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EUROPEAN DIGI-CLASS

2020-1-SK01-KA229-0782192020School Exchange Partnershipsfinalized
Countries: SK|RO|HU|IT|MK|TR · Grant: €190,848
Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learningCreativity and cultureICT - new technologies - digital competences

Project summary

21st-century students are called the Z generation. As schools that we educate this generation, with our project we aim to improve students' technological competences and to develop interactive sources which are prepared by the way of this project which will increase the interest and success of pupils. In our project, including Physic, English, Art, Literature Interactive course materials will be prepared by using web 2 tools and they will be actively applied in lessons. The main aim of our project is to increase success of students in school subjects by using technology in education.Our aim is to educate individuals who understand, interpret, conduct and evaluate technology and design to assure their being technology literacy. At least 24 teachers who show interest in the diversification and modernization of teaching methods and the tools used, will prepare in school students' activities, which will be done during the short-term joint staff training events, will gain skills for working with web 2.0 tools to contribute to students' competencies, for their life-time skills and future jobs. In the meantime, our pupils will gain the ability of collaboration, communication, team working being self-confidence and having responsibility. 120 students who will be participants to all mobilities, from the six schools, will be the nucleus for a big change in all partners' schools. Thanks to the meetings which will be held during the project, the cultural awareness between students and teachers will be increased the competences of managing project of the administrators and teachers of common schools will be improved. The impact envisaged by the project will be a change of attitude and better skills for making learning materials adapted to students' needs and desires. The potential longer-term benefits will be a change of attitude of students for learning, and for teachers to choose new methods, to modernize their lessons, so each of the six schools to become examples for their communities. Interactive School Subject Materials will be prepared in order to universalize our project and will be sent to all local and national public educational institutions, non-governmental organizations and private educational institutions. All the activities, concrete results and info and photos about LTTs during the project will be shared project official web site, Facebook page of the project, Instagram page of the project. We will use effectively social media to disseminate our project. Thus we will transfer our project to a wider public at the European level. At local level the project will be announced to educational authorities, public and private educational organizations and all high schools' teachers and staff, local and national media and press, parents of pupils, other staff in the schools by the way of sending brochures and posters, organizing conferences and workshops so dissemination at local level will be ensured.

Final report summary

The implemented project was based on the analysis of the needs of students of this generation, resulting from the research and own observations. The 21 st century students, called the Z generation, can easily adopt to new technology , have analytical thinking skills, know what they want and are open to innovation and creativity. In most cases, pedagogues agree that school is not very attractive for them and therefore it is necessary to engage them, improve and modernize teaching through ICT. The objectives of our project were like these: -to ensure innovative teaching methods and use technology maximum level in school environment -to improve students‘ technological competences -to increase the number of interactive school subject materials using web 2 tools and to increase the success of students and schools -to make students more active in educational environment The students passed their leisure time more efficiently, preparing interactive subject materials for school. They worked in school clubs. Some materials were prepared during the lessons. These materials were used during the lessons of English, literature, physics and Art. Participating in the project increased the language level and competences of students and teachers in the project, ensured cultural interaction and awareness with project activities. International meetings ensured effective cooperation, communication, and teamwork between pupils and teachers involved in the project. Another benefit was the increase of the competences of preparing a project and management capacity of teachers , increased education and teaching competences at school by the way of interactive teaching materials that were prepared by the pupils during the project. Concrete Results: students learned how to use web 2 tools and how to prepare them for school subjects. .EU Digi-Class Cd and magazine were prepared by every partner school . Each partner created their own European Digi class web site which presented activities, photos, outputs, news about the project and interactive school subject materials.Some of them were also uploaded on school web site, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. European Digi-Class Magazine introduced web 2 tools and activities about the project. By using Web 2 Tools and producing interactive school subject materials, the students had the chance to learn innovative methods in the digital era. They could use technology for their school subjects. This innovative approach and digital technologies for teaching and learning Web 2 technology is innovative teaching method that is used widely in the world. With this project, we used these tools in our lessons and the students were educated in a funny and effective way. The teachers also had the chance to use this innovative technology for their lessons. we can evaluate this approach very positively. .Thanks to the training and workshops that were held during LTT, students and teachers learned about Web 2.0 tools and also learned how to use these tools for their school subjects. So, the objectives of the project were achieved, to learn and to teach web 2.0 tools in school environment. Students used innovative methods to learn, which helped them to have no difficulty in using technology in their future and professional lives. Students became aware of the role of technology and innovation in education. The importance of using the technology was explained by the way of work and local workshops, exhibitions and training. Cultural interactions between countries was learned during transnational meetings. With the historical visits during the LTT students had the chance to learn about new cultures and and European citizenship. Teamwork was ensured while students and teachers were preparing school subjects using web 2.0 tools. They learned responsibility and gaining self-esteem at the same time. The directors and teachers of the partner schools managed the projects, did planned activities and participated in mobility and LTT Thus they reached the goal of increasing the skills of project preparation and the management capacity of the teachers. The common language of the project was English, materials were prepared in English, so we can conclude that this project contributed to increasing communication skills in English. The envisaged impact of the project is a change of attitude and better skills for making learning materials, adapted to students‘ needs and desires. The longer-term benefits are a change of attitude of students for learning, and for teachers to choose new methods , to modernize their lessons. Interactive school subject materials were prepared in order to universalize the project and were sent to some local educational institutions, non-governmental organizations and private educational institutions. We also used effectively social media to disseminate the project.

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