The project is untitled "Smart Education: Explore CLIL by Using Robotics". The idea came from daily life, when we observed our own children and students at school. The 21st century is the time when access to information is so easy and common that learning facts and statistical data by heart is no longer necessary as it can be acquired with no effort. Therefore, the most important skills now seem to be the ability to find specific information, understand and employ quantitative and qualitative analysis to solve problems, interpret and evaluate information from a variety of sources and transform information into knowledge and knowledge into judgment and action. Teaching those competences is one of the main goal of a modern school nowadays. Aspiration of our project team is to find the ways of CLIL and Robotics integration as a foundation for future student learning. The main aim of teaching staff is to develop the right teaching strategies which can lead to creative learning,and a productive approach to making integration as a part of ongoing personal and professional development. Our aim is to create our students' opportunity to view integration as something that is not going away,and it should be used productively, rather than devalued in schools. Thanks to developing all project activities our students will gain the key for competences for a successful life such as problems solving,reflection,creativity,critical thinking,learning to learn,risk-taking,collaboration,and entrepreneurship.Also they will improve their English and ICT skills. We are team of 6 countries with the similar experience connecting with project topic and who have been working together at the same subject which interests all participants – active methods, ICT, LEGO as a tool during the lessons. But above all we want to share our innovative teaching approaches. The project team consist of teachers are well-qualified and skilled enough.They can be called innovative and willing to experiment on new ideas, methods and approaches.They participated in various European Project and seminars about the new learning methods,activities and also they took part in Erasmus+ projects as a team members.More than half of key persons are well-qualified and skilled on ICT. Students target group are from 12 to 14 years old. The current project is aiming to enhance the quality of teaching and education offered for this target group. Approximately 120 students from 6 participating schools will attend in the mobilities of students.These youth are communicative,cooperative,social, enthusiastic,creative,able to work in team and assume the leadership role.In addition to good social and personal skills they have good English, ICT, robotic knowledge. So 100 participants will actively participate in the project.However,this team will involve the whole school community from their countries to participate actively in this project (at least 8,000 people). All partners are important and will give something special to the project. German partner role as a coordinating school within the project will be a supportive role but also providing specialism for the whole project group.The coordinating school will bring new innovative pedagogical teaching materials which will be shared with all partners.Portuguese partner will bring the new advanced ICT technology and they share their knowledge with others.They will help in designing website and all materials.The school has a good command of computer and participate in some training. Lithuanian school are willing to bring new ideas and create new teaching materials by using LEGO bricks and active learning methods in class.They are willing to use their knowledge and ICT experience in teaching and share that with partners. Greece and Croatia schools want to show our students that the wold is open to new opportunities and they can explore this world by the use of the Internet as a main channel of communication.Poland and Italy schools will bring their enthusiasm and the innovative ideas. It will allow a multifaceted development of the programme. They are willing to help for other partners to organize and moderate students activities during all students meetings.Our international team will share good practice which will be essential to create high quality projects' activities and results. The main are: - e-book with 12 lesson plans, worksheets "Smart education: Let's explore CLIL by Robotics"; - comic book on "A child from a green future"; - films with the main role of LEGO robots-machines; - 2 e-books "My fairy LEGO animal" and "LEGO machine that is ecologically clean" with the instruction on animal creating; - book with conference "Natural Engineers" material. IMPACT-Teachers: language skills,mastery of ICT,using new teaching methods,management skills.Students:improved their basic, English, ICT, robotics skills. Project realization will lead to raise of schools status as a learning institution and gained knowledge will enable.
The idea for the project titled "Smart Education: Explore CLIL by Using Robotics" came from daily life, from observing our own children and students at school. In the 21st century access to information is easy and common that learning facts and statistical data by heart is no longer necessary as it can be acquired with no effort. Therefore, the most important skills now seem to be the ability to find specific information, understand and employ quantitative and qualitative analysis to solve problems, interpret and evaluate information from a variety of sources and transform information into knowledge and knowledge into judgement and action. Teaching those competences is one of the main goals of a modern school nowadays. The aspiration for our project team was to find ways to integrate CLIL and Robotics as a foundation for future student learning. The main aim of the teaching staff was to develop the right teaching strategies which lead to creative learning and a productive approach to making integration as a part of ongoing personal and professional development. Our aim was to create an opportunity for our students to view integration as something that is not going away and that should be used productively, rather than be devalued in schools. Due to all project activities our students gained key competences for a successful life such as problem solving, reflection, creativity, critical thinking, learning to learn, risk-taking and collaboration. Also, they improved their English and ICT skills. We were a team of 6 countries with similar experiences in relation to the project topic and same interests in active methods, ICT and LEGO as a tool during the lessons. But above all we wanted to share our innovative teaching approaches. The project team consisted of teachers who were well-qualified and skilled enough. They can be called innovative and willing to experiment on new ideas, methods and approaches. They already participated in various European projects and seminars about new learning methods, activities and also took part in Erasmus+ projects. More than half of the key persons were well-qualified and skilled in ICT. The student target group was from 12 to 15 years old. The current project aimed at enhancing the quality of teaching and education offered to this target group. Approximately 100 students from 6 participating schools attended in the mobilities of students. These young people were communicative, cooperative, social, enthusiastic, creative and able to work in a team. In addition to good social and personal skills they had good English, ICT and robotics knowledge. So 100 participants actively participated in the project. However, the teams involved the whole school community of their country to participate actively in the project. All partners were important and provided special knowledge to the project. The German partner as coordinating school within the project had a supportive role but also provided specialist knowledge for the whole project group. The coordinating school shared new innovative pedagogical teaching materials with all partners. The Portuguese partner brought new advanced ICT technology and shared their knowledge with others. They established and kept up the project’s website. The school has a good command of ICT and participated in various trainings. The Lithuanian school provided new ideas and created new teaching materials by using LEGO bricks and active learning methods in class. They shared their knowledge and ICT experience in teaching with all partners. The school taught students to explore the world by using the Internet as a main source of information and a main channel of communication. The Polish and Croatian school provided innovative teaching methods and ideas. During the meeting in Poland for example a robot was built to collect garbage. The cooperation of all partners helped to develop a multi-faceted programme to organize and moderate students’ activities during all students’ meetings. Our international team shared good practices which were essential to create high quality project activities and results. The main products are: - e-book with 12 lesson plans, worksheets "Smart education: Let's explore CLIL by Robotics" - comic books on "A child from a green future"; - films with the main role of LEGO robots; - 2 e-books "My fairy LEGO animal" and "LEGO machine that is ecologically clean" with the instruction on animal creation; - book with conference material on ‘Natural Engineers’ (due to the pandemic the conference couldn’t take place but the material was provided) - calender which illustrates all meetings Impact on teachers and students: During the project teachers and students improved their English language skills through communicating with the project members of the partner schools in meetings, online conferences and written communication. They also acquired new or better knowledge of ICT and robotics during the project activities and the exchange of teaching materials. In addition teachers improved their teaching through the exchange of teaching methods and their management skills while carrying out and organizing the project. To sum up, the realization of the project enriched the schools by providing knew knowledge and teaching methods as well as improving the schools’ status.