Schools for 21st century Erasmus Project

Project Title

Schools for 21st century

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

Audiovisual expression and communication are essential skills in life and business world today. There are strong signs that ICT industry will continue to grow across a range of a variety of industries, and audiovisual skills will strongly contribute to a better expression, understanding and cooperation in 21c. worl . Workers will need a high level of audiovisual and ICT skills to cope with the demand for developing more attractive and personalized ICT products, These skills will also be needed to represent personal and citizenship values, so that audivisual and ICT skills need to be continually redefined at school curriculum. Literacy can be defined as the ability to make sense of ideas. This often means reading, but also listening, viewing, observing, writing, creating, designing; each kind of literacy with with its own characteristics are an essential part of education today.

Audiovisual and digital literacy prepares students to better achieve knowledge and to participate in a rapidly changing world. Students will have the opportunity to acquire those skills and implement the school curriculum throguh a variety of innovative proposals like work side by side with professionals of a commercial radio station, learn to create Mobile Apps, experiment with Augmented Reality, coding, robotics…While being integrated in the learning process.The project intends to develop audiovisual and ICT competences, to help students and teachers have a better understanding of data-based school improvement, management, Immersive Education, innovative and integrated audiovisual, digital skills.

The project will validate teaching strategies that can be used to achieve high quality teaching, quality materials and higher level of students achievements. Offering training which is tailored to the needs and conditions of teachers is one of the key factors to ensure that an education of quality is available and effective. It has repeatedly been stated that teachers have a critical role to play in the development of an education of high quality. “Teacher´s competences are seen as sucessfull learning”.Leadership, knowledge, skills and commitment of teachers are key factors in achieving high quality educational outcomes, including those students with special needs and those coming from depressed areas.

Partners have proposed a serie of qualitative studies that identify and describe innovative pedagogical practices on teacher training. It provides a context for implementing innovative methods and contents in our teacher training courses.

Project Aims
1. To increase the quality of education and training, combining higher levels of excellence and attractiveness with opportunities for all, including those in disadvantaged situation by using accessible, affordable technologies in school.
2. To explore new ways of teaching, learning and assessment in innovative way. Being innovative is about looking beyond what we currently do well, identifying the big ideas of tomorrow and putting them into practice.
3. To develop teachers´ integrated teaching skills, motivating and enabling students to be socially conscious, critical thinkers, decision makers, etc. and this can be better achieved if students first possess a high level of literacy (reading, listening, viewing, observing,…) which is essential to the effective understanding of knowledge and communication of ideas.
4. To implement cutting edge digital skills and audiovisual literacy through a collaboration with experts and through connected learning at participant schools.
Target groups: Secondary students, teachers, studentteachers, universities, teacher training centres, university professors and professionals of communication.

Project Outputs
1. A course for teachers training with four modules: a)audiovisual literacy, b) Digital literacy, c) Communication ,d) teachers produce “learning designs” putting theory into practice. Its contents will be published in EU resource banks
2. Piloting and a report on experimentation
3. A mobile APP will be created, which will be a complementary tool to both assess audiovisual, communication skills and digital skills teachers must achieve. In the App, there will be 3 levels :a. Core of digital skills;b. Intermediate skills; c. Advanced skills.

Radio programmes implemented at Schools, will share a Common Core Curriculum, teachers will be able to teach radio journalism; engaging discussions on current affairs in a way that builds students’ critical thinking and literacy skills enabling them to apply these skills to news. A meaningful; creative and dynamic methodology; multidisciplinary discussion and deliberation emphasizing the power of media culture, strengthening their citizenship. ARadio App will contribute to interact with listers.

The pedagogy of audiovisual, communication, digital literacy provides an important framework for enabling students to improve their European citizenship.

Project Website

https://www.schools21cproject.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 138227 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• National Agency for Education
• Centro Público Integrado O Cruce
• Radio Coruña SL
• SCUOLA SECONDARIA DI PRIMO GRADO A. CRISCUOLO
• FUNDACION PUBLICA GALLEGA CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DE SUPERCOMPUTACION DE GALICIA
• AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE BARCELOS