We Are Overcoming the Walls of Silence with ICT
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Aug 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The main objective of the project is to observe, collect, analyse, implement and spread innovative curricular and educational practices (teaching and learning) by mainly concentrating on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). The project aims to enhance special education teachers’ and students’ with deafness and hearing impairments’ (DHI) knowledge and motivation for language and social studies subjects in kindergarten, primary and secondary levels. The project also aims to educate and equip special education teachers and students with DHI with necessary ICT competences that they can meet the challenges of fast-paced globalization, improve their ICT skills, mobilize their education through cooperative work and conform to demanding high-tech environment of the future.
The project proposes a series of activities for schools focusing on curriculum development, teaching and learning materials, academic studies and analyses, and methods (observation, experimentation, colleague partner learning, interviewing, conferencing, surveys and publications) by promoting collaboration between schools and a university. The methodology is based on a case-study approach where the learners will learn by exploring the underlying principals of the studying subjects.
“Mobilities” are going to be used to enable partner organizations staff to visit educational settings within the partnership in order to extend their knowledge of the range of strategies available to support special education teachers and students with DHI through the use of ICT as a context for learning. The project desires and proposes long term outcomes as impacting the teachers to encourage ICT-based teaching and learning and build international partnership. Impacts for parents: to value the works of the students with DHI and teachers more highly, increase involvement in the schooling of their children, develop and improve their relations with the school and promotion of European identity. Finally for institutions, the impact is to develop international cooperation and examine of how different societies understand and value the education of student with deafness and hearing impairment.
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