SHALL WE PLAY A GAME ? Erasmus Project

Project Title

SHALL WE PLAY A GAME ?

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: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

While preparing this project,we read almost 1200 pages of articles which focus on game based learning as an efficient and enjoyable way of learning.The main basic is “fun and enjoyment” in order to enable permanent learning.Our students are between 10 and 15 years old.It is an undeniable fact that when you integrate games into teaching,even an unenthusiastic student tries to do his best take part in learning process. As a teacher you can see the sparkle in his eyes and his willingness to success. “The sparkle in his eyes” was the great inspiration for us. We carried out some studies such as need questionnaires for both teachers and students to increase enthusiasm for learning and to enable the permanent learning and the result was “in teaching and learning environment,fun and enjoyment during the lessons is the need for permanent learning. While doing these studies, we have found out that the teachers who are innovative,creative and enthusiastic on social network,E-twinning are also trying to develop themselves and share experiences in national and international dimension on behalf of enabling better and funnier teaching environment for their students and colleagues. When our project receives the grant support,we will proceed quite a distance in game-based learning as 6 common schools.Because we always care about collective reasoning, consultation and cooperation.
According to the EUROPEAN STRATEGIC PLAN 2020;It is a fact that adaptation,problem-solving,social interaction, entrepreneurship, equality,democracy,creativity,communicative skills,democracy,innovation, cultural tolerance are basis for each person which can be provided with the help of games.
Consequently, we have made some researches on games based learning theory and noticed that we need some good examples to understand and apply it in the right way because of its various dimensions. So we have tried to practice new techniques and enjoyed them. Nowadays we have another question:”What else can we do for our students?”. We have encountered schools from different countries which have similar interest and try to find out new ways. We have discussed with them. We have discovered that we need to share the experience because just theoretical knowledge isn’t enough. We need to act the methodology out, which is the most important point to acquire knowledge. The idea of cooperation on an international level has made us feel excited and highly motivated.
We are six partners from different countries. We have different educational systems and curriculum.But the main purpose is common for all of us. We aim to teach our students self-learning and enjoy themselves for permanent learning during the classes.Our partner from Turkey is responsible for carrying out e Twinning project as the second coordinator.Italy is responsible for a Facebook blog because it is both easy and achievable for almost all teachers trainers.To make the project visible helps the better dissemination and more accessibility for everyone.
Our partner from Spain is in charge of evaluating the whole steps of the project.It is important to get feedback whether the learning teaching training activities are useful enough or not.Each step should be evaluated by a hardworking and sensible partner.We aim to make all the students no matterwhere they are from to say “learning is not a nightmare,no panic; just take part and have fun.”Maths can be difficult but enjoyable with mind games.Science and IT are complicated but have fun with coding games.Language is sometimes hard but enjoy with stories,word games.As a short all of us have the same purpose:Fun and enjoyment.With our enthusiastic,hardworking and innovative partners we are trying to make our students stay with their sparkles for learning forever and do our best to convey our studies for everyone.
All the partners have interests to spread all the dissemination results.First of all the project will be announced on school web pages.The results of this project will be made concrete by posters,competitions,exhibitions and a final portfolio to the pupils’ level.We will organize logo competition to inform and involve the entire school community of each participating country.we will create some promotional materials,such as T-shirt,pencil,pen,cups including project logo.E twinning will be used actively for national and international dissemination.The videos,games and children’sproducts, tutorials will be uploaded on the e Twinning and Facebook page as well as project website to make the project visible and accessible for the stakeholders.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 193800 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa z Oddzialami Integracyjnymi Nr 6 im. Wladyslawa Broniewskiego w Siedlcach & Country: PL

Project Partners

• CEIP Francisco Fatou
• Istituto Comprensivo Statale “Fiorentino”
• Agrupamento de Escolas do Forte da Casa
• Osnovna Skola Cazma
• abdulhamit han ortaokulu