-The aim of our Language School 2.0 project is to create tools that will help any language teacher to efficiently integrate Information Technologies in his/her everyday practices. As we are language teachers, we will mainly focus on apps, programs and pedagogies related to our discipline. We also want to create an online platform where anybody interested in the subject could share his views and experiences.-Context/background: The different schools involved in this project are already using IT tools in their classrooms. Although we are at different levels of integration of these tools, we have the same goal in mind. We want to keep our students at the center of their learning process and we want to help them integrate IT tools in this process as best as we can. Our different pedagogical teams already use IWBs and iPads and some of our colleagues have already followed a special iPad training. We also have "digital coordinators" and network administrators who work hard to familiarize a maximum of our colleagues with present digital practices. Some of the partner schools are already part of an iPad 1:1 program.-Objectives:We want to learn and share a maximum of information about IT tools in the language classroom.We want to centralize that information and make it available to a maximum of people.We want to study if IT tools can improve student motivation.-Participants:Our project will gather four partners. Each country will designate a delegation of approximately four students (ages 12-16) who will have the opportunity to visit all the partner countries once. Each partner country will also designate a team of teachers in charge of the project's coordination. The standard delegation will consist of four students and two teachers. Under these conditions, the envisioned total number of participants will amount to a maximum of 24 people for each meeting.-Activities:Online meetings & communication, social activities.On-the-spot lessons: students will be gathered in groups depending on the host school's policy. They will experience how digital resources are used in different environments and will have the opportunity to give their opinion on the different lessons they have attended.At the end of the project, a general conclusion will be redacted using the most relevant information provided by the partners and the participating students.-Methodology:With precise task allocation, goal-setting and reverse-scheduling, our project will be well-structured from the start. We want to be efficient and transparent. A permanent monthly evaluation will be set up to leave a trace of our progress but also to help us identify our less efficient tactics so we can correct them in the process. As for interpersonal communication, a written moral agreement will be elaborated between the partners before the projects starts. Doing so, we will start on a solid basis and agree on important points such as transparency and eventual conflict resolution techniques. What is more, after every session abroad, we will evaluate the session together and discuss any conflicts or misunderstandings that have arisen before they take a scale that could be detrimental to the project.-Expected results:Better knowledge and use of IT tools in language learningOpen access online database with tutorials and resources about IT tools in language learningMedium to large-scale communication and publicity about our projectImproved image of our schools and partnersGood memories and international relationshipsPotential inspiration for other projects-Potential long term benefits:Better learning practicesLong-term online resource exchangeImproved student motivation/results/attendanceDissemination activities/trainings
-Based on the fact that our pedagogical practices in Belgium were less and less in tune with the real world’s increasing use of information technologies, we decided to take a step back and take time to study and analyse how these new communication tools could change and improve the way we teach and study languages. To facilitate this, we began by seeking out collaborative links with schools who had already begun the journey towards greater use of digital devices as an aid to teaching and learning. -Through this collaboration we have been able to share and improve our knowledge of the effective use of digital devices in the language classroom. We then wished to publicise our findings so that other teachers could also easily and efficiently integrate these tools into their practices without repeating the mistakes inherent in the integration of any new pedagogical methodology. -To realise this we created, developed and publicised tools to help language teachers efficiently incorporate Information Technologies in their everyday practices through the use of an online platform where users can discover tutorials and concrete pedagogical examples of how IT can improve language learning as well as learner motivation and independence. -Twelve teachers and approximately one hundred students from four very different but innovative, in terms of IT integration, secondary schools in Northern Ireland, Catalonia, Andalusia and Belgium, came together to exchange information about their respective visions and ways of using these technologies within their different cultures and educational systems. -The main activities undertaken included the sharing, explanation and demonstration of a wide variety of applications, the opportunity to observe how new digital technologies are used in the varied learning environments and the creation of a shared website to collate and disseminate the project’s many concrete achievements, outputs and outcomes. -This resulted in the creation of a comprehensive website, a dedicated Twitter channel where we actively tweet and share opinions about EdTech news and debates, examples of students’ creativity using digital technology, broader staff training to include the wider staff from each participating institution and participation in a public digital conference where this ERASMUS+ project was showcased. -In the longer term it is anticipated that each participating school will not only continue to collaborate and to develop the inclusion of digital technologies as teaching and learning tools, but will encourage other schools to also engage in the development of innovative teaching methodologies.