Our project focuses on using information technologies (IT) as a senseful, practical tool in the teaching process, specifically in the context of language learning. One main objective is to compare, exchange and transfer good practices using IT tools, and to raise their acceptance, applicability and openness in the classrooms across five EU countries with previously-observed different approaches to the use of IT in the classroom. We intend to use social media and other computer-assisted channels, as well cell phones and iPads to bring communicative teaching to the level of present-day society. The participating countries Spain, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy and Finland represent Europe from south to north and from east to west. We also wish to use technology to bring our students closer to one another. We aim at pooling different methods to motivate our students to use foreign languages, give them safe channels to interact with foreign peers online and to create computer-assisted evaluation methods which we can test and try together. In addition, this project would provide us with hands-on experience in the subject and encourage us to use these channels in our everyday teaching. This project will enrich our more traditional teaching methods, provide us with more alternatives to the safe potentials of social media in the classroom and will also help our students see it as a valuable tool to learn languages. We hope to gain long-lasting networking partners from around Europe and to involve both the less talented and the advanced learners into experiencing positive attitudes and experiences at school. It is clear to us that testing using IT means, for example, will be an integral part of school procedures , in Finland already now, so it seems logical that we share (and seek feedback) for these and many other practices at an international level.
Our project focused on using information technologies (IT) as a senseful, practical tool in the teaching process, specifically in the context of language learning. One main objective was to compare, exchange and transfer good practices using IT tools, and to raise their acceptance, applicability and openness in the classrooms across four EU countries with previously-observed different approaches to the use of IT in the classroom. We intended to use social media and other computer-assisted channels, as well cell phones and iPads to bring communicative teaching to the level of present-day society. The participating countries Germany, Bulgaria, Italy and Finland represented Europe from south to north and from east to west. We also wished to use technology to bring our students closer to one another. We aimed at pooling different methods to motivate our students to use foreign languages, give them safe channels to interact with foreign peers online and to create computer-assisted evaluation methods which we can test and try together. In addition, this project provided us with hands-on experience in the subject and encouraged us to use these channels in our everyday teaching. This project enriched our more traditional teaching methods, provided us with more alternatives to the safe potentials of social media in the classroom and also helped our students see it as a valuable tool to learn languages. We hoped to gain long-lasting networking partners from around Europe and to involve both the less talented and the advanced learners into experiencing positive attitudes and experiences at school. It was clear to us that testing using IT means, for example, will be an integral part of school procedures , in Finland already now, so it seems logical that we shared (and seemed feedback) for these and many other practices at an international level.