SOPHIE aimed to work with at least 157 students between 9 and 14 years old, 96 school staff members and 81 families from Spain, Italy, Greece and Slovenia to tackle early school leaving and foster digital inclusion, resilience and safety among students, by promoting inclusive and safe access to online learning, and actively involving teachers, educators, and families. Its objectives were to provide the school community with guidelines, tools, and strategies to: - Recognize and safely and critically address the risks connected to the use of the Internet, with particular attention to cyber-bullying. - Detect difficulties that primary school students might be experiencing in terms of access and in the online learning environment and to address them adequately. - Generate tools for teachers and families to support, accompany, and guide students during their online learning. Those objectives were met through: 1. Workshops for students 2. Trainings for school staff 3. Trainings for families 4. The SOPHIE handbook 5. The SOPHIE Card Game for Families 6. The SOPHIE Infographic 7. The SOPHIE 4 videos All the results are available on the website https://www.sophieproject.eu
The outbreak of Covid-19 represented a drastic change in the way schools, students and their families approach education. Teachers had to rethink teaching and start using online platforms, however, most of them had not enough training or were reluctant to adapt their methodologies to online learning. Children needed help from their families, however, not all of them had the knowledge and time to be able to give the needed support. Many did not have access to computers and the Internet. On the other hand, the situation of confinement meant lack of social interaction and participation in leisure activities, with the consequence that children spent more time using smartphones, tablets, and computers, making more evident and urgent the need to address children’s digital safety. SOPHIE aimed to address the NEEDS emerged in the partner countries: - Raise awareness around the risks connected to the use of the Internet - Develop methodologies to prepare teachers, families, and children to recognize and respond to them - Improve collaboration between school and families - Provide digital training for teachers and families - Use easier and more accessible platforms in order to make online education more inclusive.