This project is aiming to develop our students' habit of taking a second look on an event or a news they come across on TV, internet or other communication tools that make possible reach the information we need whenever and where ever we wish. And to reach this aim, we have to foster the students' critical thinking skills and our main tool that will be used to foster this skill will be media. The project group is consisted of six schools, two private schools from Spain and Czech Republic, three high schools from Greece, Poland and Turkey also a vocational high school from Germany with students between 12-18. All the partners are experienced in their fields and Erasmus projects. Spanish school will coordinate the project and Turkish team will help them with the experience they get together during the project "Following the footprints of the Emperors" that has been being coordinated by Turkish team and is aiming to develop creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication. Polish school will be guide on the animation, Germany will be responsible for mobile phone application and social media. While we will get benefit from Czech partner's experience in advertisement, in Greece we will focus on media's influence on our regarding people and nations. Our activities have been planned in the schema of search,learn and create. Before all the meetings, we will lead our students make search, interviews and surveys about the decided topic in order to get a main idea of the subject. For example, we will make a survey on media and ethic before meeting in Turkey, a search about advertisements before Czech Republic, a search about the attitudes to Greece, a social media search before Germany meeting, a search on the biggest disinformation events and an interview with people from social and occupation levels before Spain and a search on the biggest social or charity campaigns before Poland. And we will have 5 teaching, learning,training activities in Spain, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and Greece during which we will have activities in order to deepen the basic knowledge we get through our searches, surveys and interviews by comparing the results. Also these meetings will be opportunity to develop our students' creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and also team working skills via the workshops and activities such as graffiti, mosaics, marshmallow challenge, video on emojis, Geo Caching, code writing, preparing an advertisement and during these activities they will work as a team consisted of students from different countries in order to create a handy craft or ICT product. And these meetings will be chances for our teachers to develop their professional proficiency through the workshops, seminars on media literacy, photography, Web 2.0 tools, mobile phone applications in class, multiple intelligence and also the job shadowing on Google Class. Also, our teachers will have homeworks of preparing a lesson material using the knowledge they get during these activities. And we have different critical thinking activities. For example, our students will have 4 daily life challenges during which they will try to seek information, analyze alternatives, evaluate the alternatives asking better questions. And, they will share their thoughts about decided topics by clicking yes or no and then writing their reasons. Another challenge for our students to develop their critical thinking skills is making critical evaluation after meetings such as; comparing their own school with this utopia school and writing their analyzes, playing six hat thinking game on philosophy lessons, having PMI (plus, minus and interesting points) on a social media site, critical evaluation of the general attitude to immigrants. After the meetings, students will have homeworks. They will share their experiences and new or developed skills with their friends and they will guide them to create a product using the new skills; creating a modest logo, a poster on national stereotypes, an animation on emojis, an animation on artist who had effect on society. And cooperation with under school age to to detect how many trade marks they know to see the media's effect, co operation with housewives on media, the activity of critical thinking with children on what if - fairy tales, daily life challenges , discussion and contest of comics and animations in partner schools will be done thorough the project in order to keep fresh students' interest in project and understand the effect of the media more extensively and disseminate our project to wider society.
The World is Bigger than What you See on the Screen has been a project aimed at getting our students to develop the habit of taking a second look on an event or the news they come across on social networks, TV, internet or other communication means that are constantly at their disposal, thanks to their access to mobile devices. To reach this aim, we fostered the students' critical thinking skills using the same tools they do and other they may encounter in nowadays globalized world. The project group consisted on six schools: two private schools from Spain and Czech Republic, three high schools from Greece, Poland and Turkey and also a vocational high school from Germany, all of them with students between 12-18. The six partners had previous experience in a variety of fields and Erasmus projects. Spanish school coordinated the project with the help of the Turkish team, thanks to the experience they got together during the development of the finalized KA219 project "Following the footprints of the Emperors" that was coordinated by Turkish team and also contributed to develop creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication skills, among other specific aims of that project. Polish school led the activities that had to do with animation, Germany was responsible for mobile phone applications and webpage, Czech partners shared their experience on audiovisual areas (filming, photography), Greek team contributed with their abilities with the use of ICT’s and creativity, responsible for the project’s magazine. Our activities were planned within a scheme of search, learn and create. Before the meetings, we led our students to do research, hold interviews and make surveys about the decided topic in order to get the main idea of the subject. For example, we made a survey on media and ethic before the meeting in Turkey, a search about advertisements before Czech Republic, a search about stereotypes and prejudice before Greece, a social media search before Germany, a search on the biggest disinformation events, an interview with immigrants before Spain and a search on the biggest social or charity campaigns before Poland. We held five teaching-learning-training activities in Spain, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and Greece during which we carried out activities in order to deepen the basic knowledge we got through our searches, surveys and interviews by comparing the results. Besides, these meetings were an opportunity to develop our students' creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and also team working skills, via the workshops and activities such as graffiti, mosaics, escape rooms, video on emojis, Geo Caching, code writing or preparing an advertisement, among others. During these activities they worked in teams consisting on students from different countries in order to create a handicraft or ICT product. These meetings were also chances for our teachers to develop their professional proficiency through the workshops and seminars on media literacy, photography, Web 2.0 tools, mobile phone applications in class, innovative-active methodologies and also the job shadowing on Google Class. Also, our teachers had to do homework, preparing lesson materials using the knowledge they got during these activities. Besides, we had different critical thinking activities, including contributions to blogs where students shared their opinions and discussed about some daily topics. Another challenge for our students to develop their critical thinking skills was making critical evaluation after meetings such as comparing their own school with a utopia school, having PMI (plus, minus and interesting points) on a social media site, or critical evaluation of the general attitude to immigrants. After the meetings, the students that attended them also had homework: they had to share their experiences on new or developed skills with their school mates and guide them to create a product using the new skills, such as creating an honest logo, a poster on national stereotypes, an animation on emojis or an animation on artists who had effect on society. The project also included cooperation with under school age groups to detect how many trademarks they could recognize, in order to see the media's effect on them, an activity of critical thinking with children on what if - fairy tales, daily life challenges, discussion and contest of comics and animations in partner schools that was carried out thorough the project in order to disseminate the project in the community.