“WAY TO GO-paths of life” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“WAY TO GO-paths of life”

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The whole project “Way to Go-paths of life” was a mosaic of different learning environments which focused on three very important paths-aspects of life that is History, Culture and Nature further analyzed into issues of art, music, traditions, cuisines, sports life and healthy living. All these elements compose everyone’s Tree of Life which starts growing from their roots which are the historic background of their families, their hometown and their countries. Apart from that, strong bonds with Culture and Nature make this tree even more robust and fruitful. The learning environments we created during our project’s lifetime were permeated with the principles of “Lifelong learning” and “Learning to learn” through a new perspective of more dynamic and attractive ways of teaching and learning and ICT-based methodologies. These new innovative methods are in alignment with the principles of the “New Curriculum in Finland”.
Through the exploitation of mobile technology and ICT tools both teachers and students got involved in a game-like process of problem-solving, synthesizing information, using their imagination and critical thinking in order to reach the expected learning outcomes. Students actively participated, increased their sense of initiative, shared thoughts, collaborated with their peers in different learning environments and marked their own learning routes along this journey instead of being unappealingly spoon-fed with a pile of information. It was our aim to convey the message that marking your own route in life in such a creative and inventive way can make you an independent thinker and a resourceful entrepreneur capable of dealing with the challenges of life.
There were nine partner schools: two from Finland which was the coordinating country and the other ones were from Iceland, Slovakia, Croatia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and Greece. One of the schools was vocational while the others were general secondary schools. Most partner schools had participated in previous multilateral or bilateral Comenius partnerships, and other European Union granted projects while three of them participated for the first time.
Apart from the creation of the project website, the logo, the blog and a picture gallery as well as making digital posters, there was a variety of courses and ICT teaching. Teachers and students got acquainted with new ICT-based methods and new principles in the educational process.
With the use of these methods students and teachers of each country
– walked the “path from home to each partner school” marking these routes on maps with QR-codes, behind which there was more information about the history of those places (facts, pictures, videos)
– walked along different kinds of paths in nature, gathered material such as photos, sounds, videos and samples and processed it to make presentations
– made presentations about music, dance, food, natural sights, sports, art of their countries using various ICT tools as well as relevant Kahoot games
-got involved in preparing traditional dishes in each country
-were involved in various breakfast environments from different countries of EU and made posters about typical breakfast of each partner country.
-made culture activity maps with information about art, crafts, music, sport, food and literature of different parts of their country
-learned techniques in craftwork workshops related to the culture of each country and got to know customs and traditions.
-got involved in geocaching activities along the “path of history”
-took part in sports activities to walk successfully on the “path of sports”
– made calendars with images depicting highlights of each meeting acting as a final exhibition of the whole project
-created travel diaries after each mobility
Also, certain dissemination activities were implemented such as media coverage and organising meetings with teachers of other educational communities to share project results. Project results were demonstrated on the Erasmus+ project results platform.
Through multicultural dialogue students became even more aware of belonging to a broader European family responding to the EU values of active citizenship and intercultural solidarity exorcising xenophobia, racism and social isolation. Both students’ and teachers’ participation increased their motivation for language and digital competence through the extensive use of ICTs. Our partnership enhanced a more integrated use of ICTs in education, the development of students’ transversal skills and student-centred learning contributing to innovative and more attractive ways of teaching and inspiring both teachers of the participating schools and those of other school communities to adopt new methodologies, raise their students’ motivation and fight professional stagnation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 232810 Eur

Project Coordinator

Moision koulu & Country: FI

Project Partners

• INSTITUTO DE EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA “PROFESOR JULIO PÉREZ”
• Srednja skola Bedekovcina
• Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale Alessandro Volta
• Gymnazium
• Perniön Yhteiskoulu
• Holabrekkuskoli
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