TRavelling In a digital Pedagogy and Sharing in a Project of EuropeAn Knowledge Erasmus Project

Project Title

TRavelling In a digital Pedagogy and Sharing in a Project of EuropeAn Knowledge

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The Var Department, competent as regards secondary schools, from their building up to their functioning, including their financing and the management of educational projects, acknowledged the necessity of developing the learning of foreign languages.
Actually,considering the economic context of the territory with a job market orientated towards tourism, boating and the international, it is necessary for the future labour force of this territory to master foreign languages. In this context, from 2012 to 2016, the Var Department offered activities in this field relating to non-formal teaching and as an addition to lessons ,in order to arouse the motivation of young people to learn languages and improve their professional insertion.
However, what was missing to this device was the notion of European identity by young people. Without this concept, it was difficult for teachers to motivate their pupils in learning foreign languages. This project, more global on a geographical level as well as on the level of the teachers involved and the duration of the project, could not have been carried out outside a European partnership. So, in 2016, the Var Department,decided, in the continuity of this process, to get involved in an Erasmus + strategic Partnership combining language learning and the use of digital technologies. The Department thus established a partnership with the Lanzarote Administration of Education (Canary Islands, Spain) as the two territories face the same economic issues. 3 secondary schools from Var and 3 secondary schools from Lanzarote were involved. The aim was to compare language teaching methods and the use of digital technologies in both countries. For that, the pupils and teachers of each secondary school worked on a common project, the development of a trilingual tourist guide intended for teenagers. All along the project, the teachers from Var and the Canaries exchanged about their methods thanks to numerical devices and school trips.The teachers learnt from the comparison of their methods with those of the partner country and put the results of this comparison to good use in their teaching. Concerning the study of teaching methods and the development of digital technologies, the Department associated the Toulon « Institut Supérieur de l’Electronique et du Numérique » (Electronics and Digital Technologies Superior Institute). They brought their expertise in digital technologies and provided a sociology research teacher who studied the teachers’ methods in that subject .
In the field of tourism , the « Lanzarote Society for external promotion »was associated in order to allow the participants to have access to tourist tools and then promote the guide.
The group of pupils involved in each secondary school remained the same during the 2 years of the project.
These pupils became conscious of the interest of mastering foreign languages and of the usefulness of the numerical devices for a use other than leisure. They went on school trips in order to discover their own territory and make other people discover it .All along the project, activities were organised in class and outside, allowing the pupils to combine the use of foreign languages and numerical devices.
The study realized by the sociologist puts forward these different aspects. A Var and Lanzarote trilingual digital tourist guide made by the pupils and intended for young people was produced.
The aim on the long term is to promote an optimal use of digital technologies in teaching and to make young people aware of the opportunities offered by these digital technologies apart from the usual use they make of them, and of the interest of mastering languages.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 183520 Eur

Project Coordinator

Département du Var & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Consejería de Educación y Universidades del Gobierno de Canarias
• Instituto de Educación Secundaria YAIZA
• INSTITUTO DE EDUCACION SECUNDARIA LAS SALINAS
• Collège Ravel
• Promoción Exterior de Lanzarote, S.A.
• CEO ARGANA
• Collège Daudet