The Project "SOS: It is time to take action for Technology Addiction " will be implemented by a partnership consisting of six secondary schools from different European countries:Romania, Turkey, Holland, Czech Republic, Italy, Poland. Some of them are State General Education schools and some of them Vocational School It will be a two-year project. We'll carry out 6 LTT activities. 4 students (at the age of 14-18) and 2 teachers will join for every project meeting. It is building on ongoing Etwinning project . The National ID is 216194 The project will also be community-centered. By collaboration with various local institutions and informal groups of people, we hope to enhance the local social capital in our city and partners cities and make it a better place to live. The project will offer an extremely stimulating and developing experience for the students that will change their attitudes and perception of the world, influence their life choices, give them the drive to pursue their aims, bring out their hidden skills, help them to become active and conscious members of their local communities, nations and truly European citizens. Each Mobility we will celebrate Safer Internet Day (SID) is a worldwide event that raises awareness about online safety and encourages everyone to help create a better internet, is to inspire a national conversation about using technology responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively, runs a helpline, and works closely with youth to ensure an evidence-based, multi-stakeholder approach to creating a better internet. We will organise a safety technology campaign in every country. The aim of these activities is removing students from the harm of internet and technology, showing healthy usage them. We (co.and partners)'ll deal with various forms of Technology such as geocatching, preparing apps, animation with scratch, augmented reality, e book for students and teachers stories for triggering and developing technology perspective of students, to help them enriching and bringing out their hidden 21st Century skills. By using non-academic activities, we want to attract all types of students lazy, shy, poor, hardworking..., students who don't have time to bring out their skills or the students who don't want to participate in social activities or who see social activites unnecessary because of the technological development, who have domestic economic problems and give them a chance to feel important, build their personality and selfconfidence. We'll create joint end products: the logo of the project, online safety tool kit, leaflet of cyberbullying, preparing apps, magazine of useful ways of ICT, digital art magazine, preparing public spot, project blog, utube channel, and a set of lesson plans for lessons conducted in ICT institutions. Working together with representatives of other nations' ICT institutions we'll raise awareness of ınternet addiction. To achieve objectives of our project, we'll do various kinds of activities, such as workshops, competitions, exhibitions, evaluations... that other institutions like other schools in our localities, ICT centres, children homes will be taken part in. The activities are aimed not only to create end products, but also to form attitudes of entrepreneurship and leadership, teach teamwork skills, perform well in new situations, cooperate with people of different backgrounds, develop 21st century students skills, develop foreign language skill, form resources for UNICEF and WHO, learn new teaching methods, form a sense of national identity by attending lessons ICT centres We will disseminate project by doing: 1. presentations of exchange results in teachers’ meetings (students) 2. updates of the Erasmus+ spaces in schools 7. materials (articles, photos, testimonials) uploaded on the school websites 8. articles published in local media, interviews for local radio and TV Project-based learning, live and learn, social interaction model, Evaluation methods, Enquiry-based learning approach, Question-answer, Discussion, Brainstorming, Hands-on method, Place-based education to ensure active involvement of the students in the activities are methodologies while we are implementing the project. Project is student-centered, the students will be all project activities at all stages from preparation to evaluation, dissemination of its results and teachers'll only guide them. We'll upload all tangible project results to the school websites, the joint project website and to the European database, give reports, evaluation results to National Education and Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology to maintain some curricula changes, form ICT resources for UNICEF and Public Education Center, Scientific and Technological Research Institution and Safer Internet Centres.We'll find chance for removing our students from bad usage of tech and taking them in nature, improving their psychical- psychological health, their social skills with this project
The project “SOS: It’s time to take action for technology addiction” originated from the necessity to raise students’ awareness regarding the multiple benefic uses of ICT technologies and the negative consequences associated with internet addiction. This key-priority emerged before the submission of the project, as the initiative resumed an ongoing eTwinning project with a wide range of collaborative results. We hoped to focus on the students’ acquisition of 21st century digital skills and competences while increasing their social and civic participation to the life of the community. In other words, a proportion of the project activities targeted the use of technology in a safe, responsible and innovative manner, and another segment introduced healthy and entertaining alternatives to reduce the students’ online time. With a good project planning and implementation, we aimed to improve students’ development from many angles, enhancing their creativity, motivation, cooperative skills, emotional intelligence and decision-making. A great number of activities focused on revealing the genuine risks and dangers of the internet (cyberbullying, identity theft, hacking etc.) in an attempt to teach students internet safety awareness. Also, with intriguing physical, outdoor and handicraft activities, we hoped to divert students’ attention from visual games and stimulants towards sports, art and culture. Originally there were 6 schools in the project but the partner in Netherlands quit shortly after the start of the project due to medical reasons, leaving Romania, Turkey, Czechia, Italy and Poland as project partners. Each school deals with similar difficulties regarding internet addiction and students’ reluctance to engage in social, artistic and cultural activities. The teaching staffs display different degrees of experience and expertise in the field of ICT, which offered the prerequisites of a mutually beneficial exchange of ideas, strategies, didactic techniques, to ensure that students gain a successful ICT education. Each partner school hosted a project event which involved a short-term exchange of groups of pupils, however the original planning was altered due to the Covid restrictions and other objective factors including holidays or school commitments. The activities followed the guidelines in the application and the tasks originally assigned to the partner in the Netherlands were redistributed. The teachers and students had the opportunity to create reusable teaching and learning materials during the project activities. The interaction with other cultures gave students the chance to develop their awareness of the European dimension, improve their English language skills, build their self-esteem and social competences. The selection of participating students was performed before the mobilities according to predetermined criteria. Both host students and exchange students prepared materials under the supervision and coordination of their teachers. The dissemination of the project was carried out by all partners through various channels of communication to reach as many members of the community as possible.