Project "Robotic school of humanists" is implemented by the Polish School Complex of John Paul II in Grodzisko Dolne (coordinating the project) with the Lithuanian school Mazeikiai Senamiestis Low Secondary School, the Bulgarian First Primary School "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" and the Italian Istituto Comprensivo Statale "S. Quasimodo". The project was based on innovative teaching methods, where each school demonstrates its methodology, while learning about the other and thus introduces them in their own schools. The introduced methods will be the answer to the main goal of the project, which is to increase knowledge, skills and educational and social competences of students aged 10-15 and teachers by implementing in schools a teaching system based on a technological approach combined with theatrical activities during the project. However, the most important specific goals include motivating and engaging all children in the education process, developing their creativity, openness and teamwork skills. These skills will facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and development of key competences. Teachers will strengthen their professional competences in the use of new technologies, language, programming, theatre and cultural skills. Activities and mobility create a spiral program, because the same content is returning at ever higher levels, expanding their scope. The first is a meeting in Lithuania, which contains activities that give rise to the other plans to promote a comprehensive approach to teaching and foreign languages. Students will participate in integration classes through dance, music and ICT use. They will create etude scripts in international groups, in which they will take into account new skills and new technologies. They will also visit the local theatre. As a summary, a comic will be created showing their visit to Lithuania, using a computer program they've met. The next meeting will take place in Bulgaria. It will be based on materials developed in Lithuania and develop new competences. Teachers from Bulgaria have experience in innovative practices, during which they involve all children in the education process to increase their motivation, develop skills of analysis, presentation, positive communication, teamwork and prepare for successful implementation in a high technology society. They have extensive experience in performing arts, which is why we will use their experience. This visit will focus on the theatre warm-up. There will also be a competition for a theatre study based on a script written during a meeting in Lithuania. The final product will be an electronic collection of theatrical studies. The third meeting will take place in Poland, which will be the next step in learning about new methods of working with children. In international groups, students will work on various issues in the preparation of the final performance of the project based on Stanislaw Lem’s "Fables of Robots", which will eventually be staged in Italy. The meeting will end with a summary and presentation of the developed proposals. There will be three thematic blocks: learning the basics of programming on Lego sets, developing the script for the performance, stage design solutions. The last summarizing meeting will take place in Italy. The acquired knowledge and skills will be complemented by the extensive experience of the Italian school. Coding and development of information and communication technologies is one of the school's priorities, which is part of our priorities. Robotics is developed here at a high level and we will use it. Students will take part in robotics workshops with different types of robots than used in Poland, then we will try to introduce robots to the performance. The school has experience in connecting robots with art, so we'll use it. The result of the work will be a theatre performance using multimedia, robotics and of course theatre arts. All activities in the project will be in English, thanks to which we will naturally increase our language competence. The performance will complement the electronic collection of studies. The methodology includes active participation, learning from good practices, self-presentations and presentations, creative action, self-reflection, observation. The results, we want to achieve are primarily the implementation of innovative solutions in schools and the increase of key competences. Spreading will take place at regional, national and international level and will be directed in particular to teachers interested in teaching innovative methods, to students, parents and the local community. The innovative approach to education implemented in schools will have a long-term application and cooperation will be continued.
"Robotic school of humanists" project was implemented by the Polish school, the John Paul II School Complex in Grodzisko Dolne (coordinating the project) with the Lithuanian school Mazeikiai Senamiestis Low Secondary School, the Bulgarian First Primary School "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" and the Italian Istituto Comprensivo Statale "S. Quasimodo". The project was based on innovative teaching methods, where each school demonstrated its own methodology and at the same time got to know the others and thus introduced them in their own schools. The introduced methods were a response to the main goal of the project, which was to improve the knowledge, skills and educational and social competences of students aged 10-15 and teachers by implementing a teaching system in schools based on a technological approach combined with theatre activities during the project period. The most important specific goals included motivating and engaging all children in the education process, developing their creativity, openness and teamwork skills. The above-mentioned skills facilitated the acquisition of knowledge and the development of key competences. Teachers' professional competences in the use of new technologies, language, programming, theater and cultural skills were strengthened. The activities and mobilities created a spiral program because we returned to the same content during each mobility, expanding their scope. The first meeting took place in Lithuania, which included activities that formed the basis for other plans to promote a comprehensive approach to teaching and foreign languages. Students participated in integration activities by learning dance, music classes and learning how to use ICT. In international groups, they created comics that incorporated new skills and new technologies. To sum up, a comic book was created depicting their visit to Lithuania and comics presenting their school, using a computer program they had learned. The next meeting took place in Italy. The acquired knowledge and skills will be complemented by the rich experience of the Italian school. Coding and development of information and communication technologies is one of the school's priorities, which was in line with our priorities. Robotics is developed here at a high level and we took advantage of it. The students took part in robotics workshops with different types of robots than in Poland, then introduced the robots to the show. The school has experience in combining robots with art, so we used it. In international groups, students worked on various issues as part of the preparation of performances based on "Fairy Tales of Robots" by Stanisław Lem. There were four thematic blocks: learning the basics of programming using Lego sets, developing a performance script, set design solutions, multimedia in the performance. The results of the work were scripts and staged performances using multimedia, robotics and, of course, theater plays. The next meeting took place in Bulgaria. It developed new competences. Teachers from Bulgaria are experienced in innovative practices during which they engage all children in the educational process to increase their motivation, develop skills of analysis, presentation, positive communication, teamwork and prepare for successful implementation in a high-technology society. They have extensive experience in theatre arts, so we benefited from their experience. This visit focused on theatre warm-ups. There was also a competition for a theatre etude based on scripts written in international groups. The final product is an electronic collection of theatre etudes. The last summary meeting took place in Poland, which was the next step in learning new methods of working with children. There were robotics classes: building and programming LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 bricks, Kahoot - preparing robotic tasks, logo design using 3D pens, and theater classes. The methodology included active participation, learning from good practices, self-presentation and presentation, creative action, self-reflection, and observation. The results we achieved are primarily the implementation of innovative solutions in schools and the increase in key competences. The dissemination took place at regional, national and international levels and was aimed especially at teachers interested in teaching innovations, students, parents and the local community. The innovative approach to education implemented in schools has long-term applications, and cooperation is continued. All activities were in English, thanks to which we naturally improved our language skills.