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Media, social networks and ICT: opportunities for learning
Start date: Sep 1, 2015,
End date: Aug 31, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
The development of Information and Communication Technology and its gradual integration to our education systems are bringing about considerable changes in the role of teachers and students. The massive use of Internet and ICT by a digital born generation is creating new contexts for social relations and formal and informal learning. The media and social networks have a huge impact and power on individuals, groups and society and we need to reflect on the positive changes as well as the risks this new digital reality implies for its younger users. Participating in the information society requires digital skills in order to prevent exclusion and to reduce the digital gap, which may also become a source of new inequalities. Therefore, we consider digital citizenship as a priority objective for the schools of the 21st century.
We intend to use the impact of the media and ICT to promote common positive values, improve the quality of our curricula and contribute to a better school environment. By looking at how participating countries are addressing an issue which affects directly our students´ personal development and their relationships within our school environment, our project will be complementary to the work already carried out by school staff and management in that field.
By working together, participants from socio-economically and culturally diverse countries of Europe (Italy, Poland, Spain, Latvia, Turkey, UK and Greece) will collect relevant data and analyze the impact of the media, Internet and social networks on students, schools and our community as a whole. At the same time, we aim to promote the incorportation of ICT in the teaching-learning process, improve our students´digital competence and promote a responsible use of ICT, using a series of creative and challenging activities.
About 3000 students and teachers from 7 different countries will be involved in the project´s activities and about 250 of them will participate in mobilities. Our project is based on active student participation, peer-to-peer learning as senior students will be prepared to participate in the implementation of some of the activities at their own schools after taking part in a learning activity and mobility.
The main results of the project will include the creation of EU corners in each school, the implementation of surveys to raise awareness of the media impact and the production school and joint digital magazines, blogs and website, followed by the elaboration of a guide to promote responsible digital citizenship. We will pay special attention to the issue of cyberbullying, so other outcomes will be cyberassessment training workshops, workshops and webinars for students and parents, as well as the production of a series of short films on this subject and a book of short stories.
Working with staff and students from other European countries will give partner schools an opportunity to share good practices, learn from one another and lay the basis which will ensure lasting cooperation.
For all participants, it will increase the awareness of sharing common European values and traditions and at the same time contribute to a better understanding of our social and cultural differences.