"Connect,Share and Get Enlighted"project consists of 7 partners from Turkey, Italy, Portugal,Slovakia, Poland,Crotia and Bulgaria.The concrete objectives of the partnership are many, but they all stem from one urgent need: to make new generation friendlier.The 4 of the schools are secondary vocational and technical schools ; the other 3 partners are general secondary schools in our project.With the effect of information age,on the one hand information is produced rapidly,on the other hand this information reach us by means of social media.Social media has an important effect in a society by providing them basic knowledge and information on all aspects of a single issue or on various issues of national and international level.The aim of this project is trying to mitigate the negative aspects of social media while improving upon the positive effects in students educational and social life.We will use all sorts of social media by using technology to equip students with skills essential for work and life in a 21st century global society.We will help the students to gain the right social media usage strategies.They will no longer use the media just an entertainment.The project will also be a bridge for every participant to develop EU citizenship .The students themselves will join groupwork activities with their partners across Europe through tasks like contributing to a blog,designing websites,uploading video presentations,and creating Facebook pages for the project.We will focus on key competences and skills and also encourage participation by promoting intercultural dialogues,social inclusion and solidarity.In terms of internationalism,we have chosen our partners from different countries and all have different cultures,from different life styles and from different locations.We believe this will increase our capacity and professionalism at international level.European Union level requires clear leadership and shared vision between authorities and stakeholders.The project includes activities that strenghen the cooperation between partner schools and promote the development ,testing and implementation of innovative practises.Since 21st Century learners need the ability to use data to problem solving and decision making and analytical thinking,the main role of the teenagers is media creators, not just consumers in this project.Making their own movies,preparing quiz shows,shooting documentries,choosing the project logo, questionnaires,giving ideas for the articles of European Newspaper and the presentation of it, and creating online content can help them develop critical thinking, social, technical and artistic skills.And also,through using blogs, chat rooms and becoming involved in message boards, such as on movie or news sites,the students will have a chance to develop their writing and reading skills.At the end of every activity,both the students and the teachers will comment on and meet their European partners via Skype,their facebook pages or Twitter.This wil motivate and engage them to be conscious ad accurate social media users and also, connecting with other partners in other locations will create powerful,authentic and motivating learning experience for the students.English will be the common language for every phase of the project and activities that will provide every participant to improve their foreign language. In joint educational project emphasis is placed upon both the unique and individual, as well as upon shared elements, thus strengthening the idea of a European identity.The project can be a window on the world for every participant and stakeholder because everybody will have new experiences outside their own communities.The activities in the project will stimulate and encourage the students creativity to find new ways for the best solutions.While commenting on,analysing and generating new ideas,they will look at things from different perspectives.Through interaction with friends from different cultures,the students build on their intercultural competences that will help them to react positively to differences and they will enhance the idea of a European identity.This will foster a sense of shared responsibility which is very important for conducting the project successfully.Different personalities,voices, values, and approaches spark interest.And also,the meetings will be the one of the most useful events for both teachers and students communicate in the foreign language.The European Commission fosters multilingualism and language learning because it promote intercultural dialogue and a more inclusive society and help the public to develop a sense of EU citizenship.With project meetings,students perspectives of the world,of different cultures and communities will hopefully change and progress in positive direction.The world will become more accessible and familiar to them and will encourage them to aspire to travel, learn languages and to celebrate different countries.
With the effect of information age,on the one hand information is produced rapidly,on the other hand this information reach us by means of social media.Social media has an important effect in a society by providing them basic knowledge and information on all aspects of a single issue or on various issues of national and international level. CSAGE Project's aim is trying to mitigate the negative aspects of social media while improving upon the positive effects in students educational and social life.CSAGE typically appeared by not having the right knowledge about social media usage as a result of personal, social, economic, geographical, education or family related reasons.Within this framework, the CSAGE project was designed to focus mainly on true social media usage by using different teaching methods under the observation of teachers, parents or other stakeholders. The project consists of 7 partners from Turkey, Italy, Portugal,Slovakia, Poland,Crotia and Bulgaria.The concrete objectives of the partnership are many, but they all stem from one urgent need: to make new generation friendlier.The 4 of the schools are secondary vocational and technical schools ; the other 3 partners are general secondary schools. The participating organizations/schools aimed to promote the students’ professional developments in the field of ICT by collecting relevant information. CSAGE Project tasks' and activities attributed to strenghen the cooperation between partner schools and promote the development ,testing and implementation of innovative practises which helped educators to improve their teaching techniques by building a sense of student achievement and producing relevant educational material through cross-country cooperations .Here are the the main project activities and events which were carried out through either distance or close partner cooperation. - Creating internet platforms like the Project Website ( http://erasmusproject3.wix.com/erasmus) , E-twinning Platform (Connect, Share and Get Enlighted) ,Instagram Account (connect_share_get_enlighted) ,Twitter (@ConnectShare7) and Facebook Group.(Connect, Share and Get Enlighted).Using these platforms the studenst themselves joined groupwork activities like problem solving and decision making with their partners across Europe that hepled them to gain analytical thinking strategies. -21st Century Teenagers Play acted by each of partner countries' students, -Social Media Quiz Shows, -Documentary Films,(The students shooted their own films that reflect their countries and regions,so they were not just the consumers of Social Media) -Online European Newspaper Creating the content of the Online Newspaper helped the students develop critical thinking, social, technial mehnical and artistic skills.And also,through using the website the students and teachers understand the strategies about creating blogs,pages and they became involved in message boards that provide parteners a chance to develop their writing and reading skills with the target language. In conclusion, during the twenty seventh months of the CSAGE project’s implementation, the participating teachers had the opportunity to develop and/or improve their pedagogical skills and expertise with European projects while the participating students practiced teamwork, organized events, sharpened their creativity, communicated with their peers abroad, and, especially, enhanced their sense of belonging as members of European Community.On the other hand,activities that were held allowed the project’s results to be disseminated locally, nationally, and on a European level. In the long run, the project can be a window on the world for every participant and stakeholder because everybody has had new experiences outside their own communities and also the creation of a closely-knit network of European schools interested in dealing with wrong social media usage strategies effectively could be a future benefit.The activities in the CSAGE have stimulated and encouraged the students creativity to find new ways for the best solutions.While commenting on,analysing and generating new ideas,the participants have looked at things from different perspectives through interaction with friends from different cultures,the students build on their intercultural competences. This will enable not only the further development with relevant educational purposes,but also encourage the participants to share their experiences and good practices and establish a longdistance cooperation between teachers across Europe.