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Transmedia: a new narrative that involves communication and education towards the future classroom
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Aug 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Transmedia is not a new term. It has been borrowed by education from the film production sector as it engages students in a more self-learning way. Education has proved too slow to follow the new ways that the students learn. Various platforms, social media, rapidly changing technology are only some of the issues that education has to face. The students already share knowledge in a way that the school finds difficult to follow. Their individual knowledge becomes collective by sharing stories, experiences and thoughts rapidly. By following this stream of information in the school, teachers have a unique way of leading students to think critically, share their knowledge, be more creative and gain the desired goals, either set by the school or by them. It's a way of interpreting a story (knowledge in our case) and personalize it in each one's perspective.
"Transmedia: a new narrative that involves communication and education towards the future classroom" (COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION BY TRANSMEDIA-CET, as short name) is an Erasmus+ Project shared by four secondary schools from Spain, Italy, Cyprus and Romania, one primary school from Cyprus, one Teachers' Training Centre from Portugal and one university from Spain. The partners have been chosen very carefully as all of them have to offer a significant addition to the project. They have all worked together before in various and different ways and that assures for a cooperative, group work performed in the best way. From the lower levels of education to the highest, the scale covers all aspects and all views of the project.
Transmedia, is a project about new technologies in the school, about the best that these technologies bring to the schools and about the problems that the schools have to solve when they are not used in the proper way. In general, the project addresses the question of using technologies in school curriculum in the best and safest way, the creation and implementation of the appropriate tools to do that, the problems with licensed software and their availability to the schools and families of minor opportunities, either economical or social. We aim to lower the gap between education and technology, to engage our students in learning by using the technologies used outside school but in the best way possible. Most importantly, we aim to show that the concept of transmedia can be used in all subjects of the curriculum, horizontally and transversally, for a more holistic approach.
The project includes a number of products: first of all, a scientific research, under the direction of the University of Girona, in order to clarify the situation in the schools on how technology is used, in what way and in what extend. The research will be published in a scientific journal and will be presented in the last event of the project, our International Congress in which we will present also all our products.
The scientific journal "Communication Papers" will publish a special issue on our project with scientific articles, essays and reviews.
We will also create two decalogues for classroom use and for dissemination to our school networks that involve the proper use of Internet and the policy that covers the use of technology.
Four different seminars, concerning the aims of the project, will be offered to teachers and students and the participants will receive a Europass Mobility document for their participation.
A MOOC course will also be offered on line.
All our products will be uploaded to the Web page and Apps that we will create and they will be available for free under the Creative Commons license for everyone to use without problems with copyrights. We will adapt all the products to the needs of primary and secondary schools and in seven different languages.
Our proposal states that local communities, through students and parents, will benefit from the experience gained by the Organizations, as information providers. They will get a better knowledge of the law and policy concerning the use of digital material on the Internet, by improving habits and respecting legal procedure on how to use or not material made by others. Authorities will be more involved and the young, future labor community will have an ethics code when entering any working environment. Furthermore, the project will provide support in achieving a European area of lifelong learning through transmedia at the regional level by improving the relations of partnership at European level and by increasing the multilingual European society model in the local community. Last but not least, the schools will gain the access they need to engage and personally motivate each student in the learning process which only positive results may bring.