This project is a collaboration between schools in Sweden (Stockholm), Germany (Friedrichshafen), France (La Réunion) and Spain (Mataró). While taking part in another KA2 project the participating schools in France, Sweden and Germany came to the conclusion that we experience similar difficulties and problems related to our students’ activities and experiences with social media and the digital world. The project aims at improving our students’ digital awareness; more specifically their ability to recognize, prevent and avoid cyberbullying as well as their ability to choose and verify sources of information (detect fake identities and fake news). We also want to make them more aware of the “digital footprints” they leave and the long lasting effects those may have on everyone's lives. The matter of hate speech and communication online in general will be dealt with, as well as identity theft and how one can protect oneself from it. The students will gain insight into how these issues are experienced in different countries. The project will run for 24 months and will comprise one transnational preparation meeting, four student mobility meetings (Learning Teaching Training Activities) and a final visit to the EU parliament in Brussels. Between mobilities the students and staff will collaborate with the help of eTwinning and other means of digital communication. There will be four Learning Teaching Training (LTT) activities involving exchanges of groups of pupils. Each mobility meeting will involve six to eight students and two or three teachers from each country. Each partner will be visited by the other partners for the duration of three to five days. Teachers will stay at colleagues' homes and students will stay with local students' families. During the LTT's there will be several workshops at the hosting school to work on project objectives. Between the mobilities, the participating students will work and prepare for the tasks that will be worked on in the workshops during the LTT's. The schools also plan to involve the rest of the students as part of the ordinary lessons in different subjects or as extracurricular activities. To round up the project we will visit the EU parliament in Brussels to present our results to EU parliamentarians of each participating country and to visit and find out about the European Parliament. The working language will be English. Each mobility meeting will have a final product, i.e. films, posters, short stories, online presentations, etc. Before and between mobilities, the students will conduct preparatory work in their respective schools in the form of surveys, research, discussions and writing presentations on TwinSpace. With this project we hope to improve: Student competences: improved overall digital awareness improved skills in finding and verifying sources of information improved skills in detecting fake identities and “fake news” improved awareness of the gap between online and real-life identities improved skills in recognizing and dealing with online hate speech and cyberbullying improved foreign language skills Staff competences: improved overall digital awareness improved skills in teaching about digital awareness improved skills in recognizing and preventing online hate speech and cyberbullying improved skills in dealing with the effects of online hate speech and cyberbullying on students improved skills in facing the challenges of social media infiltration into the classrooms and schoolwork improved foreign language skills The main goal of the project is to enhance digital awareness for both students and educational workers in our schools. We aim to achieve that through comparing and analyzing the current challenges arising from the increased use of social media, both in and out of the classroom. We will also try to cooperate for providing solutions for some of the more common problems related to social media. Another goal of the project is to provide students and staff with new methods to deal with the issues of online hate speech, fake identity, digital footprints and fake news.
This project is a collaboration between schools in Sweden (Stockholm), Germany (Friedrichshafen), France (La Réunion) and Spain (Mataró). While taking part in another KA2 project the participating schools in France, Sweden and Germany came to the conclusion that we experience similar difficulties and problems related to our students’ activities and experiences with social media and the digital world. The project aimed to improve our students’ digital awareness; more specifically their ability to recognize, prevent and avoid cyberbullying as well as their ability to choose and verify sources of information (detect fake identities and fake news). We also wanted to make them more aware of the “digital footprints” they leave and the long lasting effects those may have on everyone's lives. The matter of hate speech and communication online in general was dealt with, as well as internet addiction and how one could protect oneself from it. The students gained insight into how these issues are experienced in different countries. The project should have run for 24 months but due to the pandemic it was extended for 12 more months. It comprised one transnational preparation meeting, four student mobility meetings (Learning Teaching Training Activities) Between mobilities we planned to collaborate with the help of eTwinning and other means of digital communication but with the shutdown of the eTwinning platform we agreed to use Google sites instead. There were four Learning Teaching Training (LTT) activities involving exchanges of groups of pupils. Mobility meetings C1, C2 and C3 involved six to eight students and two or three teachers from each country. Mobility meeting C4 involved 8 students and 2 teachers from Germany, Spain and Sweden. France did not take part due to a safety alert from their national educational minister. Each partner was visited by the other partners for the duration of at least five days. Teachers stayed at different accommodations and students stayed with local host families. During the LTT's there were several workshops at the hosting school to work on project objectives. Between the mobilities, the participating students worked and prepared for the tasks that were worked on in the workshops during the LTT's. The schools also involved the rest of the students as part of the ordinary lessons in different subjects or as extracurricular activities. The working language was English. Each mobility meeting had a final product, i.e. films, posters, short stories, online presentations, etc. Before and between mobilities, the students conducted preparatory work in their respective schools in the form of surveys, research, discussions and writing presentations . The main goal of the project was to enhance digital awareness for both students and educational workers in our schools. We aimed to achieve that through comparing and analyzing the current challenges arising from the increased use of social media, both in and out of the classroom. We cooperated to provide solutions for some of the more common problems related to social media. Another goal of the project was to educate students and staff with new methods to deal with the issues of online hate speech, internet addiction, digital identity and fake news.