Context/Background of project: The project European Fellowship for Digital Citizenship (e.F.4.D.C.) is being launched from a school in Rapallo, in Northern Italy in the province of Genova. Over the last few years this school has set up, in the journalism field, the very first National information blog organised by students for students (sharing school). This blog has received various awards and this has led to the creation of a first-year class in our Grammar School dedicated to Journalism, Media and Communication. PROJECT SUMMARY Objectives of project: There are three project objectives: 1)Following the example of the Italian blog, other national blogs will be created on the same platform in the language of the host schools while at the same time an International page will be created entirely in English; 2)Participants will learn how to create digital contents which are not merely informative, but which will focus on the experience of a blog company for social activities, learning how to distinguish between the different contents produced, indexing them, distributing them and targeting them in the same way as would happen within an information supply chain; 3) Participants will acquire full digital citizenship, both from a technical point of view – being able to produce and organise contents according to SEO and SEM rules – but also from a critical point of view, thanks to the ability to recognise and distinguish between true and fake news, promoting a cultural awareness able to strengthen democracies and social cohesion on an international level. The number and profile of participants Besides the project coordinator, the “Da Vigo-Nicoloso” High School in Rapallo, there are five other participating schools, the 1° GENIKO LYKIO EDESSAS “NIKOLAOS OIKONOMIDIS” from Edessa, Greece; the Ozel Esayan Ermeni Lisesi from Istanbul, Turkey ; the Liceul cu Program Sportiv from Suceava in Romania ; the Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Adama Mickiewicza from Sulecin in Poland and IES Augustóbriga, from Navalmoral de la Mata, in Spain. For each of these schools 2 teachers and 5 students will participate in each exchange. As there will be 6 exchanges each school can allow from 2 to 12 teachers to take part and between 5 and 30 students. The choice will be at the discretion of each individual school. The students must all be between 15 and 18, while there are no prerequisites for the teachers. The common language for the project will be English. Description of activities Our project consists of the creation of a digital editorial team which deals not only with the production of textual and visual contents, but also with all aspects related to digital experience, from digital security, content indexing (SEO; SEM), responsible digital citizenship, a dossier for in-depth study to project dissemination to the editorial office. All this will be done through the creation of five international digital teams which belong to the partners involved. On this basis we will organize six short exchanges in the involved countries. In each exchange we foresee three type of activities: a) A training course – led by established professionals in the sector - focalized on one of the five themes of our project work; b) A series of laboratories – led by the teachers who will accompany the participants - one for each theme of project work – in which pupils will work together, learning the different skills (working groups, social inclusion of differences and disabilities, mediation…); laboratories and training will take place simultaneously; c) A final event that disseminates the results of the training course to the population of the host school. Between the short exchanges pupils and teachers will work and produce materials or digital contents through the eTwinning dedicated project twinspace. Methodology to be used in carrying out the project: The project is based on learning by doing, thanks to which the students will learn in different situations and in an active and public working context where they will continually be faced with the results of their performance , and of task based learning in which the attribution of specific tasks will help to stimulate personal analysis in order to acquire new skills and abilities. Finally, besides BYOD, peer and mentoring education will be essential and represent the real strength of a project which not by chance has as its focal point sharing. Results and impact: For the participating schools the activities proposed are in actual fact just a starting point: 1)All the participating schools will develop hard skills in the digital field and soft skills in team work which will be useful both in the world of work and for the digital citizenship training of their peers when the project has concluded; 2)The project has the obvious requisites to be feasible and repeatable in a national and international context.
The project European Fellowship for Digital Citizenship (e.F.4.D.C.) has been launched from a school in Rapallo, in Northern Italy in the province of Genova. Over the last few years this school has set up, in the journalism field, the very first National information blog organized by students for students (sharing.school). This blog has received various awards. The following project objectives have been reached: 1) Other national blogs have been created on the same platform as the Italian blog in the language of the host schools, while at the same time an International page has been created entirely in English; 2) The participants have learnt how to create digital contents. They learnt how to distinguish between the different contents produced and how to distribute them in the same way as would happen within an information supply chain too; 3) The participants acquired full digital citizenship, both from a technical point of view but also from a critical point of view, thanks to the ability to recognize and distinguish between true and fake news, promoting a cultural awareness able to strengthen democracy and social cohesion on an international level. During the project many activities were carried out: the creation of a digital editorial team dealing not only with the production of textual and visual contents, but also with all aspects related to digital experience, from digital security to responsible digital citizenship. All this was done through the creation of five international digital teams which belong to the partners involved. On this basis we organized six short exchanges in the countries involved. In each exchange we conducted three types of activities: a) A training course – led by established professionals in the sector - focalized on one of the five themes of our project work; b) A series of laboratories – led by the teachers who accompanied the participants - one for each theme of the project work – in which pupils worked together, learning the different skills (working groups, social inclusion of differences, mediation…) c) A final informal event that disseminated the results of the training course to the population of the host school. The project was based on learning by doing and on task-based learning in which the attribution of specific tasks helped to stimulate personal analysis in order to acquire new skills and abilities. Finally, peer and mentoring education were essential and represented the real strength of the project. Through this project we reached following results: 1) All the participating schools developed hard skills in the digital field and soft skills in team work which will be useful both in the world of work and for the digital citizenship training of their peers when the project has been concluded; 2) The awareness of the differences between cultures, not only in the way of organizing work, but also in the actual approach to the digital world. 3) The consolidated perception of the difference between real and virtual and the acquisition of a greater critical sense of information and interactions in the digital world. The project was the beginning of a complex work which had its important moments in the exchange of information and experiences: the students learned a working method to distinguish the true information from the false and to express their digital citizenship more effectively. The secret of this project is that the development of shared ideas is entrusted entirely to the countries that have received them as a gift. What is certain is that from today a single site, equipped with a common section and six different national pages, unites six nations of the continent and is ready to host others.