Social Media for Educational Purposes Erasmus Project

Project Title

Social Media for Educational Purposes

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

This project answers a common need to develop these competencies in our school environment. The Internet is one of the greatest additions to our lives and we take full advantage of it. Parents, in their struggle for existence career, neglect their children, don’t have enough time to listen, share their joys%sorrows, guide them. In many cases, children seek refuge in the virtual world, feeling the Internet makes their life easier, empowered. Being liked, gaining excellence in games, feeling equal&filling empty time fills the void of adolescents with deficient offline social skills.
This project approaches social&civic EU key competencies because our students need to understand how they can attain personal&social well-being through a healthy lifestyle. These include personal, interpersonal&intercultural competence and cover behaviours necessary to participate in an effective&constructive way in social&working life. Acquiring civic competence will allow them to
engage effectively with others in the public domain, and display solidarity&interest in solving problems affecting the local&wider community.
Objectives
This partnership intends, through European cooperation, to make pupils aware of the need to rationally, efficiently&safely use the Social Media, preventing school abandonment. It promotes the learning to learn the key competence-the ability to organize one’s own learning, including through effective management of time&information. This includes one’s awareness of learning process&needs. Thus, our students can gain, process and assimilate new knowledge&skills, seek and make use of guidance
Participants
1. Regarding LTTAs: All partners have chosen 24+8 mobilities, so our partnership brings a minimum
of 192 mobilities. From previous experience, this number is usually exceeded.Students&teachers will
participate in meetings in partner countries&work in multicultural teams, according to planned
activities. The partnership is a chance for all to participate, work, see, compare&learn in a multicultural environment, in a foreign country.
Methodology
All partners will involve actively: taking part in project reunions, working in multicultural teams in
planned activities, evaluating project progress&impact, sharing experiences&best practices, plan next
activities. Project’s coordinator will monitor fulfilment of the tasks, collaborating with the people responsible for all the teams.
Results and Impact
Impact on students:
-Awareness&improvement of Social Media(SM)safe, rational use
-Awareness of SM addiction danger&effects
-Development of social&civic skills, self-esteem, critical thinking,creativity&synthesis
-Enhancement of healthy&accountable alternatives to SM
-Hobbies exploitation for talent development
Teachers:
-Professional portfolio enhancement with extracurricular activities(competitions,shows,photo exhibitions, campaigns for healthy&responsible lifestyle)
-Digital skills’improvement-Web 2.0 tools
-Native language&English skills’improvement
School:
-Local,national&international school image improvement
-The increase of attractiveness, students’number&competitiveness, implementing new teacher strategies
-New approaches’introduction to institutional development&resource management
-EU projects experience gain
-Extracurricular offer diversification
-European dimension’s consolidation in education, active European citizenship promotion
Wider lifelong learning community:
-Enrichment of other schools with new teaching strategies
-Other schools’ benefits by using disseminated end products
-Promotion of lifelong learning&school application for EU projects in other schools
Community:
-Parents’awareness of SM dangers& rational use need
-Local,national&international image promotion
-Improvement of school-community relationship, community’s confidence

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 125348 Eur

Project Coordinator

Djani Rodari private school & Country: BG

Project Partners

• YAVUZ SELIM ORTAOKULU
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA NR.1, COMARNA
• 5th Gymnasium of Iraklio Attikis
• Publiczna Szkola Podstawowa im. Mikolaja Kopernika w Tlusccu