TECHNOLOGY ADDICTION IN ADOLESCENTS Erasmus Project

Project Title

TECHNOLOGY ADDICTION IN ADOLESCENTS

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality and Relevance of Higher Education in Partner Countries; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Nowadays technology is everywhere. Teenagers stare down at their mobiles or keep their eyes glued to a tablet or laptop, instead of observing the world around them. It’s not unusual to see two adolescents seated together on a bus, texting furiously on their mobiles rather than talking to one another. The fact that teens are so dependent on technology makes sense in our world, but it may also lead to negative consequences such as indifference to the real world, anti-socializing, aggression, and academic failure even resulting in early school leaving.

This dependency on technology and its negative effects gave us the idea of preparing a project which aims to deal with it. To justify the argument, first of all, we prepared an online survey and applied it to the students of each partner country.

Almost 500 pupils have joined our online survey the results have revealed the truth once more; most of our pupils are tech addicts and as teachers, we had to make something to deal with or at least to raise awareness about technology addiction.

So, as 6 schools we agreed on the objectives below :

1- Improving awareness within students, teachers, parents, communities of the signs and dangers of the technology addiction and of the problems it involves.
2-Providing tools and instruments for identifying technology addiction and inappropriate use to address this issue better.
3- Drafting the most appropriate strategies to support the use of digitalization without encouraging overuse, based on the exchange of good practices between the partner schools.
4- Improving the English language knowledge and raising the cultural awareness of both students and teachers participating in the project;
5- Promoting the European dimension in education.
6- Increasing the quality of education by reducing the technology dependency of young people, so struggling with early school leaving.
7- Teaching pupils Computer Literacy (the ability to use computers and related technology efficiently).

Our project is anticipated to employ about 100 to 120 students from each school who are also suffering from technology addiction at different rates. About 20 to 25 students and 10 teachers from each school will join the mobilities.

We will divide our topic into 5 categories:

Game Addiction
Social Network and Online Chat Addiction
TV Addiction
Mobile Phone -Tablet PC Addiction
Online Shopping and Cyber Gambling and Cyber Violence Addiction.

The Turkish team will take responsibility for coordination. The details of transportation, accommodation, dissemination, workshop activities, and work sharing will be programmed here.
The Spanish team will work on Game Addiction. They will also be responsible for designing our website and sharing our project outputs there.
Romanian team’s topic will be Social Networks and Online Chat Addiction. The calendar and the posters of the project will be designed there.
TV Addiction will be the Latvian team’s topic. Project t-shirts will be prepared and designed there.
The Bulgarian team’s topic is Mobile Phone and Tablet PC Addiction, at the same time designing screensavers and stickers of the project will be done there.
Finally, the Italian team will be responsible for Online Shopping, Cyber Gambling Cyber Violence, and Cyber Bullying. Pupils will design a school magazine to raise people’s awareness there.

Also, our project will include some activities such as:

Designing project mascot.
Role plays-dramas about each addiction type
Experts’ Advice Days for pupils and parents
Cultural Visit to discover other cultures and customs.
Meetings to inform other students and teachers at schools.
Project Forum part in website for the sustainability of the project goals.

With the project we are aiming to create the impacts below:

Increasing awareness of students regarding digital balance
Using classroom-management tools to help limit digital distractions
Making classroom technology integration deep and engaging to minimize the potential for distractions
Guiding parents
Limiting digital distractions and technology dependency so that improving pupils’ academic success
Improving pupils’ success and feelings of their sense of belongings, thus decreasing early school leaves

Since it is a social topic, We will be able to collaborate with non-governmental and health organizations. Virtual classrooms will continue to work as they did before the approval of the project. The forum part of the project website will allow us to continue to share and to utilize experts’ advice whenever needed.

Boards about ongoing activities, posters, and calendars with all project events in the schools’ halls will continue to inform pupils, teachers, parents, and guests about the function and the aims of TAA.

Lastly, project booklets and e-bulletins will be prepared and distributed to other institutions for dissemination and sustainability of the project goals.

Project Website

https://sites.google.com/view/erasmustaa

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 166617,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Nazilli Mehmet Akif Ersoy Anadolu Lisesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• “Stefan Tsanov”
• Rigas 18 vakara (mainu) vidusskola
• Liceo Daniele Crespi Busto Arsizio
• Liceul Tehnologic Economic “Virgil Madgearu” Iasi
• Instituto Enseñanza Secundaria La Rosaleda