SILENT CODING Erasmus Project

Project Title

SILENT CODING

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: Disabilities – special needs; Access for disadvantaged; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Europe 2020 strategy; It aims to increase the quality and efficiency of education and encourage entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation.
In order for the EU to achieve a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, it is extremely important for disabled people to participate in the education and business life.
The main priorities for the project partners are: To provide contemporary education to hearing impaired students.To equip them with 21st century skills. To Improve their digital competencies.To contribute to their employment. It is to enable them to contribute to the society they live as happy individuals without being excluded.
In this context, An eTwinning project on robotic coding has been launched for hearing impaired students in partner schools. Then, needs analysis surveys clearly revealed the robotic coding education needs of teachers and students.
For the project named SILENT CODING; from Turkey, Estonia, hearing impaired students from Spain and Portugal and was planned 5 LTT with the participation of their teachers.
Two of these activities will be short-term joint staff training, and three will be short-term exchanges of student groups.. Activities and calendar was determined by the joint decision of eTwinnig members.
The first teacher training will be in the Tartu Hiie Kool Hearing Impaired School, which is experienced in robotic coding. The second one was planned to be held in Malaga IES Politécnico, an experienced vocational high school with a special sub-class for the hearing impaired. This school, hosts the robotic coding fair called Malakabot every two years.
4 teachers from each school for staff training activities; 3 students and 3 teachers are planned to participate in student activities. Students are disabled and between the ages of 11-13. For this, a teacher will accompany each student.
March 2021; In Malaga, Scratch and Tinkercad Programs and 3D printer usage teacher training will take place.
May 2021; In Madeira, students will present the games and animations they previously made in the Scratch Program.
October 2021; They will present in Trabzon their designs in Tinkercad program.
February 2022; In Tartu, teachers will receive Edison, Lego Mindstorm EV3 program trainings.
May 2022; In the last LTT activity in Denizli, students will exhibit the robots they made in Edison and Lego Mindstrom EV3 programs.
All trainings will be carried out face to face by specialist trainers.In each activity, mixed teams will be created and they will work together.This; It will strengthen the quality of education, language development of teachers, students’ friendship and solidarity, compliance with EU culture and awareness of EU citizenship.With the project named SILENT CODING, which has a great potential for hearing impaired schools; hearing impaired schools teachers and students will receive robotic coding training, one of the key competences of our time.
project outcomes will enrich school curricula.At the end of the project, participants will be able to make their own games and animations and robots at a simple level.The objectives of the project are:
Exchange of good practices among hearing impaired schools in the EU,Robotic coding training for at least 50% of teachers and students,development of students’ algorithmic and analytical thinking skills.To make the lessons more enjoyable and increase the motivation to attend school by reflecting the robotic coding programs to the curriculum of their schools.
Increasing the level of awareness and awareness of the families about this issue through workshop activities in which parents will also participate,To contribute to the training of equipped and experienced role model teachers in the field of robotic coding.
With the Project in the long term; the visibility, recognition, quality, level of internationalization and attractiveness of partner schools will increase.New robotic coding projects will be carried out with other hearing impaired schools in the EU countries for the exchange of outputs and good practices,In this process, more advanced robotic coding programs will can be included in the curriculum.At the end of the project, teachers and students; with the Tinkercad Program and 3D printer, Mindstrom EV3 programs; will be able to produce course materials for the school curriculum and especially Science and Mathematics lessons and develop it for the following years.
The knowledge and experience gained by hearing impaired students at the end of the project will increase their ability to compete with their normal peers. With the new digital skills they have gained, they will be able to improve themselves in secondary and higher education institutions.
This will contribute to their proper employment.All the activities carried out will be turned into e-magazine and e-book and presented to the hearing impaired schools in the EU.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164709 Eur

Project Coordinator

YESILKÖY ISITME ENGELLILER ORTAOKULU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• IES Politécnico Jesús Marín
• Tartu Hiie Kool
• CAMLIK ISITME ENGEILER ORTAOKULU
• Escola Básica 2.º e 3.º Ciclos dos Louros