Our main priority is to address digital transformation through the development of digital readiness by supporting school leaders, teachers, and other members of the educational world. In this way, we aim to tackle learning disadvantage, early school leaving, and low proficiency in basic skills. Therefore, our project has been guided by seven key objectives: OBJ 1: to support digital technologies in education. OBJ 2: to develop virtual cooperation between all partners through the eTwinning platform. OBJ 3: to collect and compile 10 examples considered as good practices at the European level on the topic of Active Methodologies. OBJ 4: to develop vodcasts that has been guidelines to explain the good practices compiled. OBJ 5: to support teachers with a MOOC that they can run at their own pace in which they learnt how to use the good practices with the vodcast orientation. OBJ 6: to promote discussion about environmental issues and reflect on greener ways of implementing project activities, through the creation of an exclusive green label, encouraging the non-printing of the work packages. OBJ 7: to share experiences and good practices at local, national, and international levels, teachers, and local author
Before the pandemic, attitudes were already evolving toward the digitalization of education, as demonstrated by the "Digital Education Action Plan", which was already under construction when the pandemic started. The latter showed us just how useful new technologies can be, particularly in education. However, not all teachers are trained or able to use these new technologies effectively for their pupils. Moreover, we often assume that because our students have grown up with phones, tablets, and computers, they are proficient in using new technologies. However, their actual skills are often quite limited. When students were required to go online for classes, submit assignments, or use an online platform or app, some of them struggled to do so without assistance. As stated by the European Commission “more than 1 in 5 young people across the EU fail to reach a basic level of digital skills” and at the same time “a 2018 OECD study found less than 40% of educators felt ready to use digital technologies in teaching, with wide differences across the EU”. With our project, we sought to improve digital readiness, resilience, and capacity to promote digital transformation hoping it would help in implementing digitalization.