SOLE. School in the Clouds. A complementary approach to learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

SOLE. School in the Clouds. A complementary approach to learning

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

Project Summary

Context/Background:
During the eTwinning Conference in Nottingham in June 2015 Sugata Mitra gave a video presentation of his “Hole in the Wall” experiment in India that made him famous and won him a TED Talk award in 2013 for his child driven education ideas. His experiment showed that if children are motivated and given the tools they will teach themselves and each other. This project results from discussions following Sugata Mitras video presentation and is to answer the question about how Sugata Mitra’s methods can be effectively adopted and applied in many different classrooms. Sagrada Família in El Masnou and Da Vinci in Poznan want to start this adventure which will take us a step further in the pedagogical renovation we are in.

Objectives:
To improve our students’ English level with the introduction of cooperative work with our partners through activities during the two-year project.
To increase the feeling of belonging to Europe through the work we will carry out between the two schools.
To develop the students’ skills and abilities to look for unknown information. ICT.
To make the students feel attracted to learn by searching / discovering information.
To make students analyze, evaluate and create rather than remember facts explained by others.
To make teachers act as an adviser, a coach, a motivator

Number and profile of participants:
Two schools involved. Szkola Da Vinci in Poznan, Poland and Sagrada Familia in El Masnou, Spain. Students aged 12-14 will be directly involved. Nine teachers will be directly involved. Overall, as this is a school project, all the students in both schools will be involved.

Description of activities:
Student activities, the ‘Big Questions’, will take place in different subjects, three times per year working the two schools together online. One before Christmas and two beforeJune. These activities will be for students to learn topics which would be part of the curriculum and taught anyway, using the new innovative Sugata Mitra method, with the guidance and coaching of the teachers. As the project develops from activity to activity, over the two years, the level of competence and sophistication will develop. By the end of the two years teaching in this new method should be integral to the schools and an accepted and normal way of teaching. The milestones of the project are the international student activities that take place once a year: a visit to Sagrada Família and a visit to Da Vinci in the two-year life of the project. In these activities students from the two schools will come together. They will receive team training then hold workshops, giving presentations and discussing progress and develop their thoughts on how they should move forward.

Methodology to be used:
At the start of the project, September 2019, two teachers per school will hold a three-day meeting at Sagrada Família where basic procedures will be established. Other meetings will be hold in the following two years to assess and correctly guide the project. Training courses by specialists will also take place. The teachers in each subject will be responsible for the accomplishment of the activities and the assessments. Coordinators will disseminate by inputting to eTwinning and Facebook.

Results/impact envisaged:
The impact on all students should be that they leave school better qualified, more rounded and mature learners who will be more effective contributors to society and whose employment prospects will be enhanced. The continual professional development received by the teachers by doing this project should result in them becoming more effective teachers and deliverers, ahead of and leading other teachers in the use of this innovative teaching method. Everything that will be done will be reported and updated on both eTwinning and Facebook allowing anyone anywhere to access what has been done. we will offer ours schools to other schools so that they can come to us and jobshadow. We will also offer training courses on School Education Gateway.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 38298 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sagrada Família & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Da Vinci