For the "The Witness' Eye" proposal, we start from the analysis of a critical context, such as that of the current Covid-19 pandemic, and the answers that each country has given to live with this context. In the field of education, requirements have emerged linked to the digital skills of primary and secondary school learners and to the skills and tools in their possession to capture and maintain the attention of students, especially during the DAD. In addition, important and fundamental categories for a country, such as those of the entire Art and Culture sector, and of an entire important tertiary sector linked to creativity and interconnected with education, have been practically forgotten. The MAIN OBJECTIVES of our project therefore want to combine the need of cultural operators and artists, with the need for teachers and educators, to stimulate the attention of students in this critical context, both in the teaching "in presence" and "remotely". Teachers and educators will be direct beneficiaries of 9 audiovisual teaching modules that will serve them to develop creative paths of theater, music, dance and painting in support of education, suggesting activities that support both DAD and teaching "in presence" in the times of Covid. The TARGET GROUPS that we will address from a design point of view will be: Target Direct Group (primary and secondary school teachers/educators) Indirect Target Group (students 8-14 years) Organizations Stakeholders (Territorial School Offices, Cultural Associations, Publishers and Publishing Houses, digital and on-demand TV channels, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Rai, Rai Play) The cooperation partner countries ITALY, SPAIN, MACEDONIA, BULGARIA, SWEDEN AND NORWAY, have organizations engaged in the field of education and want to provide accessible tools to any teacher anywhere in the world, at any time. These measures will strengthen the digital skills and creative mediation skills of "in-person" and "remotely" teaching in teachers, in order to improve their students' educational performance as a result. Each LTT activity will be resumed, recorded, and mounted to form a themed Teaching Module, in the language of the country in which it takes place and translated and/or subtitled in English. Activities will include: C1 Digitization and Teachers METIVA (EN) C2 Mediation of Methodologies and Contents METIVA (EN) C3 Narration Theater METIVA (EN) C4 Creative Writing METIVA (EN) C5 Music for Educational SCIENTIA NOVA (MK) C6 Media Literacy and Arts ESPACIO ROJO (ES) C7 Music and Folk Dance SUKM (BG) C8 Dance Theatre NORDIC HORIZON (SE) C9 Young People and Creative Education INTERLUDE UNGDOMS (NO) Together with the PICSAT ABRUZZO crew, composed of 3 technicians, the participants in the activities are: - 1 teacher/educator (+18 years) of primary or secondary school - 1 cultural operator/artist (+18 years) for each partner country. - 10 young people/students from 8 to 14 years of age for each partner country. - 1 project manager (+18 years) for each partner country (total 6) Of these participants only 6 project managers + 3 of the PICSAT ABRUZZO crew will participate in mobility. In addition to the 9 themed Teaching Modules, the following will be realized: - 1 Documentary, about 50 minutes, in English, on the possibilities and techniques for creative teaching mediation both "in presence" and "remotely". - 1 Miniseries in 12 episodes, subtitled in English, lasting 30' episode, with a narrative cut of a pedagogical character. All these elements constitute the intellectual output O1. The innovative aspect of our intellectual output is above all in the language "in the first person" through which it communicates, both in the Educational Modules and in the Documentary and miniseries, through, precisely, "The Eye of the Witness – The Witness' Eye". It is a language that communicates not through caption notions but through Emotional Learning, an emphatic process, based on Emotional Intelligence, on recognizing and recognizing one another. The sharing of personal experiences and experiences reveals a sense of belonging. The opening of emotional communication channels to mediate teaching makes it much more effective and penetrating. Expected IMPACT: - better the school results of the students - greater gratification of teachers in carrying out their profession. - number of teachers who will see the Educational Modules and Documentaries - number of teachers who will use the methodology in their profession - number of requests received from educational institutions to carry out activities in schools in "mixed mode" or "remotely" - number of views of the YouTube channel "The Witness' Eye" and the project blog.
By implementing the project, we achieved several main goals: - Created a bridge between the art and culture sector and the education sector, allowing cultural operators and artists to continue their activity and to find new opportunities for student involvement. - Provided teachers and educators with tools and resources to stimulate students' attention in a critical context such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Through the audiovisual teaching modules, we have offered creative paths in theatre, music, dance and painting that could support both distance and face-to-face teaching. - Directly involved both teachers and educators as beneficiaries of the audiovisual teaching modules, and students between the ages of 8 and 17, offering them creative activities and experiences that could fuel their interest and involvement. -Created a collaboration and cooperation network with different organizations and stakeholders in the education sector, cultural associations, publishers and digital and on demand TV channels. This collaboration would have broadened the audience and reach of the project, fostering its dissemination and sustainability.
We recognized the importance and relevance of the needs that were emerging in the context of education during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was evident that K-12 teachers were facing challenges related to digital skills and the ability to engage students in distance learning. Additionally, we realized that the arts, culture and creative services sector had been significantly impacted and often overlooked during this critical period. It was essential to find solutions that combined the needs of cultural operators and artists with those of teachers and educators, in order to stimulate students' attention in a complex context. The main objectives of our project were therefore to provide tools and resources to cultural operators, artists, teachers and educators to develop creative paths of theatre, music, dance and painting that could support education both during distance learning and in presence during the pandemic. The direct target group we addressed were primary and lower secondary school teachers and educators.