The project aims at developing students and teachers' knowledge of media and digital devices, which play an essential role in our lives. Thanks to different kinds of activities students will be guided to acquire the so called "digital citizenship skills" , developing both their abilities to think critically and their reading/writing skills. Pupils will increase their awareness of the power that media play in our society and learn how to deal with them successfully. These objectives will obviously involve the use of English as a tool of expression and communication and the mastery of new technologies. The selected students in the three partner schools (Liceum Ogólnokształcące nr II in Zespół Szkół Ponadgimnazjalnych nr 1, Kepno, IIs Romagnosi and IES El Greco) will work divided in international team on different "missions" which will include research activities about the features of various media; analysis of the way how information is given in different countries and preparation of comparing /contrasting presentations; participation in debates and discussion with the following creation of a blog and publishing of a real international magazine. All activities will involve different technological tools and will eneable students to experience new didactic students-centred methodologies which will support motivation and therefore reduce the number of early school leaving pupils. Mobility learning activities are also included in the project and they will be essential to reach our objectives: students will work together guided by teachers and will produce tangible results: all "products" (presentations, padlets, links to blog, online magazine, discussion forums, google documents, surveys and questionnaires) will be available on the project website and also on the twinspce, which will be used for the every day work of pupils. During the mobilities visits to news agencies (TV, newspaper, radio) and interviews to people who work in the media industry will be planned to provide as much information to our students as possible . Collaboration among partners will be essential for the success of the project: all activities will be planned in detail during transational meetings, thorugh every day exchange of mails, via whatsup and thanks to the organisation of regular videoconferences; potential problems will be solved avoiding conflicts which may influence the work of pupils. Teachers will have the opportunity to get in touch with different techniques, good practices, other teaching methodologies which they will then be able to share with other teachers of their sending institute and other schools in the area leading to a general improvement of the quality of education. All the people engaged in the project, both directly and indirectly, will broaden their horisons. They will get to know the culture of the partner countries, their customs, traditions and mentality. Thanks to it, they can break down stereotypes be guided to an improved understanding of what it is meant by the idea of "European citizenship".
The project aimed at developing students and teachers' knowledge of media and digital devices, which play an essential role in our lives. Thanks to different kinds of activities students were guided to acquire the so called "digital citizenship skills" , developing both their abilities to think critically and their reading/writing skills. Pupils increased their awareness of the power that media play in our society and learnt how to deal with them successfully. These objectives involved the use of English as a tool of expression and communication and the mastery of new technologies. 66 selected students in the three partner schools worked divided in teams on different "missions" which included research activities, analysis information delivery in different countries and preparation of comparing /contrasting presentations, discussions with the following creation of a blog and publishing of a real international magazine. They also reflected on the role of videogames both as free time activity and as a learning tool. Participants were asked to prepare digital games on their countries which were then used to create a real live game during the last mobility to Italy. All activities were realised using different technological tools and enabled students to experience new didactic students-centred methodologies which supported their motivation and their involvement in school life. Mobility learning activities represented an essential step to reach our objectives: students had the opportunity to work together and produced tangible results: surveys, questionnaires interviews , presentations, padlets, blog, magazine, google docs, videos, digital games, which are available on the project website and also on the twinspace, which was used for the every day work of pupils. During the mobilities visits to news agencies (TV, newspaper, radio) and interviews to people who work in the media industry were realised to provide as much information to our students as possible . Collaboration among partners was essential for the success of the project: all activities were planned in detail during transational meetings and supported by exchange of mails, whatsup messages and the organisation of regular videoconferences. The implementation of the project gave teachers the opportunity to really experience an effective professional exchange of good practices together with the development of reciprocal esteem which gave all the activities additional value . Everything was then shared in respective schools where all colleagues could get in touch with materials produced and get inspired for their daily work leading to a general improvement of the quality of education. Thanks to planned dissemination activities not only students but also families, school staff and members of local communities had the opportunity to get in touch with the culture of partner countries improving their identity as awareness as European citizens.