This project name „Let´s go increase skills of 21st century“ is based on ICT and polytechnic education. The aim of the project is to improve conditions for successful learning and offer a variety of activities and methods which focus on practical activites. The project involves five schools in five countries – the Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Turkey. All schools want to increase skills of 21st century, especially information and communication skills and technic skills. In all partner schools there are students with different cultural background, migrant students, students with learning difficulties and all of them need individual approach. All schools want to use innovative methods to find a way how to improve student´s results and help them to feel satisfied with their studies and reduce early school leaving. The school in Czech Republic, (coordinator school), Zakladni škola Vrchlickeho 22 Sumperk is the school with an extensive teaching of information and communication technology and foreign languages (English, Germany and Russian). The aim of the school is to educate Europian oriented people, use innovative methodolities and ICT. Almost teachers involve in ICT or polytechnic project and increase in their children ICT competences. The school in Turkey, ORTAKOY 80.YIL MESLEKI VE TEKNIK ANADOLU LISESI, is a vocational and industrial high school. The school is consits of technic parts – Electricity, Electronics Technologies, Computer, Machinery, Wood and Metal Technologies – and the school prepare students for technical thinking and proffessions. The school in Italy, Istituto Tecnico Settore tecnologico - Liceo Scientifico "E. Mattei", is a secondary level education, which is consist of Scientific Lyceum and Technical Institute. Italian school has got experiences with robotic teaching, Abruzzo Coding and others. The school has got Classroom 3.0: equipped with digital, which is modified each time according to educational needs and Robotics Classroom: equipped with modular and modular furniture according to the experimental needs, supplied with "Scribbler" and "Lego EV3" robots, dedicated to coding and educational robotics. The school in Greece, The 3rd Gymnasio of Larissa (High School), has got ICT, Science and Technology laboratories. Teachers strengthen critical thinking and polytechnic education in their students and teach in innovative methods and new programme. The school in Portugal, Agrupamento de Escolas de Santo André, is a multicultural schools, many students are from African countries, Brasil, China, Moldova, Ukraine, Romania. Apart from the ethnical and linguistic differences it is the students’ social status that sometimes leads to integration difficulties of some students. The school is consits of 4 schools and has got many laboratories. We have decided to prepare a project which offers pupils an opportunity of personal development, an opportunity to improve existing skills and to try something new. We believe that the suggested activities will improve pupils´ attendance at school and their commitment to education. The project will involve hundreds (900) of students, directly or indirectly. Some activities will be short-term and they will bring an innovative method to a lesson, for example practical activities for learning Chemistry, Biology, Physics and ICT. Some activities will be long-term and they will require more commitment and engagement from students, for example programming a robot by micro:bit, making video based on ICT activities. Some activities will be organized as a workshop, for example Science or ICT workshops or a project day for children from a local kindergarten to show children making robots or organize a competitions with robots for parents. Students age 13 - 16 will benefit from the project. The activities will improve team work, reduce stress and stimulate creativity and imagination. Students will make a calendar with robots, make T-shirts in program Pixlr, in Sketch up program will designe their robots, will organize a competition and races with robots, will learn about social media tools and how to be on the internet safe - all these activities will boost their creativity. Students will improve their language, communicative, IT and Scientic skills - they will design websites, make presentations about their school, download photos and learn how to edit photos and download videos. Scientific subjects will offer more attractive activities to motivate students to study them. Various educational materials (worksheets, cards) will be created, tested and reviewed during the two years of the project duration and should become a common aid after the project is completed. We hope to form close friendships between the participants from our schools, between different students within the school, between students and teachers. We hope the project will be a life changing experience for all the participants.
This project name „Let´s go increase skills of 21st century“ was based on ICT and polytechnic education. The aim of the project was to improve conditions for successful learning and offer a variety of activities and methods which focus on practical activites. The project involved five schools in five countries – the Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Turkey. All schools wanted to increase skills of 21st century, especially information and communication skills and technic skills. In all partner schools there were students with different cultural background, migrant students, students with learning difficulties and all of them needed individual approach. All schools used innovative methods to find a way how to improve student´s results and helped them to feel satisfied with their studies and reduced early school leaving. The school in Czech Republic, (coordinator school), Zakladni škola Vrchlickeho 22 Sumperk was the school with an extensive teaching of information and communication technology and foreign languages (English, Germany and Russian). The aim of the school is to educate Europian oriented people, use innovative methodolities and ICT. Almost teachers involved in ICT or polytechnic project and increased in their children ICT competences. The school in Turkey, ORTAKOY 80.YIL MESLEKI VE TEKNIK ANADOLU LISESI, was a vocational and industrial high school. The school was consits of technic parts – Electricity, Electronics Technologies, Computer, Machinery, Wood and Metal Technologies – and the school prepared students for technical thinking and proffessions. The school in Italy, Istituto Tecnico Settore tecnologico - Liceo Scientifico "E. Mattei", was a secondary level education, which was consist of Scientific Lyceum and Technical Institute. Italian school had got experiences with robotic teaching, Abruzzo Coding and others. The school had got Classroom 3.0: equipped with digital, which was modified each time according to educational needs and Robotics Classroom: equipped with modular and modular furniture according to the experimental needs, supplied with "Scribbler" and "Lego EV3" robots, dedicated to coding and educational robotics. The school in Greece, The 3rd Gymnasio of Larissa (High School), had got ICT, Science and Technology laboratories. Teachers strengthen critical thinking and polytechnic education in their students and tought in innovative methods and new programme. The school in Portugal, Agrupamento de Escolas de Santo André, was a multicultural schools, many students were from African countries, Brasil, China, Moldova, Ukraine, Romania. Apart from the ethnical and linguistic differences it was the students’ social status that sometimes leads to integration difficulties of some students. The school was consits of 4 schools and has got many laboratories. We decided to prepare a project which offers pupils an opportunity of personal development, an opportunity to improve existing skills and to try something new. The suggested activities improved pupils´ attendance at school and their commitment to education. The project involved hundreds of students, directly or indirectly. Some activities were short-term and they brought an innovative method to a lesson, for example practical activities for learning Chemistry, Biology, Physics and ICT. Some activities were be long-term and they required more commitment and engagement from students, for example programming a robot by micro:bit, made video based on ICT activities. Some activities were organized as a workshop, for example Science or ICT workshops or a project day for children from a local kindergarten to show children making robots or organize a competitions with robots for parents. Students age 13 - 16 benefited from the project. The activities improved team work, reduced stress and stimulated creativity and imagination. Students made a calendar with robots, made T-shirts in program Pixlr, in Sketch up program designed their robots, organized a competition in transnational meeting in Portugal between partners of project and races with robots, learnt about social media tools and how to be on the internet safe - all these activities boosted their creativity. Students improved their language, communicative, IT and Scientic skills - they designed websites, made presentations about their school, downloaded photos and learnt how to edit photos and downloaded videos. Scientific subjects offered more attractive activities to motivate students to study them. Various educational materials (worksheets, cards) created, tested and reviewed during the three years of the project duration. We were happy to form close friendships between the participants from schools, between different students within the school, between students and teachers. The project was a life changing experience for all the participants.