Storytelling Learning In Digital Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Storytelling Learning In Digital Europe

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

“Storytelling Learning In Digital Europe SLIDE “- exchange of good practice was Erasmus+ Programme strategic partnership project of five partners’ organisations from Poland, Italy, Spain, Estonia and Slovenia. The primary goal was to develop and reinforced networks, increased our capacity to operate at transnational level, shared and confronted our ideas, practices and methods. It was designed to share experiences and best practices in adult learning and to create innovative methods through training course and worked on project results based on European cooperation.

Motivation to create the project: The Recommendation of the European Parliament and the Council already in 2006 indicated the “digital competence” as one of the eight key competences for lifelong learning and called it the “ability to use with familiar and critical spirit, the technologies of the information society”. According to studies 30% of all Europeans are digitally illiterate (older people, less educated youth, lower income families, migrants, people at risk of social exclusion, etc).

Objectives for SLIDE project : Develop digital competence that refered to the ability to use digital technologies. It involved the confident and critical use of Information Society Technology (IST) for work, leisure and communication. It was underpinned by basic skills in ICT: the use of computers to retrieve, assess, store, produce, present and exchange information, and to communicate and participate in collaborative networks via the Internet. Through the SLIDE partnership we focused on opportunity to teach and learn basic ICT competencies through digital storytelling (ancient stories, local stories or myths that belonged to the adult world) training adult teachers, educators, providers and voluntaries involved in adult education.
In details the Project SLIDE focused to apply the digital storytelling (DST) method in formal and informal adult education context in different places across Europe using the narrative learning method combined with DST method, in this way the narrative learning method became a tool to stimulate the learning of digital skills. SLIDE was a chance to improve media literacy targeted to low- digital skilled adults and seniors, low skilled people, parents and elder people in general, increasing their multiliteracy competencies.

In the project were involved University of The Third Age from Slovenia, non-profit Foundation FIS from Poland with the focus on work with adults endangered of social exclusion, Cultural Organisation from Spain with the adult education profile, NGO from Estonia of adult work with seniors and local minorities and Italian NGO focused on the work with the elderly. All partners had got experiences in non-formal and informal adult teaching on local and international level.

It was 4 international project meetings in Poland, Spain, Estonia and Italy with sharing the best practice in adult teaching and one short-term joint staff training focused on learning and studied digital storytelling methodology for adults. The participating staff of the short-term staff training events were trained how to teach low-skilled adults (elder people, 60+, low-skilled and people from disadvantaged groups) combining both narrative learning and DST method. Therefore, final workshops were organized in the partner countries applying and testing the SLIDE methodology produced by partnership. During the SLIDE training course the participants had the possibility to learn a new way to use DST method as base tool to teach/ learn digital competencies to adult people.

Our project brought added value at EU level through results that were attained by activities carried out in a single country because nobody could not learn and compare the good practices of different countries without living and being a part of it.

Results:
– Data sources included field notes, interviews, and digital stories created by the low-skilled adult group who finished the whole course with learning outputs to the project.
– Learning outcomes such as: a virtual notebook collecting digital stories created by learners during local activities implementation, a video lesson about the SLIDE staff training course implementation, E- Booklet about the project.
-The partner organizations developed and reinforced EU networks for teaching and learning using the DST METHOD, shared ideas and practices, gained knowledge on use apply the DST methods to fill the digital divide across Europe.

Impact on the target groups has been seen on new competences which they were gained after the implemented project activities by using a specific methodology of storytelling. Project results can be used and exploited in the longer-term, especially resources in adult education and storytelling, that are available in the Internet. Because they are e-products, they are constantly added with new materials from project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 59470 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fundacja Integracji Spolecznej FIS & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Slovenska univerza za tretje zivljenjsko obdobje, zdruzenje za izobrazevanje in druzbeno vkljucenost
• EESTI PEOPLE TO PEOPLE
• Estrategia y Organización SA
• LUETEC