The project T@ndem, focuses on supporting digital uses children by the establishment of an educational continuum between schools and families through a educational approach of media education, in coordination with specialized agencies in media education.Background and ObjectivesToday, media use are not confined to the private sphere of the family. They fall in the school's field. This represents a clear challenge to e-skills development, both technical, social, critical but also creative, with teachers and parents.This is why the T@ndem project is developing the following specific objectives:1. Identify the expectations and educational needs of digital media stakeholders (parents, teachers, children).2. To promote collaboration between teachers and parents.3. Promote the development of digital media literacy in continuity (educational continuum)4. Develop educational itineraries cover digital use of children in parenting support.5. Promote an inclusive approach taking into account the diversity of family models and parenting choices.6. Develop expertise and educational own roles of each stakeholder (parent, teacher)Number and profile of participantsThe project will cover various public levels, and receive a total of more than 3000 people:- Parents members of parents associations: 450 requested for the investigation, 150 involved in the activities, 300 participants to dissemination events,- Teachers: 75 asked to the survey, 30 involved in activities, 300 participants in the dissemination events- Children, final beneficiaries: 1125 research participants and 600 indirectly affected.- The school community more generally (Director, Association of parents, other teachers)- Media education resource centers, support to parenting, etc. affected by the spread of resources free of copyright.Description of activities and methodologyInitially, the different needs and expectations of teachers and parents will be identified by a survey qualitative (interviews, focus group), complemented by a review of the literature.Then educational itineraries will be designed to meet the needs identified. They consist of a series of activities articulated to each other that will reflect the variety of family / parenting situations. These itineraries will implement the approaches of media education and will require the cooperation of the teacher and parents.To carry out this project, a liaison notebook will play the role of bridge between school and family. Finally, a catalog of educational itineraries will be made from the variety of modules offered within each country.Description of the impact and outcomesThe expected impact will initially involve partner agencies that will develop collaborative mechanisms, expertise and network to exchange them through the three years of this project. At the heart of the project, teachers will have the opportunity to enter more ICT in their classrooms and accompany this process with the adoption of innovative pedagogies. On their side, parents will be aware of the issues of an accompanying digital practices of their children. These two public also will experiment with a collaborative methodology that can be extended to other types of learning. Beyond these tandems, the school community will be impacted by this approach to educational continuum, and especially students, who are the ultimate beneficiaries.Potential long-term benefits.The project is mainly built on the long-term. Intellectual products will be reused and exploited later by the inventory on the expectations and needs of parents and teachers, through the educational itineraries that will inspire other tandems of teachers and parents, and through an online platerform which will be posted in a long-term perspective. In addition, the project partners will meet in a social network to define (Linked'in, Facebook) to continue sharing extensions and impact of the project beyond the three years.
The Tandem project focuses on accompanying the digital uses of children by setting up an educational continuum between school and family through pedagogical itineraries of media education that take place partly in class partly at home.This project is implemented by a consortium composed on one hand of media education ressources centers : Média Animation (Belgium), Fréquence Ecoles (France), Zaffiria (Italy) ; and on the other hand, federation of parents associations or family centers : UFAPEC (Belgium), FCPE69 (France) and Valmarecchia and Conca Unions (Italy). Today media use are not confined to the private sphere of the family. They fall in the school's field. This represents a clear challenge to e-skills development, both technical, social, critical but also creative. This is why the Tandem project is developing the following specific objectives:1. To identify the expectations and educational needs of digital media stakeholders (parents, teachers, children).2. To impulse collaborations between teachers and parents.3. To promote the development of digital media literacy through an educational continuum4. To develop educational itineraries related to digital uses of children in the perspective of parenting and schooling support.5. To promote an inclusive approach taking into account the diversity of family models and parenting choices.6. To highlight expertise and educational roles own of each stakeholder (parent, teacher)As a first step, a phase of analysis of the different needs and expectations of teachers and parents was implemented through a literature review and focus groups leading with targeted audiences. This produced a synthesis document that emerged as a resource-document for the development of the further educational strategies.Then 30 digital and media education pedagogical itineraries were designed to address these identified needs through co-design sessions with parents and / or teachers. These itineraries have been developed as a table of contents within a catalog (O2) and concern about 13 different themes (information searching, emotions and media, cyberbullying, school newspaper production, etc.). They articulate classroom sessions leaded by the teacher and parent-child activities at home.These fully written and documented pedagogical materials have been tested by nearly 700 pilot-tandems of teachers and parents in Belgium, France and Italy. This testing had as support a "Cahier de correspondances" (also called journal of communication, diary, …), in electronic format (Wordpress) or paper which supported the exchanges and the communication between the teacher and the families. This phase of testing has led to a resource site (O3) www.mediatandem.eu which brings together the educational itineraries, as open educational resources, testimonials from teachers, children and parents who participated in the Tandem pilot project as well as methodological and pedagogical resources to support the transportability of "Tandem".Through these various activities, the Tandem project has actively involved 1150 parents through focus groups, co-design sessions for the development of educational itineraries and for the testing of these materials in partnership with teachers. In the same way, 175 primary school teachers were directly involved in the Tandem project activities, including the implementation of the educational itineraries in their class. Finally, final beneficiaries of this project, 870 children took part in the media education pedagogical itineraries set up by tandem teachers-parents.The project impact on the partner organizations is multiple and rich in terms of synergy, development of skills, links with their target audiences. But more specifically, the Tandem methodology makes it possible to provide media education educators with new resources and methods for their future interventions, in schools or in parenting. In the same way, the co-educational system as experimented by the Tandem project can now be taken to other projects such as environmental education, the development of new places in the school, etc. .Reuse or inspiration from the methodology and tools experienced through this project becomes a long-term goal of the Tandem project leaders.