The project "Cooperation of European schools to produce, use and disseminate Open Educational Resources with the use of ICT" will be run by four high schools. The Polish school coordinating the project - "General High School No. 14 in Poznan", and partners: "Bolvadin Anadolian" - a state general high school in Turkey, "Economic Technological High School of Tourism" from Romania and technical high school with a culinary , touristic and economical profile from Italy "IIS - "VIALE ADIGE". The implementation of the project will last 24 months. At this time, we plan to carry out: - 4 three-day Transnational Project Meetings (3 staff from each school, one meeting in each of the partner country) - 4 short-term (lasting five days) student exchange mobilities (10 students and 3 adults from each location, one meeting in each of the partner country) - we are going to produce 7 Intelectual Outputs significant in terms of quality and coverage. We will disseminate these and all other products of the project on a regular basis in a variety of ways, but especially during the multiplier events. During the project also other measures will be taken to achieve the project goals. Participants and recipients of our project will be: students and their parents, teachers, local communities, local and central government as well as non-governmental organizations. About 75 people will be directly involved in the work on the project and the mobilities, including students, teachers and staff of all partner schools. Indirectly about 10 000 people. They will be all people who will be engaged in the work on the project, people we will reach through the dissemination activities, and peolpe who will be recipients of our open educational resources. Methodology (working methods) used during the project include: workshops, training, participant observation, discussion, brainstorming, project work, analysis of activities, analysis of documents. The partner group includes institutions that have proved wider interest in the implementation of innovation in the learning process through achieving specific objectives, using Erasmus plus. The idea for the project arose in part from the need for the more significant development, but also from the passion of all teachers and staff. In the center of our project is a high school student. A "digital native" (Mark Prensky) - a person who needs a learning environment rich in all kinds of different media, a person who by constant contact with the technology absorbs and processes knowledge in a different way than " digital immigrants" - adults, people for whom learning to use technology is as difficult as learning a foreign language. The overall aim of this project stems from understanding the need to build a bridge between digital natives and digital immigrants, between students and teachers. Hence, the main objective of our project is to use technology to make the development of our students more efficient and creative. We want to learn how to bridge the gap that separates us from our students, we want to share good practices and experiences. During the project we will be trained, we will organize object lessons, workshops using ICT, we will create and use Open Educational Resources, create and conduct interactive games and city bike tours using multimedia guidebooks and interactive maps, etc. In addition, we wish to awaken in our students the need for personal development. Our goal is to reduce the students' and teachers' communication barriers and to increase language skills. We hope to make pupils and teachers more open to other cultures, to promote valuable European values, and the ability to work in a diverse group in terms of language and customs. Planned results: - increase in the language competence and independence for both the students and the teachers - openness to the culture and customs of other countries - improving knowledge about the culture, history and traditions of the partner countries - an increase in self-esteem - improvement of the professional image of the teacher - increase of competence in ICT - enriching teachers' working methods - increased motivation for further development of students and teachers - improvement of the academic performance of students - learning tools for self-study - learning the methods of learning in the partner countries - becoming more attractive future emploee on the labor market - improving entrepreneurial skills. Long term benefits will be seen in the activities of the people who are students today but in the future they will have a real impact on European cooperation, partnership and integration despite all the differences that will not separate, but inspire.
The project "Cooperation of European schools to produce, use and disseminate Open Educational Resources with the use of ICT" is run by four high schools. The Polish school coordinating the project - General High School No. 14 in Poznan, and partners: Bolvadin Anadolu Lisesi - a state general high school in Turkey, Liceul Tehnologic Economic de Turism Iaşi from Romania and technical high school with a culinary , touristic and economical profile from Italy Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Stendhal. The main objective of the project was a broadly defined development of the students and the teachers of all partner schools, especially as ICT, mobile devices and modern technology are concerned. Creating the project we intended to increase the level of education, develop the participants' social and linguistic skills, enable free access to different sources of knowledge and equalize opportunities. We believe such progress is not possible nowadays without using the trends prevailing in today's world of education. If the teacher is supposed to successfully face the challenges of contemporary world they must not turn away from the direction it s heading. What is more, cooperation within such kind of a project does not only open both the students and the teachers to new possibilities and tools, it also broadens their linguistic and cultural horizons. In our project we managed to carry out the following activities: - 4 three-day Transnational Project Meetings, - 4 short-term (lasting five days) student exchange mobilities - we created 7 Intellectual Outputs - we organized Multiplier Events To accomplish all the project goals efficiently, we engaged the staff members and the students in many interesting activities between the mobility periods. - during the first months of the project we organized the project logo contest - each month all partner schools issued a multimedia monthly magazine in Glogster Edu. The magazine was a summary of all the activities carried out during a given month. - we conducted research projects such as "Teenagers' World" or "Project Journal". The projects were implemented in international groups to develop students soft skills, like negotiating skills, cooperation skills and of course language skills. - students also took part in an: "Erasmus+ short film contest", which was a resume of the first year of the project. - during each mobility we announced winners of the best multimedia posters - resumes of the mobility. - mobility participants cooperated together sharing their work in Google tools. - within the 24 - month project teachers created a lot of relevant open educational resources, which were made available to a wide audience on free licenses. - students and teachers communicated by eTwinning platform and social networking sites. Thanks to this, we were able to promote the project and the idea of Erasmus + programme itself efficiently. - we organized demonstration lessons, ICT workshops, we created and implemented interactive city games, bike trips based on the multimedia tour guides we produced, and many other things. We believe we managed to reach the following goals: - increase in the language competence and independence for both the students and the teachers - openness to the culture and customs of other countries - improving knowledge about the culture, history and traditions of the partner countries - an increase in self-esteem - improvement of the professional image of the teacher - increase of competence in ICT - enriching teachers' working methods - increased motivation for further development of students and teachers - improvement of the academic performance of students - learning tools for self-study - learning the methods of learning in the partner countries - becoming more attractive future employee on the labor market - improving entrepreneurial skills. We tried to reach as many recipients as possible. At first we designed the project internet website www.moderneducation.eu. We used social media, the schools internet websites, the eTwinning platform, Edmodo, Glogster Edu and many other educational websites, media and newsletters to reach that goal. We could feel the positive feedback from the very beginning but now when the whole two years of the project finished we are fully aware of the benefits we gained. We know the project made us far more attractive educational facilities. We were granted the eTwinning Quality Label for "a perfectly organized project with a great topic, well organized international cooperation and interesting outputs". Moreover, our school managed to set up one more class, which truly is the sign of a success in the period of population decline.