LET'S CONQUER TECHNOLOGY FOR OUR STUDENTS

CONTEXTThis project was set up in our school to respond to an expansion of our exchanges, our openness to the outside world. For more than 25 years, we have been actors in a language exchange with the same Dutch-speaking school in Belgium. This exchange allows our students to make some progress in terms of their knowledge of the language but especially to a cultural and social openness. Participating in an Erasmus seemed to us a logical follow-up to this, a broader opening towards the knowledge of Europe and its inhabitants from all ways of life, social, cultural ... Choosing the theme of new technologies was also part of the project our school, which has chosen several years ago to offer a computer period per week to all students from the 4th year primary.This partnership involves 5 schools (BE, IT, RO, P, T). AIM: Improve the motivation of children but above all promote a broad intercultural dialogue OBJECTIVESThe objectives we are looking for are:1.Involve students in their learning and motivate them in their ownlearning2.Develop the transversal knowledge of each one, to bring them to a critical and creative thinking, to open them to the meeting of the others, of all the others, even different3.Develop the social and cultural acceptance of all students, understanding each other4.Develop communication skills, beyond the language barrier (students in our school do not know and do not learn English, the second language is Dutch)5.Help students build their European identityMAIN ACTIVITIESC1 - April 2018 - PT - Topic: Using online tools to create booktrailers; LiteratureC2 - May 2018 - RO - Topic: Using online tools to create quizzes; MathsC3 - October 2018 - IT - Topic: Using software to create fun lessons; Customs and traditionsC4 - February 2019 - B - Topic: Digital tools for artwork; Religious StudiesNUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS64 students aged 11 to 13 and spread across 5 schools with a target group of 250. They come from very diverse backgrounds - urban and rural - and have a variety of ethnicities and religions, making the project even more attractive.36 teachers in ICT, English, maths ...For our school, 12 students from 2 classes of 5th / 6th primary but also their classmates to the extent that they have benefited from the return of activities conducted during the different stays. And the headmaster of the school and 5 teachers (ICT, 1st and 2Nd grade, 5th and 6th grade) METHODOLOGYThe project has been designed to cover the following areas:A1. Project Management (Monitoring and Evaluation, Financial Management, Cooperation and Communication Strategies). Two transnational meetings took place, one at the beginning and one at the end of the project.A2. Implementation of activities (selection of participants, preparation and participation in exchanges)A3. Elaboration of the activities presented during the different meetingsA4. Dissemination of results in schools and non-schools, locally and beyondA 5. Follow-up by the implementation of activities using the new discovered methodsRESULTS AND IMPACTStudents improved their knowledge of digital tools and learned how to pass them on to their classmates upon return from each exchange.Another important point is the discovery of this enormous cultural and social diversity of Europe.Teachers had the opportunity to exchange their practices, to discover different methodologies, to improve their knowledge of English, and, like students, to become fully aware of European cultural diversity.The school was able to introduce itself elsewhere, let itself be discovered but also learned to manage, despite certain difficulties, a large-scale project. This project allowed the meeting of the schools involved in the exchange but also of schools nearer who were wondering about this type of experience, not yet common in our regions.The major results are to be found at the level of student involvement in motivating innovative projects and wider openness to others, differences.