Digital media has an important place in our life. We can follow what is happening in the world thanks to media. Nowadays, the children take pleasure in using media tools more than adults. They mostly use internet to play computer games or chat to friends on Facebook. The project focuses on the problems and misunderstandings that may come out of the easy access to the internet through ICT. The spreading of incorrect communication about migrants is problematic to pupils’ perception of migrants and the surrounding world. By means of this project, by taking advantage of their interest in using computers and the Internet and following the happenings through digital media, we want to meet our needs such asgetting to know the cultures (immigrants) sprouting in our countries, learning and enhancing our respect to them, destroying the prejudices, reaching more information about them, strengthening the mutual relations and reinforcing the friendship. Considering the fact that statements made in the media can plant distortions in the mind of millions and that learning to recognize commonly used fallacies will help separate fact from fiction, we hope that students will acquire such abilities as creating conscious content and assess the author, purpose and content of a message critically when they decide the reliability of a content on the digital media. According to the European priorities, our project focuses on the intercultural dialogues in order to promote international understanding and world peace. The educative community will discover value and respect; understand the local and national cultures, each country and region. Teachers and students will share and exchange experiences to reinforce cooperation in order to achieve great convergence and improvement. The students will develop social skills by sharing ideas, knowledge, tasks, materials and etc. They will learn a foreign language in a true situation of communication and will develop literacy skills as well. The purpose of the partnership is to learn about other cultures, especially the immigrants in our countriesand compare them with our own culture, to improve ICT competences and foreign languages. We will use the tools such as videos, internet, e-Twinning, the social media-Twitter, YouTube and Facebook-bulletin boards, posters, logos, pictures and books to share and compare different life styles. We will have knowledge and skills in many areas such as culture, history, languages, geography, art and etc. We will create an awareness of the outside world and other cultures. We will guide the immigrants’ appreciation and acceptance. We will also create our own products of activities such as educational materials related to digital literacy and ICT, a product by Scratch, a short video film for peace, designing logos and slogans, painting competition and exhibitions, a digital dictionary, a calendar creation, slide shows about immigrants (pictures, brochures, interviews and memories), an e-book with all the recipes of the partnership, slide shows about our religious traditions, preparing an online magazine, recorded videos (mobility experiences), diaries, important days and weeks and the results of the questionnaires. The partner schools have students of the same ages and similar needs. The schools have a variety of cultural diversity with students from different social and economic backgrounds. We want to do this project mainly in terms of developing language and ICT skills and sharing cultures. We are altogether in this project aiming to achieve common goals. We will run the project according to the planned activities, budget and time schedule. The responsibilities of the coordinator and of the partners are determined. We will work cooperatively. In a multi-social and multi-cultural environment the students learn to take responsibility for each other, for the ones who are different in skin colour, religion or just from a different cultural background. Based on cooperative work between the schools, we would like to familiarize pupils with different cultures and enhance their understanding and create an interesting learning environment. Due to that, they will be aware of their city, Europe and their condition as European citizens.
The purpose of the partnership was to learn about other cultures, especially the immigrants in our countries and compare them with our own culture, to improve ICT competences and foreign languages. We used the tools such as videos, internet, e-Twinning, the social media-Twitter, YouTube and Facebook-bulletin boards, posters, logos, pictures and books to share and compared different life styles. We had knowledge and skills in many areas such as culture, history, languages, geography, art and etc. We wanted to meet our needs such as getting to know the cultures (immigrants) sprouting in our countries, learning and enhancing our respect to them, destroying the prejudices, reaching more information about them, strengthening the mutual relations and reinforcing the friendship. Students acquired such abilities as creating conscious content and assess the author, purpose and content of a message critically when they decided the reliability of content on the digital media. The project focused on the problems and misunderstandings that may come out of the easy access to the internet through ICT. The spreading of incorrect communication about migrants is problematic to pupils’ perception of migrants and the surrounding world. According to the European priorities, our project focused on the intercultural dialogues in order to promote international understanding and world peace. The educative community discovered value and respect; understood the local and national cultures, each country and region. Teachers and students shared and exchanged experiences to reinforce cooperation in order to achieve great convergence and improvement. The students developed social skills by sharing ideas, knowledge, tasks, materials and etc. They learned a foreign language in a true situation of communication and developed literacy skills as well. We created an awareness of the outside world and other cultures. We guided the immigrants’ appreciation and acceptance. We also created our own products of activities such as educational materials related to digital literacy and ICT, a product by Scratch, a short video film for peace, designing logos and slogans, painting competition and exhibitions, a digital dictionary, a calendar creation, slide shows about immigrants (pictures, brochures, interviews and memories), an e-book with all the recipes of the partnership, slide shows about our religious traditions, preparing an online magazine, recorded videos (mobility experiences), diaries, important days and weeks and the results of the questionnaires. The partner schools had students of the same ages and similar needs. The schools had a variety of cultural diversity with students from different social and economic backgrounds. We wanted to do this project mainly in terms of developing language and ICT skills and sharing cultures. We were altogether in this project aiming to achieve common goals. We run the project according to the planned activities, budget and time schedule. We worked cooperatively. In a multi-social and multi-cultural environment the students took responsibility for each other, for the ones who were different in skin colour, religion or just from a different cultural background. Based on cooperative work between the schools, we would like to familiarize pupils with different cultures and enhance their understanding and create an interesting learning environment.