Preparing today’s students requires educational systems to provide a core body of knowledge as well as a set of skills needed. At the same time the rapid growth of digital tools available increase the challenges of nowadays. The high exposure of 21st century students in web 3.0 tools, devices, and environments opens a window of new affordances, challenges, opportunities, and skills for learning/teaching and assessment. Based on existing models that combine the process (collection of activities) and the product ( result of the learning process), teachers have to implement innovative methods to get better results in both technology competency as well as academic levels. We have students that ususlly get bored at the classroom because sometimes learning is based on repetition, students don't need to perform an activity dozens of times to acquire knowledge. Too much repetition not only doesn't help our students to develop knowledge and transversal skills they need, but also lead they regret schools activities. The learning process should be focussed on competences and not just in contents. The project plans build up a Community of Practice to improve the quality of teaching in participant schools. In a world of continuous social, cultural, economic and technological change, teachers themselves need to reflect on their own teaching practice in the context of their particular school environment and share these thoughts with other teachers. Teachers will be able to learn at school (through teacher trainning sharing practices, action research, and new educational methods-related planning teams); From this process teachers will be able to enrich the curriculum in Kindergarten and Primary. We plan to build up a partnership among schools in which through the collaboration will promote among teachers professional values and attitides like reflective practice, autonomous learning, collaboration with colleagues and parents, engagement in research and innovation as a way to acquire new skills , and an involvement in the development of the whole school. Partners plan to support innovative teaching and learning environments on curricula contents, at the same time learners will acquire competences, basic transversal skills, knowledge and attitudes. Teachers will be trained to work with new methods and tools and to create learning practices/e-learning materials that can be used by other schools in participant countries and other European countries. Teachers will draw up a model for students’ learning that through the national curriculums context will develop transversal skills neded. At the same time it aims to provide teachers’ innovative tools so as to assess these skills. Target group: Teachers and students of Primary and kindergarten) also secondary, teacher trainers and education authorities. Project aims: 1. Develop in students basic knowledge (based on national curriculum) and a set of transversal skills to better implement knowledge in all school subjects. 2. Implement at school learners’ centred approaches based on self-regulated learning, self-reflections,collaborative work, peer assessment, etc 3. Use of relevant technology Robotics, Coding, Computational Thinking....enhancing student understanding, reflection and collaborative contributions to the creation of knowledge across different subjects. 4. Create a at schools framework to introduce innovative learning and teaching practices and this will be done through improving teachers’ competences to implement innovative teaching approaches and also prepare teachers to assses students’ learning (both knowledge and skills) Results Organizing training workshops, materials, services and resources to assist teachers design learning tasks for aligning learning goals and assessing transversal skills using ICT affordances and opportunities. Sharing professional practice in relation to the development new learning and teaching methods and assessment of transversal skills (e-portfolio). A website with ten learning practices produced by country ready to use at the classroom on different subjects (using robotics, coding, ... ) The materials will be in own laguage of the author and in English. Two collaborative projects will be implemented with students during the project life-cycle. One about how to implement real tasks using robotics. It has been proven that this interdisciplinary activity stimulates students to put into practice and strengthen logical thinking, analysis and synthesis. A 2nd project using coding (Particiant schools will present their school activities through APPS). Students love finding out how things work through fun, hands-on projects and teachers love knowing that they’re preparing students for their future. This will be done through the introduction of coding, robtics use, ... and a development of a needed pedagogical approach to its uses.
The project built up a Community of Practice to improve the quality of teaching in participant schools. They implemented professional values and attitudes like reflective practice, autonomous learning, collaborative work, engagement in research and innovation as a way to students acquire new skills. Teachers drew up a model for students’ learning integrated in the national curriculums. Students developed transversal skills by solving meaningful problems through the practices of robotics design. At the same time the project aimed to provide teachers’ innovative tools to assess these skills. Target group: Teachers and students of Primary, and kindergarten, and lower secondary and teacher trainers and education authorities. Project aims: 1. Develop in students basic knowledge (based on national curriculum) and a set of transversal skills to better implement knowledge in all school subjects. 2. Implement at school learners’ centred approaches based on self-regulated learning, self-reflections, collaborative work, peer assessment, etc 3. Use of relevant technology Robotics, Coding, Computational Thinking....enhancing student understanding, reflection and collaborative work to the creation of knowledge across different subjects. 4. Create at schools framework to introduce innovative learning and teaching practices by improving teachers’ competences to implement innovative teaching approaches and also prepare teachers to asssess students’ learning (both knowledge and skills) Results Training workshop for teachers have been organized, and experts participants in the course provide tools and resources to assist teachers in design learning tasks to aligning learning goals and assessing transversal skills using ICT affordances and opportunities. Blended mobilities of learners (3) in which students had the opportunity to explore robotics and coding for the application of knowledge and problem solving. Learning practice have been shared in relation to the development new learning and teaching methods and assessment of transversal skills (e-portfolio). A website including learning practices on problem solving experimentally using robotics and coding (for 3-13) were produced by participant countries. They are integrated in the curricula and ready to use at the classroom on different subjects and in different languages Two collaborative projects were implemented by students during the project life-cycle. One about learning practices (Handbook including didactical proposals of teachers) A second project focuses on the application of coding and robotics to real life (Apps, traffic light, ...) In this project students could use their understanding to solve meaningful problems of Physics through the practices of robotics and coding and teachers feel that they’re preparing students for their future. The schools have created a framework that was implemented in all classes to all students and that is now integrated in the curriculum.