The wanted to achieve the following: - Ameliorating the pupils`understanding on the modern digital devices for personal use and the complex processes inside - Closing the gap between pupils in dealing with cheap and expensive gadgets and respective technologies embedded into these - Strengthening the sense of necessity of education among pupils and their relatives. The general project objective was to provide a simplified hardware and software model of a digital device which is adapted to pupils from families with economic or integration impediments and could be understood by their relatives in order to strengthen both the positive attitude towards school as well as the link between parents and teachers. The specific objectives of the project were: - Introducing the anatomy of a hardware system to pupils in an interesting and easy-to-understand way - Acknowledging the pupils with the basic software processes and simplified algorithmic programming - Providing a close look to modern aspects in creating interactive elements within partnership based on the EU values
Pupils in remote and depopulated areas and from low income families as usual acquire digital devices when the models become obsolete. This prevents being in line with the latest features of the digital tools. In this way such pupils fall behind their peers in coping with digital devices and become more and more digitally divided. In this regard the project has been aimed to address deficiencies of these pupils in understanding the latest achievements of the digital technologies and to shorten the lag in coping with advanced software applications. This has been motivated by the initiating partners P1 and P2 as schools operating in such rural, remote and depopulated areas of the country primarily with pupils from families facing economic and integration difficulties. Relevant support has been rendered by the rest of the partners. The addressed needs were the following: - Overcoming distrust of being capable to master up-to-date digital devices - Understanding that knowledge on hardware and software could be developed independently from the practical possession of digital devices - Understanding that any digital device should serve to the user and not be seen as a mark for the social status which divides people