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"Living apart, learning together: We Europeans 2.0".

2020-1-NL01-KA229-0645262020School Exchange Partnershipsfinalized
Countries: NL|IT|EL|ES|LT|PT · Grant: €11,000
Disabilities - special needsEU Citizenship, EU awareness and DemocracyICT - new technologies - digital competences

Project summary

“Living apart, learning together: We Europeans 2.0”. The title of the project is “ Living apart, learning together : We Europeans 2.0”, whose main aim is to work on the development of tolerance, learning about other cultures, knowing and respecting differences and looking for similarities of the life styles in partner countries. This with a worldly look in a digital and international environment. Six primary schools from 6 different countries, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy are working together in this project. It will be a good opportunity for our children to establish links with pupils of the same age in other schools at European level and work together on topics of interest, in a digital and international environment. The main themes of the project are: Let's introduce ourselves; My skool; My home town, my region; My country, part of the European home (national customs and traditions). With using tools "'Social media and the use of it" and "Basic digital skills and to create a learning environment". Communication using (social) media is an important part of the project. Means of communication will include on line (news-)-papers, facebook, Instagram, twitter, skype etc. All participating teachers and students use these forms of communication, either individually or collectively within groups. Our students live in a world inundated with various forms of online communication technologies. The aim of the partner schools is to teach both students and teachers use basic digital skills and to create a learning environment that encourages students to explore social media safely and responsibly. The participating schools learn to use social media in a safe internet way and in an educational setting, thus improving their ability to connect with "European 21st century students ". Within the scope of this project we focus on our students talents, both academically and otherwise. Each partnerschool has chosen a talenttopic in which their students excel (i.e. sports, creative writing, music, dance, coding and storyboarding etc.). The six participating schools each host a meeting where students showcase their talents, hereby inspiring the partner schools. Visiting students report to their peers using a variety of social media, while teachers study ways to use these social media in their own teaching. Workshops for both students and teachers improve their digital skills. The visiting groups of students and teachers will return home to share their newly acquired skills and the schools start working on the talent as showcased by the host school. The results will be shared, again using social media.The effective use of social media in the schools will increase because of the improved skills of both students and teachers, and because of the teachers' improved ability to use new technology in their teaching. The focus on a variety of talents, both academic and creative, will have a long term effect on the confidence and selfconfidence of the students, contributing a more positive attitude towards learning, where motivation, autonomy and self-efficacy play an important role. Other focus areas are: Promoting the professional development of staff and teachers in ICT methodologies; Working on the revising and strengthening of the professional profile of the teaching professions; Discussion about new technologies and digital competences; Set up new innovative curricula/educational methods; Development of training courses; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; To have students who like to learn, with a worldly look in a digital and international environment and "To contribute to a shared understanding of being a European citizen."

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