Nowadays education is changing and we need to adapt it to society demands: More active methodologies and the inclusion of new materials that motivate students to reach the educational systems goals, giving them the opportunity to succeed in both their scholar and working ages.The name of this project is “E-m@ti-on”. Inside this name we can find the essence of the project and its main goals. First of all we want to share good practices in the implementation of new methods that active children minds. Students must be the responsible of their own learning by giving them more autonomy.Children are living with lots of technology around them, we find that it is important to take advantage of this situation and the abilities that they bring to the schools. Children need to receive a modern education where schools guide in the proper use of new devices and resources that are so close to. Technology is not only a source of leisure, on the contrary it can be used for improving the acquisition of subjects as mathematics increasing its level at each school.Autonomy need resources that we want to teach and offer to students for them to arrive to a better acquisition of instrumental subjects. We want to teach applications, programs and technology resources as robotics that far from being trends are showing that are helpful for teaching and learning. Inside the development of an international project there is always a big part of foreign language practice. Improvement of the English level of our school students is another objective of our project.Finally it is of vital importance to deal with “emotions”. Affective part of our lives is always around every action we do and motivates also all our mental and physical activity. Working autonomously favours activation of interest in learning. Besides, implementation of active methodologies implies cooperation to work together in groups, helping the construction of new and better relations between class members. This is another goal to achieve with this project, the improvement of conflict resolution by preventing them. We will get also the inclusion of social problem students.All in all we look for a new method that includes the use of technology to learn instrumental subjects in an active way that motivate children to cooperate and, inside this learning atmosphere, they will be able to reach a better acquisition of contents. Once objectives are explained, it is the moment to mention the actors of the project. All the participants have already started the inclusion of technology in their educational method at schools, either as a part of any subject or as a specific technology subject with times and spaces reserved to ensure its performance. The nationalities of the participants are the following: Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, German, Polish and Swedish. In terms of activities we are developing very different kind of them. From the most typical preparation of logo that will disseminate the project, to activities directly related to the project. We are working with robotics showing how to program a robot through the use of blocks of program language, applications for information processing, mind mapping or geometry with the computer. Everything will be worked in English, if not at the beginning, at the end the final product that will be sent to European partners.Special attention and importance have “Learning, Teaching and Training” activities that supposes travelling with children. These activities will be the top of a hard work performed along the school year.The methodology we are going to follow along the project will be based on giving out responsibilities to different people so that we can produce more and we will be able to get a higher impact by arriving to more people. The schools teachers who participate will have different roles such as the web manager or the responsible of collecting all the results from every country in order to show improvements. For children it will be similar since they are going to work in groups playing roles like captain, secretary, speaker or responsible of material.Results that we expect with the project are:-Method to teach using a project based program that includes the use of technology.-Improvement of mathematics and English language levels-Improvement the coexistence levels of the schools All of these results are final goals in order to improve expectations of children, mainly the ones with socio-economic problems. This is the most important impact we want to reach apart from getting a better trained group of teachers in our schools, to improve our schools image in the area and to reach other stakeholders in Town Councils and close Educational Governments so that they consider this kind of education vital for current society. They could help supporting this modern way of education if we show all its benefits. These are long-term benefits because the six schools have already decided to implement it and their schools are bett
The project is developed in six educational centers in six different European countries. The coordinating country is the Spanish center and the other centers are located in Sweden, Greece, Portugal, Germany and Poland. The profile of these organizations is diverse. On the one hand, we looked for centers where robotics were established and worked to teach other countries how to proceed and move forward in the methodological change. On the other we needed the experience in active methodologies to be able to work with technological projects that gave more importance to the student's role in the teaching-learning process and to collaborative work. Finally, it was necessary for the centers to have the restlessness and organizational viability to be able to implement the technology in the day to day of their respective curricular programs. Priority Objective: We seek a methodological change through the implementation of technology in the day-to-day teaching of Mathematics and Science. More specifically, we contemplated the possibility of teaching Mathematics and Science through educational robotics. The specific objectives of the project are: 1-Improvement of Maths results. 2-Provide the necessary technological tools for the acquisition of mathematical concepts. 3-Increase communicative competence in English. 4-Share good living practices in the centers. Activities carried out and products obtained: In order to develop the project we created a methodological guide with worksheets on which mathematical concepts will be worked through robotics. We have also developed a multilingual dictionary so that communication during transnational activities is fluid. We have also learned to use Scratch, Lego Wedo and Lego Mindstorms by creating games and activities with Scratch and robot prototypes with Lego, in order to recreate real-life situations and solve challenges that society poses. To learn about the different cultures of the participating countries, we have made videoconferences and plastic activities that have been shared in the transnational meetings. The results achieved are summarized in greater knowledge of the application of robotics in the classroom, increasing the level of Mathematics in students and the motivation of our students towards the area, improving the communicative level of English and sharing good practices on coexistence that establish new organizational models for the improvement of the students' work environment. Dissemination and impact: We have carried out dissemination activities such as exhibitions, talks and participation in congresses, where visibility was given to the project and the work carried out within the environment of each center, at the neighborhood, local and regional level. The website has been the place where all the activities have been hosted. It was created at the beginning of the project. The main impact is due to the implementation of technology, either as a subject or as a methodological resource because it has led to organizational changes, modifications to the time allocation for each subject, changes in the professional profiles needed in the centers, etc. It should be mentioned that the impact of the use of educational robotics has opened the mind towards new methodological strategies in centers where programming language or robotics kits had never been used. The sustainability of the project in the future will be based on continuing to develop materials and implement them in the classroom. Since each center has found the space to develop the activities created, this work will continue in the future looking for new and better results. The centers remain in contact and will continue to evaluate the impact of the project and will even work for new initiatives that arise to re-participate in future Erasmus projects that return to bring quality to their educational offer.