The project Flip&Movie has the aims of joining and integrating the present-day necessity of better utilizing the ICT and of encouraging in young people and in the teachers the creativity, the innovation and a European dimension of learning. It arises from the need of a literacy in the mother- tongue and in foreign languages in order to promote the increase of communication skills that imply the textual, fluent, pragmatic, sociolinguistic, strategic competence in coherence with the principles of an active citizenship and with the objectives ET 2020. The project intends that children pursue the media literacy: knowledge acquisition, ability and required competences in order to use and to interpret media, a critical literacy that involves also analysis, valuation competence and critical consideration. This is a project that wants to come out from classical, national ways of teaching and wants to open both partner schools and local community where schools are settled ,made of networks,contacts,families and institution, to the internationalization and modernization of the school. By using ICT in the teaching method, FLIP&MOVIE promotes the recovery and the consolidation, during the phase of learning, of basic competences absolute for the understanding and the “real “application of the teaching method for competences. The wish is to go on with the European project Comenius Regio “Leg@mi di parole” that, coordinated by the Regional Scholastic Office Abruzzo has produced in 2013 3 volumes of the formative experience adhering to the campaign “Europe loves reading” promoted by the European Commission of Education Androula Vassiliu. Furthermore with FLIP&MOVIE the project of experimentation “Class Smart Future “will go on - one among 25 involved schools in Italy from Samsung in collaboration with a network of University - in which the innovative methodology of EAS (Episode of Learning Situated ) is practiced. The partnership was build up through sharing a project that has clear aims in the framework of school institutional network with European projects and with eTwinning Action experiences. The coordinator is Istituto Comprensivo Pescara 8 (Italy), the other partner schools are : Osnovna Škola Bartula Kašića Zadar in Zadar( Croatia), Základna škola smaterskou školou Želiarska in Košice (Slovakia) ,Daugavpils 3 vidusskola in Daugavpils (Latvia) , Instituto de Educación Secundaria Palomares in Palomares of Rio (Spain) : schools with international experiences, open to innovation and co-operation, with interests in the same themes and sharing the following objectives: 1.development of the linguistic literacy as strategy of preventing abandonment and scholastic dispersion; 2.development of a permanent learning dimension through the integration of languages and formal / no formal teaching ; 3.promotion of procedures and of exchanges of good practices so that everyone can acquire the fundamental competences necessary to exercise citizenship rights ;4.encouragement of creativity and innovation also through the active and conscious use of digital skills; 5.creation of occasions of real and virtual mobility of pupils in order to improve the communication through the knowledge of the mother-tongue and at least of another community language and putting into practice the co-operation through sharing and exchanging of good practices also for situations of pupils with specific needs; 6.multilingualism ,one among the priority of the European project and a strong symbol of the ambition of European Union to be united in the diversity. The activities are as follows: training and exchange of practices and teaching successful strategies through common labs and exchange of pupils ,achievement of innovative teaching ways ,creation of a logo and of a web space of project, creation of outputs: training kit, collection of stories coming from all European countries, creation of an APP for children, interactive documentary, quarterly newsletter. Through Flip&Movie and underlying products the aim is promoting the co-operation among networks and local,transnational organization, developing and consolidating the sense of European membership, exercising life skills and improving linguistic, digital and relational competences of children and teachers, involving parents in the reading and creative writing passion. The purpose of the project as results is that the suggested methodologies, monitored, documented and lived in the process, would be in the meantime transferable to other schools of the region, of the national territory and in the same way at international level. Among expected results, there is the transfer of results and of methodologies and the transverse collaboration with other subjects in order to increase the experiences and to let others benefit of European projects.
“FLIP&MOVIE” project arose from the need to find solutions to the problem of poor reading comprehension on behalf of the pre-adolescents and adolescents, it was highlighted in dierent occasions at national and international levels. The project wanted to experiment incisive ways to encourage reading and communicative skills and to develop digital and media literacy in pupils because these skills are essential in today’s life for the formation of the critical thinking and the building of an active and conscious citizen. It also wanted to continue and widen the European project Comenius Regio “Leg@mi di parole” coordinated by the Regional Direction of Abruzzo and to give continuity to “Class Smart Future” project promoted in Italy by Samsung in collaboration with a University Network in which the innovative teaching methodology of EAS (Learning Episodes Located) is taught. The partnership was built involving schools with European design experiences which are active in the eTwinning Action, open to innovation and cooperation, with a common interest in the theme. The Istituto Comprensivo Pescara 8 (Italy) was the Coordinator, the partner schools were: Osnovna Škola Bartula Kašića Zadar in Zadar (Croatia), Daugavpils 3 Vidusskola in Daugavpils (Latvia), Základná škola s materskou školou Želiarska in Košice (Slovakia), Instituto de Educación Secundaria Palomares in Palomares del Río (Spain). In Italy the project took advantages of the collaboration of the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara and, in particular, of the Scientific advice of a Professor of Children’s Literature, Ilaria Filograsso. The partners shared goals and operational strategies focused on development of linguistic literacy as strategy in order to prevent the school abandoning and drop out; development of a lifelong learning dimension; promotion and exchange of good practices to allow pupils to acquire the fundamental skills to exercise citizenship rights; encouragement of creativity and innovation also through the awareness of use of digital skills; development of communication through the creation of real and virtual mobility for pupils and the knowledge of a community language: the English language. It can be said with satisfaction that all these goals were widely achieved because the project represented a continuity of very positive and enriching experiences which improved the quality of schools and communities so it is possible to think of a continuation and expansion of the project with further collaborations and networks in the respective territories. The international dimension of the whole project has outlined a very important added value to the school oering, thanks to the establishment of the so-called European class that was made up of the deserving pupils who, supported by their families, lived the “experience” with an extraordinary involvement and a contagious enthusiasm. Throughout the life of the project, they took part in innovative workshops on reading and creative writing, in mother tongue and in English, enhancing transversal, linguistic and digital skills; Headteachers and teachers of the schools involved had the opportunity to work in a transnational context too, attending formative workshops, laboratories and seminars organized and shared through a dense communication via emails, WhatsApp and Skype Meetings. The school communities involved in this project took part in a fruitful exchange of ideas, educational experiences and insights which helped to improve the professional competences and the relational dynamics in the light of lifelong learning, laying the foundations for future collaborations. The common work of partners has materialized through the realization of two Intellectual Outputs: the training kit “Be happy 2 Read & Write” that consists of a theoretical and didactic repertoire for reading education in Europe and “StoryInventor”, an educational game for the creation of digital stories. In occasion of the Multiplier Event on 24th May the video “Europe inside” was shown. It wanted to sensitise the sense of belonging to Europe on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Treaties of Rome and the 30 years of Erasmus. The cast was made up of the pupils involved in the mobilities carried out during the two years of the project, these pupils played the most interesting moments of the planning and the European Citizenship. The video can be very useful for the promotion and spread of further Erasmus+ Projects. The dissemination of reflections, good practices, and the works realized addressed to a wider audience, will be a good point of reference for those people who deal with education and themes related to reading, it can be also very useful for those people who have the dicult task to approach children, teenagers and adults to the world of books.