This project called "We are ready for digital education" follows the strategy of the European commission claiming that digital technology is changing people’s lives and the EU’s digital strategy aims to make this transformation work for people and businesses and therefore the education of the 21 century should be transformed to be fit for digital Europe. This partnership consists of three secondary schools and three educational institutes from the Czech Republic, Germany and Spain - Obchodní akademie a Vyšší odborná škola Příbam, Berufsbildende Schule Idar-Oberstein, IES Profesor Antonio Muro, Vzdělávací institut středočeského kraje, Pädagogisches Ladesinstitut Rheinland-Pfalz, Centro del Profesorado de Cádiz. The objectives of this project include enhancing digital skills of teachers, compiling a digital tool manual and organising a set of methodology courses related to digital education in the following areas: 1) presentation tools ( (Microsoft, Google, Moodle) 2) apps for classroom (Padlet, Learningapps, Mentimeter, Contextminds, etc.) 3) testing tools (Google/Microsoft Forms, Quizzes, Quizlet, Kahoot, Actionbound) 4) conferencing tools (Goodle classroom, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Blizz, eTwinning) 5) GDPR and internet safety 6) 3D Print The project will have about 4000 participants including students and teachers of involved schools, workers of educational institutes and attendants of courses organised by the institutes. During the project lifecycle, we intend to organise 3 transnational meetings and 3 LTA activities with a total of 72 mobilities. As a result of our cooperation a digital manual will be created, worksheet related to ICT will come into existence. This project will lead to sharing innovative digital practices and follows the aim of the EU Commission to support EU Member States to improve the quality, effectiveness and labour market relevance of national education and training systems to support the acquisition of key competences, including digital skills. In every country, there are different standard and rules about IT issues, international comparison is important as it broadens our perception of the whole problem and is in accordance with our internationalisation strategies. Methods applied in this project include analysing needs of teachers, preparing and piloting of materials, sharing them with all project partners during transnational meeting and LTAs, experiencing them with students of participating schools and free educational institutes and finally publishing them on project web site, websites of partners and in E-twinning. This project also focuses on disadvantaged groups of students and tries to suggest methodology how to deal with them in blended learning. The impact of this projects includes a wide range of skills and experience to be gained by all direct participants, as well as indirect participants such as parents, other teachers and professionals in the partner regions. First of all, regional cooperation among different institutions will be deepened and personal relationships between public authorities and workers in various educational fields will be developed. All project leaders will enhance the skills of management, leadership, communication, foreign languages. Associated partners including national E-twinning centres, other educational institutes in the surroundings, local schools and school funders will be acquainted with this project and the programme Erasmus+. The long-term goal of this project is to create a strategy of use of digital technologies in the field of education, after the end of the project workers of educational institutes will encourage cross-sectorial cooperation, they will promote courses of ICT for teachers of different types of schools and cooperation of teachers on different educational levels. Activities aimed at sustainability of this project include spreading of project results through different channels. The digital manual and created worksheets will become an internal part of lessons in different subject.
The objective of this project was to give feedback about current digital skills of teachers in the Czech Republic, Germany and Spain, evaluate and compare IT tools which can be used in the classroom and share them with other teachers in the participating regions through courses organised by the educational institutes (VISK, Pedagogical institute R-P and CEPCadiz). This project followed the strategy of the European commission claiming that digital technology is changing people’s lives and the EU’s digital strategy aims to make this transformation work for people and businesses and therefore the education of the 21 century should follow this policy. We achieved to compare tool offered by Microsoft (in CZ), Google (in ES) and Intel (in DE). We also wanted to achieve sharing of innovative digital practices, to support the acquisition of key competences, including digital skills and to broaden our perception of the whole problem in accordance with our internationalisation strategies.
We applied for this project after a needs analysis was carried out in all participating schools. We have realised, that during the first phase of Covid and closures of schools connented with thas special situation, teachers were able to master the use of some ICT tools on different levels, however a systematic support from training institutes was needed. All involved training institutes provide a variety, diversified and contextualized trainings in instructional and assessment strategies, uniquely tailored to the needs of teachers, they cooperate with many schools and are able to share examples of best practice. We wanted to share this experience internationally.