Digital Classes; Here and There!

"Our project called; “Digital Classes; Here and There!” aimed to raise the digital qualifications of our teachers and students and to gain experience about preparing desirable classroom environments by using Web 2.0 tools and digital techniques. The ""information"" of society indirectly creates the need for students to acquire a kind of ""computer culture"" that will allow them to integrate better in today's society. This integration can mean more integrated citizenship (active citizenship) and, more generally, more meaningful participation in social life. The increasing complexity of the education system necessitates the introduction of ICT in education as it is believed to be able to make a substantial contribution to improving teaching and learning processes and, more generally, to create environments for the development of specific skills and the acquisition of new knowledge. Throughout our two-years project, 4 participant countries took place; Turkey, Portugal, Greece and Italy. The participants for the mobilities; both the teachers and the students were chosen from the ones who got the highest points from the criterias which weredecided by the Project Management Team in all schools. During the mobilities, students learnt Web 2.0 tools, Coding, mBots and the technologies that they would use in the classroom, and had chance to experience the things they had learnt throughout the workshops. Teachers also learnt how to integrate the technology to their lessons and the whole curriculum and school’s culture. Participants had great experience in raising students motivation and preparing attractive and rich classroom environments for them. Bullying has also been really important for our project as students learnt what it is, how to cope with it. Every activity was done with the games, digital tools, workshops. Dissemination activities were started at the time of project’s approval; and at the end of the project, they would go on with the aim of reaching more and more beneficiaries. Both participants shared their knowledge and experience with the school staff and the other organizations in their cities. Overall, the project aimed to raise the qualifications of the participants in the area of ICT, coding, foreign language and their career development while reduce all kinds of bullying. We obtained social, cultural and linguistic diversity. Students joined to the learning process with more enthusiasm by the help of the communication with their teachers who had the same digital language with them. Cooperation, self motivation and organizational environment were also be the needed competenses for the project. And owing to all these outcomes, the quality of the organisations was moved to European standards and the organizational capacity were increased."