YOUNG EUROPEANS THINK. DO. KNOW. ASSESS. Erasmus Project

Project Title

YOUNG EUROPEANS THINK. DO. KNOW. ASSESS.

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)

Project Summary

The objectives of the project “YOUNG EUROPEANS THINK. DO. KNOW. ASSESS” are related to the development of thinking skills through Mdia Literacy and the context of Cultural Heritage. The social and educational value of Cultural Heritage and develpment of basic skills are priorities of this year’s Erasmus program. The development of key skills is facilitated by Formative Assessment, which runs through the whole project.
The main objectives in this project:
1) Raise awareness of many forms and contents of Media messages that we encounter in everyday life order to help students recognize how the media filter their perceptions and beliefs, shape the popular culture and influence personal choices. Students can learn how to read between the lines so that they can understand exactly what music videos, movies, and other forms of communication that reach youth are saying to them.
2)To promote critical thinking skills and creative problem solving to become reasonable users and information producers; to improve methodology of Formative Assessment.
3) Developing ICT skills and creativity. During the project students will make video, photo, audio materials in all involved countries that will be used by other students and teachers in the future education process at school.
4) Five mobilities – it is a chance to expand our friendship and cooperation to a new level and make it more purposeful. The partner school’s students exchange will help to maximize and widen their and teacher’s knowledge, skills and experience about Media Literacy and Cultural Heritage. This will help the persons involved in the project become more active in future – in their working life.
The active participants of the project are 120 students and 30 teachers from schools at Slovenia, Finland, Germany, Estonia, Latvia. Schoolchildren aged 14-18 (grades 7-11).
Key activities:
1) one active Project day each second month in each school topractic Media Literacy and Formative Assesment;
2) four mobilities that develop project work in international teams; creates new content, video, audio etc.;
3) project planning and evaluation meetings, also online in the eTwinning environment;
4) mutual observation of lessons, conducting lessons at a partner school, exchange of good practice on forms of Formative Assessment and examples of envolving feedback;
5) dissemination activities, teachers` and students`conferences, parents meetings, school parties;
6) three days of study only for teachers to understand the key issues of the project (Media Literacy, Formative Assessment and Cultural Heritage) and to acquire new knowledge so that more in-depth learning can be achieved during the project.
Methodology: let’s use the learning approaches already learned in the previous projects: School outside (SOS), inquiry based learning (IBL), and learn new ways of different thinking strategies: interpreting, analyzing and evaluating text. Learning Activity Methods – Project Day – selected because it develops pupils’ planning, research, collaboration, and decision-making skills.
Results:
1) The experience gained during project days and mobilities in Media Literacy and Cultural Heritage activities will form the habits to make a proper view to current situation or problem.
2) The Student’s e-Guide book to Media Literacy (made by students)
3) The Teacher’s e-Guide book to Media Literacy: Critical Thinking, Assessment and Evaluation, integrating Media Literacy across the Curriculum in English and nacional languages with anotation in English.
Impact:
1) Pupils and teachers use the e-Guide books created in Media Literacy and Cultural Heritage as learning materials for other pupils in the coming school years. It is expected that the students strengthen their sense of belonging to the European Union and increase their expectations towards their school experiences, which consequently will reflect in their academic results. The project affects students throughout the school as teachers work with formative assessment in the in the classroom and the school goes to the same goal together. Other teachers will also use the e-Guidebook of formative assessment in everyday teaching.
2) After each day of the project, activities will be evaluated using different types of evaluation: self assessment, mutual and group assessment, focus group disscussions. We will use Google Drive questionnaires for teachers and students to evaluate mobility. At the end of the project, we will also assess the impact on other school pupils and teachers, to conclude that the objective has been achieved.
Participation in the project contributes to the qualitative development of the school, which is one of the motivational aspects of all the participating schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 151030 Eur

Project Coordinator

Pumpuru vidusskola & Country: LV

Project Partners

• Toholammin lukio
• Osnovna sola Valentina Vodnika Ljubljana
• Luunja Secondary School
• Montessorischule Ingolstadt