THE WORLD IS BIGGER THAN WHAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN Erasmus Project

Project Title

THE WORLD IS BIGGER THAN WHAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The World is Bigger than What you See on the Screen has been a project aimed at getting our students to develop the habit of taking a second look on an event or the news they come across on social networks, TV, internet or other communication means that are constantly at their disposal, thanks to their access to mobile devices. To reach this aim, we fostered the students’ critical thinking skills using the same tools they do and other they may encounter in nowadays globalized world.
The project group consisted on six schools: two private schools from Spain and Czech Republic, three high schools from Greece, Poland and Turkey and also a vocational high school from Germany, all of them with students between 12-18. The six partners had previous experience in a variety of fields and Erasmus projects. Spanish school coordinated the project with the help of the Turkish team, thanks to the experience they got together during the development of the finalized KA219 project “Following the footprints of the Emperors” that was coordinated by Turkish team and also contributed to develop creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication skills, among other specific aims of that project. Polish school led the activities that had to do with animation, Germany was responsible for mobile phone applications and webpage, Czech partners shared their experience on audiovisual areas (filming, photography), Greek team contributed with their abilities with the use of ICT’s and creativity, responsible for the project’s magazine.
Our activities were planned within a scheme of search, learn and create. Before the meetings, we led our students to do research, hold interviews and make surveys about the decided topic in order to get the main idea of the subject. For example, we made a survey on media and ethic before the meeting in Turkey, a search about advertisements before Czech Republic, a search about stereotypes and prejudice before Greece, a social media search before Germany, a search on the biggest disinformation events, an interview with immigrants before Spain and a search on the biggest social or charity campaigns before Poland.

We held five teaching-learning-training activities in Spain, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and Greece during which we carried out activities in order to deepen the basic knowledge we got through our searches, surveys and interviews by comparing the results. Besides, these meetings were an opportunity to develop our students’ creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and also team working skills, via the workshops and activities such as graffiti, mosaics, escape rooms, video on emojis, Geo Caching, code writing or preparing an advertisement, among others. During these activities they worked in teams consisting on students from different countries in order to create a handicraft or ICT product.
These meetings were also chances for our teachers to develop their professional proficiency through the workshops and seminars on media literacy, photography, Web 2.0 tools, mobile phone applications in class, innovative-active methodologies and also the job shadowing on Google Class. Also, our teachers had to do homework, preparing lesson materials using the knowledge they got during these activities.
Besides, we had different critical thinking activities, including contributions to blogs where students shared their opinions and discussed about some daily topics.
Another challenge for our students to develop their critical thinking skills was making critical evaluation after meetings such as comparing their own school with a utopia school, having PMI (plus, minus and interesting points) on a social media site, or critical evaluation of the general attitude to immigrants.
After the meetings, the students that attended them also had homework: they had to share their experiences on new or developed skills with their school mates and guide them to create a product using the new skills, such as creating an honest logo, a poster on national stereotypes, an animation on emojis or an animation on artists who had effect on society.
The project also included cooperation with under school age groups to detect how many trademarks they could recognize, in order to see the media’s effect on them, an activity of critical thinking with children on what if – fairy tales, daily life challenges, discussion and contest of comics and animations in partner schools that was carried out thorough the project in order to disseminate the project in the community.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 139430 Eur

Project Coordinator

COLEGIO VIRGEN DE LA ROSA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Stredni odborna skola multimedialni a propagacni tvorby, s.r.o.
• Gimnazjum nr 1 z Oddzialami Dwujezycznymi im. Roberta Schumana
• 6 GEL KAVALAS
• Tarsus Borsa Istanbul Sehit Umut Sami Sensoy Anadolu Lisesi
• Berufliches Schulzentrum Amberg