management, Learning Teaching Trainings working around “collaborative Problem Solving” method will encourage any participants more than any other Project ideas so it will be the best if we implement these ideas through this Erasmus Plus KA229 Project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 147285 Eur

Project Coordinator

I.E.S. Emilio Castelar & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Sincan Şehit Abdullah Büyüksoy Bilim Ve Sanat Merkezi
• Tukuma 2.vidusskola
• Siauliu Medelyno progimnazija
• IV Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im.B.Prusa
• Osnovna skola Zlatar Bistrica