INTEGRATING USEFUL MOBILE APPS IN SCHOOL PROCESS

CONTEXTThe project was initiated to respond our students’ needs to acquire and improve their know-how in terms ofdeveloping mobile applications, a skill which they will use even after the school years, no matter what careers they may choose to follow. We want our students to become the active users of the mobile developing tools instead of being a passive consumers of the of mobile apps.TARGET GROUPWe address our project to the students ( 400 students) of 15-18 years old, who are old enough to be a creative recipients of information given during the project. The students come from a different cultural background and many of them have not only to face some obstacles: economic, cultural, financial but also strive to overcame them. The participants of the project will be chosen from this target group based on their digital skills, language skills, school results. The students facing any mentioned obstacles will get an additional support. In the four planned meetings there will take part 110 students attending LTTAs – 22 per country with an additional number of 24-24 students from the host institution for whom a grant is not given but who will attend the activities.The project will also help the IT teachers who will improve their material base and ensure the sustainability of the project results. In the meetings there will be IT and English teachers involved – 8 teachers on every meeting, so a number of 32 teacher mobilities are involved.OBJECTIVESThe project’s aim is to give our teachers and students the necessary tools and framework for working together, sharing the ideas and good practices and also for learning how to develop the mobile applications.. By providing this framework, we intend to achieve a number of topic-related objectives as well as objectives related to the interculturall dialogue that the project presupposes:O1- at least seventy percent of the pupils in the target group will become familiar with the requirements of mobile app development.O2- at least fifty percent of pupils will contribute to the creation of new mobile apps actively.O3- at least ninety percent of pupils participating in TMs will improve digital skills.O4- at least eighty percent of students and teachers will develope knowledge of foreign cultures.O5- at least seventy percent of students and teachers will develope communication skills in English and other languages of the partners.O6- all students and teachers will develop tolerance, nutual respect and intercultural understanding.O7- all project team members and students will improve organizational, team work and data manipulation skills.MAIN ACTIVITIESTurkey – organises C1 (Joint Staff) – Nowember 2018 prepares project logo.Portugal - organises C2 - Mar 2019; prepares the Facebook page of project and manages it.Poland - organises and C3 - May 2019; coordinates valuation dissemination.Macedonia – organises C4 - Nov 2019; prepares eTwinning project account and manages it.Lithuania - organises C5 – April 2020); prepares and manages the website of the project.METHODOLOGYThe project involves 5 main stages: initiation (identification of needs and partners), planning (action plan, methodologies, resources), implementation (organization of activities before, during and after the transnational events), evaluation (throughout the entire project, in steps, but also at the end of the project), finalization (reporting, elaboration of impact study, sustainability plan).