Schools Coding, Robots Meeting Erasmus Project

Project Title

Schools Coding, Robots Meeting

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

Project Summary

As the classical understanding in education systems in Europe is gradually left behind and STEM practices begin to settle as its core point, a new education model is emerging. Considering the 21st century technological development, coding and robotic design studies within the STEM implementations get to the foreground as indispensable and developing field. With robotic coding and designs, technologies that populate every area of our lives in the fields of engineering, mathematics, science, and even arts are produced. It cannot be said that our educational system is adapting this technological revolution rapidly. However, international project-based activities are crucial for this adaptation.
While evaluating the 21st century lifestyle, it becomes obvious that the vast majority of our students continues their lives as basic users or addicted to IT tools. We know that it is vital to approach to our students of “Z generation” with methodologies convenient to this era. As an institution, we are in a serious search for development of modern approaches in education. We want to involve our students of this generation in STEM applications and Coding and Robotic Design studies which are important part of STEM education.
Due to this project, we plan to share and enhance good examples and bring out an innovative approach with project partnerships in the field of STEM, Coding and Robotics design. While evaluating the characteristics of the project stakeholders, we can see that the partners have such studies and expertise: “Lego Mindstroms” in Greece, “S4A, Arduino” in Romania, “Scratch and Baldie” in Poland, “SmallBasic, MakeBlock” in Turkey. In this sense, the experiences we will share with our partners having different levels of expertise in coding and robotic design, as a whole, will enable us to have an innovative, systematic, disciplined and dynamic perception of education in the field of STEM, coding and robotics design. Even if we run simple studies in this field, we cannot say that we are able to produce larger-scale studies. The approach our international partners are supposed to provide will complete our own perception of education and ensure that it is developable. Our project activity plans include thematic study topics in which each partner can transfer their expertise to other partners. On condition that our project is approved, we believe that we will bring out an innovative approach on using computing tools in education.
As curriculum applied in the subject of STEM & Coding and Robotic Design at primary level lacks in our country, studies in this field are still very insufficient. Since classical education approach can provide very few students with good basis for the future, with the perception of STEM education we want to make them gain skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, product development and assessment, and also want to be their innovative guide. Coding is a process which is as important and fundamental as literacy skill. Because it involves many important elements such as “thinking, mathematics, problem solving, science, etc.”. Due to this reason we extremely need good school samples as an institution. These experiences will provide us to make our students gain a stronger and more modern foundation, and also a better perspective for the future.
In total 25 teachers actively, more than 200 students from 10 to 14 years old will participate in the project work from the partner countries. There are teachers from various branches in the project. This will enable coding and robotic studies to be used in fields besides the informatics lessons. Students will actively participate in these processes via the activities the schools will undertake. Within the scope of these studies, each school will form an active group of students to determine the students who will participate in the final activity. By developing products with them, they will be able to participate in the “international coding and robotics” competition. The aim here is to develop products together rather than establish international rivalry and ensure that students become a significant part of an international event. In addition to make improvements on the subjects of STEM, Coding, Robotic Design, our project will provide important contributions in areas such as good classroom practice, sharing of cultural heritage and intellectual development. All project processes will be shared on the eTwining project page at the same time and provided to spread over a wider area. In addition, a booklet titled “The use of computing tools in education” will be published with the information obtained as a result of project experiences. This product will be delivered to many stakeholders and experiences will be disseminated.
This project will enable us to develop with solid basis in direction to strengthen our understanding of a dynamic, critical, creative education in our institution.

Project Website

http://schoolscodingrobotsmeeting.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 56231,92 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sehit Uzman Cavus Egemen Yildiz Ortaokulu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa im. Wspolnej Europy w Nawodnej
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA MIHAI EMINESCU
• 8o Gymnasio Volou